my second year studio project which i took initiative to revive it and rendered it with vray…
its very hard to achieve a satisfying renders…
C&C appreciated
Re: My old 2nd year project
hi aufi.
how did you do the water?. is it a mesh?
it looks very well. perhaps you should have added some reflection layers to the leaves.
Re: My old 2nd year project
the idea is to create a scene during evening right in the moment the sun sets…but it is very hard to achieve such ambience… lot of experimenting have to be done…
i didnt use HDRi for this one…and maybe thats the problem…i couldnt find good HDR image that is free 
maybe i could give it another try…thx for commenting
arqestevez1: ive done it using a noise map on vray and enlarge it, very large…and then apply it to displacement map…something like this
http://aufialwi.blogspot.com/2009/08/tutorial-simple-step-to-create-water-in.html#more
this one took about more than 5 hour to complete using amd platform amd athlon 64 x2 and 2 gb of ram … :‘( :’(