hi prudence, nice to read you again and thank you so much for your a+, this image was made using only Maya, this image like the original-click to see the first post- are full 3d rendered one pass with no post (no photoshop or something like that)
the waves are polygons, there are software particles and hardware particles in the render, I used some polygons to get the ice crystal look in the splash -check it in the first posted image with other values on the motion blur setting-the sky was made with volumetric shaders and one light generating coustics+final gather for the sun, the mountains are polygons shaded using maya tools, the deep of field are from the camera settings + camera motion blur, the image was rendered using obviously the best, obviously mentalray
with all the values of quality at the top, in the greenpeace version the eagle and the orca are 3d too, the nvidia engine of the car was made in maya too, I posted different versions based on the main concept but my favorite is this one (headache to create it).
my working set:
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