Author's Comments

First I modified Carl's Clockwork filter to eliminate the shadows. I used that to generate my diffuse map. Then I modified it more to give me a heightmap of the gears. Using these two images I used another modified version of jitspoe's Hard Shadows that includes my own custom ambient occlusion and Export HDR snippet. There I imported the compressed HDR map into my HDRI glow filter. I then framed it and tinted it orange and titled it.