This guide was made for entry: Aurum In Contest: idioms 2
step 1 of 3
Firstly painted a terrain and textured it with a soil material.
step 2 of 3
Created an organic boolean and duplicated it several times before adding a gold texture to it.
step 3 of 3
Placed the golden boolean on the terrain and added a surface sea textured with the "DLD Waters" Gentle Ripple material. Final image rendered with a super anti-aliasing and contrast was added in photoshop CS4.