Things are getting real! Nice submissions here. 
Kept it to a single plain and single material for the beach. The node setup got a bit out of hand as a result… The only grouped bit is for the waves (also used for displacement bake)
I used the “sunrise” HDRI that comes with blender.
really nice beach ball scenes
I thought the original scene was a beach ball in water. So, I went with water instead of sand. It looks like a lot of you did as well. I see some really nice work out there. Modeling water was the most interesting part of this exercise - especially because I’ve never done water before.
You mud ground is excellent!
My piece of beach, not perfect but had a lot of fun employing the techniques taught in this section of the course.
Good lecture thanks. Trouble with the lighting on this to get the water blue. Used another colour ramp instead of the RGB node.
I also used two vertex groups to control different displacements for the water and sand sections. Amazing how much you can get out of Blender without using a texture (for the beach part)!
I really like the water to beach transition. Maybe you’ve rendered in eevee …
But the ball casting shadow could use some rework.
Also, the ball is probably wet. And therefore shiny and sun reflective …
Yeah I felt the ball was a bit off
Yeah I used eevee as well
Nice foreground to background integration.
Beautifull water reflection.
Great water beach transition.
love the reflection on the water.
Very nice results!
Toome, it looks like a space scene. Blue sky, water not recognizable.
I spent a while putting some of the different parts I’ve learned in the course together for this one, and I really like how it turned out. I added a water plane to continue on from the wet sand, as I didn’t realise the wet sand was supposed to become water! Oops!
I used Cycles with the Nishita sky texture for the rendering.
