3D Artist Research: Joel Erkkinen - Context

This is an artist named Joel Erkkinen has done this work on ArtStation. He has a varied amount of work on the site from Star Wars to Lego, and he tends to do a lot of his work on Maya, After Effects and Photoshop. The artist starts his work on Maya, then edits it with Photoshop and if needed he uses After Effects to add more detailed effects to the design. He has shown some of the Maya wire frames in his work and you can see the amount of detail that goes into the work that he produces.
In Maya Joel renders a lot of his work using Vray and mental ray to help give the work a lot of detail and depth as they are really good renderers. He adds some of the detail to the textures used in the work in Photoshop but other times in his work he doesn't use Photoshop at all but it produces the same quality of work.