I created the sea and the sky this week. I followed instructional video on Youtube, which were really helpful.
For the sea, I created a plane, assigned new material and added noise to the bump mapping, adjusted the attributes.
Create clouds
Add 3D Container
Maya ran really slow when I was trying to have a preview of the rendering, there was too much things to calculate. I tried several ways to make it faster. However, those didn’t really help. Anyway, the situation became better after I created the maya fluid and rendered it out.
Create New Cache – Maya Fluid
Add lights
I added a skydome light and two directional lights from behind and the front.
A short demo at this stage