There's some sort of texture on the bottle in the original photo, but it's a bit fuzzy and I can't tell exactly what it is. Besides, I had this texture map around already... Tequila? I thought it was gin or vodka; there's something in the glasses, and I assumed they were olives. There's not much to describe. I made the tablecloth texture first in Photoshop, then modelled the individual elements using splines and loft nurbs. The toughest part was the lighting. The original has really flat light; I decided not to go quite that extreme. I used 2 lights: One area light with soft shadows above and slightly in front of the bottle (I had it fall off quickly so as to put only a little light on the background), and a spot to give a bit of a halo on the background. I also placed panels with a lot of luminance on either side of the bottle to give some reflections in the glass. After that, it was just a matter of playing with reflection and refraction until I got what I wanted. I didn't really want to spend a lot of time on it or I would have worked on the texture a bit more and placed some black strips along the back of the bottle to create a little more contrast. Total time was about 2 1/2 hours.

Annie