Made for a friend who plays a free online Star Wars game, I used my recent skills with converting 2D concepts into Inkscape/Illustrator vector files and importing them into Blender where I can make them into 3D. The textures and such are not that important, and not the purpose for me showing this... but rather that because most of this was done in vector line art, the conversion to a 3D game medal took less than an hour and most of that was spent just using textures from an online texture dump.
While I first learned to do this in Photoshop -> Illustrator -> Blender, I decided to delve into GIMP and Inkscape which both have all of the tools you would need to do something like this. Really am surprised there is no single tutorial I found on this site or online in general that takes the idea from Raster to Blender. I'm sure it may be a cool thing for more professional instructors here to add to the site.
