Well, in honor of today, December 7th, I decided to post my quick take on that fateful day in world history...
8 minutes to download, drop into SolidWorks, max out the image quality (tessellation) and pop into KeyShot with the importer.
20 minutes on the web searching for underwater stuff.
4 minutes on CG Textures downloading mud and stuff.
32 minutes putting it all together in KeyShot. I added a ground plane (tilted) with "mud" texture and a "wavy" normal map. Also added in a ground plane, but moved up above the model, and with "wavy glass" material. Simple custom HDR. 10 second render.
30 minutes in Photoshop.
Total, 102 minutes +-.
For my Uncle Bill, and all who were at Pearl that day, we will never forget!
Bill G