This is straight render right out of 3ds Max. Photoshop was used to create the textures. I created this gate for use with the Stargate SG1 Trading Card Game cards, website, and advertising since MGM didn't give us much to work with in the way of original assets. This gate has an extreme attention to detail. Along with the designer and the other artist Steve Thoma (who contributed to the glyphs to this model), we figured out the order and orientation of all of the symbols on the gate from screenshots from the shows.