Creating The Water

This was my attempt at creating water for the first time, following this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSgzJI6p3g

I learnt more about the materials used in Maya, helping me experiment a bit more with textures and how they look.

However my first attempt, rather than looking like water, actually looks quite similar to snow. I decided to change the texture, to one that looked less like snow and more like water.

This texture worked a lot better than the previous one had, yet it still wasn't that convincing enough. There was no reflection of the cube in the water.

For some unknown reason the reflection had not shown in the previous 2 renders, even though I had followed the tutorial precisely. Nevertheless, it has greatly improved. It looks more convincing now.

I do feel I could improve more though.