Green Plate coral, sponges, and protruding rock structure on the right of the scene modeled in Cinema 4D then sculpted in ZBrush.

I designed 40 solidgrowth coral species for this scene, which later became the "asileFX | Coral Reef Collection." Tube worm textures designed in photoshop and used on vue grasses. All coral was designed from real coral, for the best realism. Used reference photographs from my reef tank. I created alternate shader materials for every coral, using the angle of incidence of the object to control the luminosity of the materials.

Scene is lit with 2 lights, distant and spot, using light gels and volumetrics. Light and atmospheric colors taken from eye dropper samples of ocean photographs. Used natural lighting setup.

Left Image: Complete Reef
Right Image: Preliminary test render of the larger coral scene.

Alligator snapping turtle, this is only a ZBrush snapshot, not a final render.

Initial model created in LW, UV mapping and model tweaks in Cinema 4D, sculpted and colorized in ZBrush.

Colorized texture map exported from zbrush and edited in photoshop.

One procedural terrain creating rivers with functions.
Created in the Vue 8 Terrain Workshop training.

Left Image: River Close-up
Right Image: High altitude render of river cutting through the terrain.

Created initially with a procedural terrain function and one procedural terrain. The terrain was then broken down into 3 terrains and rendered as plates. Composited in photoshop.

Left image: Full scene
Right Image: Alternate crop, closer to original image scale.

Leaf textures created from scanned leaves and edited in photoshop. Bark from photographic seamless textures.

Tree trunk exported from Vue into Cinema 4D. I added leaves to the tree with Mograph, also created a wind systems for them.

Custom procedural terrain, materials, and spectral cloud layer.

This shot was created as part of a Vue 8 xStream in Cinema 4D 30 minute demo for e-on and maxon.

Pyramids modeled and textured with procedural and image based textures in Cinema 4D, rendered with black matte. Also used cinema objects for the ground objects. Pyramids were modeled from a reference photograph of the shown buildings.

Models were exported into vue. Used xstream for cameras and lighting, plus vue sync. All other work made with vue standalone.

Populated grass ecosystems on the ground objects and then painted in the trees.

I rendered several plates from vue, some with the buildings and some without. Then composited it all together along with dozens of painted layers in Photoshop. Online reduced-scale version of this image looks rather poor compared to the original 2k.