About this picture...
Mountain was a project of mine, to possibly make a point and click explorable 'age'. I finished it quite a bit. I invested quite some time in building a stairs around the mountain thing. Which, in the animation, is pretty darn cool. Other things I experimented with here were the sky (clouds, esp), surrounding islands as filler, and the water (motion, reflection, refraction, opacity). Imo, one of the better looking water textures I'm managed to make.