Sean Marino fires up Photoshop with nDo, the normal map plugin for Photoshop for this quick tutorial on how to create a custom ambient occlusion map using an nDo normal map.
Creating AO From nDo Normal Map from Sean Marino on Vimeo.
nDo is a melting pot of normal creation techniques. Sculpt using your custom brushes, create volumes from selections, paths or layers, apply filters, generate complexly multifaceted normal maps from height or photographs, rotate and transform without biasing normal
