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Now that school is out for summer I'm trying to go back and finish some of the projects that I didn't get the chance to finish during the semester.

Also, I just upgraded from Maya 2010 to 2012, this was the first project I've done on it.

I've added more detail to the vase and made lots of changes to the lighting. I also used one of the "substance shaders" for the ground, which is one of the new features of Maya 2012.

I also experimented with raytrace shadows on this render, and for the first time I tried messing with render passes. I did a depth, ambient occlusion, and beauty pass during the render. For the lighting I had two spot lights each emitting 15 shadow rays and 10,000 photons.

After it was all said and done, the render took about 11.5 hours. I'm positive I could have cut it down to about 1 or 2.. the photons were pretty redundant as I didn't get the caustic effects from the vase I was looking for, and I'm sure I could have knocked the shadow rays down to 2 or 3 and gotten the same outcome, but no regrets, it was a learning process.

Description
Now that school is out for summer I'm trying to go back and finish some of the projects that I didn't get the chance to finish during the semester.

Also, I just upgraded from Maya 2010 to 2012, this was the first project I've done on it.

I've added more detail to the vase and made lots of changes to the lighting. I also used one of the "substance shaders" for the ground, which is one of the new features of Maya 2012.

I also experimented with raytrace shadows on this render, and for the first time I tried messing with render passes. I did a depth, ambient occlusion, and beauty pass during the render. For the lighting I had two spot lights each emitting 15 shadow rays and 10,000 photons.

After it was all said and done, the render took about 11.5 hours. I'm positive I could have cut it down to about 1 or 2.. the photons were pretty redundant as I didn't get the caustic effects from the vase I was looking for, and I'm sure I could have knocked the shadow rays down to 2 or 3 and gotten the same outcome, but no regrets, it was a learning process.