If you're just after normals and don't need a proper height map, use the workbench renderer with a normal matcap and an orthographic camera. lots of floaters. float all the things #blender #b3d
The nice thing about workbench is how easy it is to just render out a few matcaps (with screen space cavity pass). You can mix em up in your image editor and use it as a base for painting semi-oldschool textures. 
This technique is great because after reducing the color count you can spend just a few minutes tightening up the shapes and carving the forms and you can get something pretty nice in not much time.
Chunky texture + normal map + some vaseline on the lens
2 textures and about 35 triangles :P
I should make a shock-like
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