I jokingly keep telling myself I'm going to keep on trying to do these things until I die. This is part of my entry for the ArenaNet Internship Class of 2013 [link]. I did an entry last year [link], and as it was my first normal mapped character ever however it was pretty bad. I decided to do the same character to take what I've learned and re-apply it into a much better piece in the end.
Since the concept armor they gave us was light armor I though it would be cool to do a little beauty shot with one of the scholarly professions (elementalist, mesmer, & necromancer) I decided to do a mesmer because it's a simpler effect and because I'm obsessed with them. Rendered in 3ds Max with XoluilShader2