As you can see there were A LOT of color correcting layers in my psd file


There were lots of tries and experiments on how different colors may play along with one another and balancing on the edge of not burning colors out. When I was happy with all that I merged down the layers and of course applied a sin of "sharpen” at the end! :)

Conclusion

Overall I must say that such workflow is extremely efficient and fast. It took me 4 hours of pure work in both 3ds max and Photoshop to complete this guy. As long as you have a clear idea of what you want to do, the decisions in modeling and speed come naturally. Also I must point out that using long render times and fancy 3 rd party renderers aren't necessary to create a cool looking image.