This promotional image is created under the hood of Urban Monk, an expanding cgi studio located in Manly, Australia that I work for. Octopus creature modeled in zbrush , rendered in 3ds max, and composited in photoshop. Photoshop was the main workhorse behind this image as it includes loads of compositing and digital painting techniques (water splashes, some waves) I was unsure where to post it, but, the subject, octopus is 3d, that\'s why I chose 3d section. Background image author, flicker user snuff73.
Awesome job on sculpting the octopus and then composing it. The sense of scale is epic, and the water
effects are flawless. Amazing work!!
A giant squid would be better than the Octopus..
Seriously, though, this is amazing. Did you use MentalRay, VRay, or another render engine that I am unaware of for Max?