I got to spend a little time with 1.5 this weekend, It is pretty sweet, very smooth and polished. 
Anyways dof is maybe a little over done in the render but the physical camera is a joy to work with. The new AA filter does a nice job too.
Coral is displacement on a onyx tree trunk. 
nice eric, it needs some bubbles to finish it off
Thats pretty cool
Mabye add some greenery or some murky-ness to the water?
The coral looks quite convincing.
Heh, I had pretty much figured I wasn’t going to get any comments, Thanks!
It could use some floaties and bubbles, maybe the sort of heat distortion you get in really clear salt water. I want to add a nice fluorescent sea anemone, be fun to animate it too. I wish vray fur had a choice of end profiles.
you can add a map into the thickness to get some difference in vrayfur
yeah the new bitmap support is great but I wish the end of the hair could be rounded instead of just flat like it is now. When fur first came out it had a tapered end I think there is still a spinner to control it but it is greyed out.
a hair profile map option would be good…