This image started as a simple scene to display the toad model but quickly turned into a project of it's own. The toad was modeled in 3ds max then detailed and textured in ZBrush. The ground was modeled in 3ds max and the displacement was created using the some height maps created from a bump map that accompanied the texture and using them as masks to detail in ZBrush. The water was modeled in 3ds max and detailed in ZBrush then taken back to 3ds max to touch up the topology. The tree shadow is a plane with a diffuse map and alpha placed above the scene. The rendering was done with VRay and Photoshop was used to adjust the levels and add a slight bloom effect.