Thanks to everyone who has helped me with suggestions so far. In my scene above, I need to loop the water and sky animation. Not sure how to do this so if anyone has some suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. Also please feel free to critique the scene. Since this is my first real scene I can use all the help I can get :) I plan to tweak the snow on the rocks - fyi.

Thanks

for the water you can render the animation, and then put a revese of it on the end so it can loop, but that might look strage

I agree - that might look strange. How about if I put a half dome over the scene and pic a sky picture inside and revolve it. That way in a 360 degree rotation it should look ok...right. But the water is going to be tough - I still can't figure that out.

do kind of the same thing as you did with the sky. use a vey large cylender with theh water on it and rotate it 360 in the direction you want. you have to make the cylender large enough that it dosent look curved where you see it