say-cheeseOver at 3dm3, Vaibhav Shah has a great making-of for an image called “Say Cheese”, built with Maya, zbrush, mental-ray, and Photoshop.

I was so inspired with water tanks in childhood. Whenever I’ve visit fisheries and aquariums, I always found some attraction towards one tank which was dirtier and poor a fish try to accommodate in that. I’ve always spend time to observe water movement and its whirl effects. So I approached to make cool dirty flooded water bathroom, and fish tries to survive there in between of leaked water pipes. Even leaked pipe blows air into water which makes sweetie bubbles. The idea clicked me once and started scribbles for making ahead.

Not only does he show the process used to conceptualize and create the image, but some interesting charts showing how long the various stages took.

via Making of Say Cheese – Community for CG Artists.