I tried a different artstyle this time, hope you like it. I also have an animated sequence for this, but messed up the render settings for that unfortunately. I will re-render the animation and will add it later.
I will also share the water shader i made here on my new patreon page later this week. You can find the link on my instagram profile (will be free of course).
Rendered in Blender Cycles at 100 samples.
Wow that water is stunning!
Great work on it i imagine that must have taken quite a while to make and plan out the composition
thanks you! It started with a simple water shader i was working on. Thought it would be a good idea to test the shader in an actual scene, so i quickly made one. I got inspiration for the lighting by some images on pinterest and in general wanted to try a different artstyle this time.
Looks amazing, I can only dream to achieve water like that 
The water shader is actually really simple. I also followed a tutorial for the fake caustics, because i wanted to avoid real caustics to reduce render times. I just added some additional stuff to it to make it look a little more interesting. My goal was to keep the shader simple and efficient which i think i did pretty well. The final render took me under 20s on a rtx 3070.
experimenting with simple iridescence effects
Some progress on the water shader i used in this project. I aim to add more features to it before releasing it on my patron for download (for free of course).
Features i try to add before releasing it:
My goal is to not make this super realistic, but have a simple solution for adding good looking water in your scene without much effort.
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
You’re on the featured row! 
