Old version here:
http://nsae01.casimages.net/img/2013/07/12/130712095226355115.jpg

Well, practicing with Blender 3D...

The letters have been made with Blender (internal). Shadows on the water and some tweaks with GIMP. The original photograph of the iceberg I borrowed it from there ... I hope the owner does not mind that.

For the letters I've had to mix two textures of ice and snow, so I had to read and learn something about the node editor, which I had been trying to avoid for now

That's awesome, YAFU!

Sweeeet.

Wow, awesome work! Gotta admire anybody who can make any sense at all out of Blender. I tried. Boggles my brain.

Thank you all!

@sb158, The first time I had tried just reading some text tutorials. My head almost exploded and it did not help much. The best way to learn blender is following the video tutorials out there on YouTube and endlessly repeating everything they do in those videos, even if you do not understand much what you are doing.

Thanks K1TesseraEna!

In addition to the shadows I needed to have some transparency in the water so you can see letters a little below water. So the first thing that occurred to me is to add the photography that I had downloaded as a mesh plane (images as planes addon), and curving softly from the intersection of the iceberg and water:


In this way I was able to configure some transparency and distortion properties in water, and dip a bit the letters in the plane (water). As you can see I had shadows, but I could not make them have a bluish color and fit better with the water without having to change the lighting and other things that I did not want to change. So I decided to do the render without the shadow. I admit that I gave up too quickly in trying to do something better with the shadows in Blender, perhaps also with the node editor would have done something better. Later I'll try to do better from Blender while I learn the node editor and composer.

Awesome job, I like how the letters actually feel as though they are bobbing about on the water.

Very cool, YAFU!

Nice work and a good job on the lighting, the way it falls on the letters looks just right.

Cool Love the way the letters look just like icebergs

YAFU. Congrats. Perfect start on your Blendercareer.

Here is one small tutorial how you get your cube bobbling on top the wave.
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/22765
I try to do this few months ago with the ocean but this dont work for me. Try this.

Add one plane with Shift+A. Subdevide 4-5 times.



Add Wavemodifier.



Add one Cube with Shift+A. Subdevide one time. Select the middle one of vertex and press tab.


With Shift down you select the wave and select 3 vertex and press Ctrl+P. You have now connected 3+1 vertexes.


Play your project with Alt+A.

Good Luck.

Thanks you people!

@Lurifax73: Thanks, it's interesting this modifier. I still can not find how to make the letters look like floating with the motion of the waves . Anyway I applied the modifier to the plane and running the animation is very funny to see how the waves interact with the static letters. I will keep experimenting.

Hi YAFU.
Text is not a mesh, you can not do nothing but typ letters. You need to convert the text to mesh with Alt+C

Thanks Lurifax73, I know that.
My problem is that you have added the cube in Edit Mode when the plane was already there, so you can select vertex of the cube and the plane at the same time. I just find a way to do this by selecting the plane and a letter and join with Ctrl+J. Then in Edit Mode select the vertex and then parent them. And then again separated letter and the plane with P (Separate). I know what I've done is something cluttered and must be a better way to do it. It had never before needed to send two separate objects to Edit Mode at the same time

EDIT:
You forget what I had said, I think I understand now. In object mode I must first select the cube and then select the plane with shift key, and then go to edit mode. So in this way the vertex from both objects are parented.

Perfect. Yes there is more than one metode to use. Look at my blend file and compere with yours.

Yes you can select more than one object in edit mode if you select the first one and then press Shift and select the other one. As I mention before. If you select a vertex and press Tab you can work on something els and the first one still selected when you go back to edit mode again. Thats why 3+1 vertexes select when you press Ctrl+P because the single one is hiding (selected) behind Tab. Blender dont let you select 1+1 or 2+3. Only 3+1 work and not 3 on the cube and 1 on the wave. Dont work.

http://www.pasteall.org/blend/22782