I did an open test for a studio. 99% of the work was done in Blender. Post-processing in Photoshop (very little). Almost everything was done under subdivision, something with chamfers. The deer, raven, partially candles were done with a sculpt in bledner. No textures, just the map, easel and book (there's a drawing there). Everything else was done with the usual material setup. Did it with no polygon limitations and no simplification. Scene 2k tris, without skulp - 810k.