I like your ‘Rocky’ mesh. Good job!
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First time I’m sharing something, this far into the course, but I was just so happy with how this one turned out! 
Also, I must have spent at least 3 hours on this 
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For those who missed it, there is a thread where Michael answers this, but you need the following setting on your material to follow along in the lecture:
Not happy with my result… but it was a great learning experience.
Computer didn’t like this challenge either…
I found it is a great way to preview displacements but a painful way to do materials. The Cycles-heavy challenges are incredibly informative but unfortunately quite taxing on my system so I find myself giving up before I’m really happy with the result. I will use this as a way to pre-view displacements before baking them and then doing materials in Eevee. This is not a workflow I would like to spend too much time on as the feed-back cycle becomes too frustratingly slow very quickly.
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I didn’t do much with the background. But, this was a fun exercise. I see lots of potential. You will notice a light glare in the middle of the water. I didn’t bother to making to many changes. I was surprised I got this good of a shot.
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Wow, nice rock formations. Good level of details - good hardware too 
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Thanks. Lol - my system’s not as good as you might think. Did it lower detail then ramped it up for the final render. That said it didn’t take too long to render.
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Loved this challenge too, I’m inspired to go back and start refining the environment and terrain for my bridge scene now.
Base Mesh and Shader:
Displaced/Rendered:
Adding Some Volumetrics for Grins:
Ship It!
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Very nice ‘world’ now you will need to put something in it! lol A boat. A sea monster. Mountaineers.
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I’m definitely thinking a Viking longboat, it’s got that sort of feel!
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WOW! This look awesome! Good job 
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