This image just happened. I had some free (few) minutes to work in another, more complex project, and I was building this island for it. I made a test render and I liked it. This is probably my simplest image to date. Even the atmosphere is simple. Even the render settings are simple and not as high as i usually use. Maybe too simple and not what the people expect from me... Anyway... The scene where this island will be used should be ready in 2 or 3 days, although just 2 or 3 hours of work ("real life" doesnt give me much time...). I thought about putting a character on the beach, as if stranded. I decided not to do it, to enhance the mistery and create questions in the minds of people ("where is the guy? what's his story?"). Thanks for watching! Have to rush now for "real life" appointments, sorry for the overdue comments! This is a direct render, no postwork (no time for it!) EDIT: Some technical stuff: --------------------------- Water is a procedural terrain. The waves are really geometry, created with "chipped" noise (Vue has a specific noise node for "ocean" but I think it's less realistic than what I do). The water is just Vue's default water (with higher transparency decay than standard), without bump map. For the foam i didn't have time for anything fancy so I just duplicated the terrain, shrank it vertically, adjusted it to the water level, applied a foam texture and presto! Same for the foams in the rocks. The rocks are just some standard terrains, textured with a mixture of rock and grass (mixture is made with a standard Vue fractal function). If anyone wants some specific texture or even the chipped noise parameters, I'm happy to give it.