http://www.youtube.com/user/FINALFAN...34/wc0ilSksWBQ

Skip to 2:30 for the actual armor making.

In short, each piece has to be made separately in photoshop and then built as a computer sculpture and detailed to meet FF standards.

See here, also at 2:30, if you want to see what goes into the sculpture model making:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FINALFAN...38/DEybd106bBU