Almost impossible to say how much I love this. Really, really beautiful.
Thank you very much for your breakdown, it explains a lot.
As I visited your website, I know now a bit more about your style and get the link of a very cool green guy called Rajak I saw here once before at ZBC 
It is a pleasure to see how you realize your visions and your style is a milestone in NPR CG imho.
Watching “Guam bay” I only thought that this amount of work is almost a bit wasted doing an animation and camera movements which could have been done in i.e. After Effects, 2D pictures, & puppet master.
I am very curious, if you’ll take your actual monster project a bit further into the third dimension?
Anyway, it is not surprising me, that your work is already honoured and you received some prices. Congratulations!!
Finally I would like to thank you for your PS brushes.
Drawing in PS felt always a bit odd for me. You brushes take at least away the pain of nice & quick blending. (Even in very slow CC2015 but ultra fast in CS5.5) Also the other brushes are feeling supernatural. Thanks so much!
If you are on a PC, I can really recommend the free verve painter app. It is king of blending. Just press SHIFT and your are smudging like in heaven, or STRG+SHIFT and blending is perfect. Really worth even it is alpha and has a lot of limitations still.
Maybe some possibilities are offering you can use for i.e. water color like texturing etc.? No one knows. 
Thanks for sharing your workflow and keep up the really good work.