Here is the rough concept and reference sheet for my 3D Environments final. It is basically a castle in the sky that belongs to the Japanese thunder god Raijin. It's a floating castle that actually creates lightning and thunder(instead of the god) by some machine hidden underneath the main cloud which is actually made out of metal. I wanted to incorporate some steampunk elements in this which is actually where I got the idea for making a castle on a 'cloud'
This little exercise for my 3D Environments class was my first time using Zbrush and baking normals and all that jazz. I gotta say, I really love Zbrush now and I am definitely going to keep using it. Here is the model in Maya with the normal map, the texture is still a WIP so bear that in mind and some screen grabs of the sculpt