Graet White

2006 Project
I love that predator, i think is one of the most beautiful animal on the earth, is elegant and powerful.
The skin of white shark in the water, take the colour by all the ambient, but when he comes in ours element (is the only kind of shark that comes out of water with all the body), the skin become dark and shine.
I wanted to make an image that take this two situation at the same time, with a camera point of view.
the water, is a Brazil material (BRAZIL GLASS) with 1.333 IOR and with a little green colour.

All the underwater effect (Ray, DOF, plancton particle, fog etc..) are made in Combustion using the RPF file format from 3DS MAX.

I modelled al with Edit Poly for the Shark, for the water I used the Paint modifier to draw the wave around the shark and I used the BLOBMESH to make the bubble of the water.

The Caustic Effect is a Light with a MASK, I used a HDR map for the reflection of the out water skin.