Explorer Week 2

So I found a few tutorials. The water ones were one how to make your own water using soft bodies and turbulance (http://www.3d-palace.com/forum/written-tutorials/3036-tutorial-maya-how-create-animated-water.html), the other was on how to make a water shader in 3dmax (http://www.scribd.com/doc/501968/Water-Tutorial) so I just followed it the best I could with maya. The grass Tutorial I found, which is really sweet! (http://www.3dlessons.com/tutorials/Realistic-Grass-in-Maya-65776.html) and unfortunatly I haven't finished because basically he starts with paint effects but then he goes into the alot of fun options. So I've been playing with all of those. Other than that I've been playing around with a layout for my back yard/ garden scene.

Media Design Wed 8AM

These are my reference photos for my out side 3d model.
I've decided that I want to do a garden type landscape, with a small building in the background. Other than that I've been looking up tutorials on how to do mental ray and out side lighting.

For the bike I went ahead and fixed the size of the tires to make it look like it won't rub, as well as added fractual to some of my textures to make them not look so even.

With the wall I was just working on the modeling :( , I added a bump to this image. I'm experimenting with a displacement map to see if this I can better control where the bricks start wearing down and stuff.