Maya water blobs - Thaw penultimate shot

Final set up and adjustments to the water shader for the penultimate shot...

Panels below show the perspective space, water droplets and rendered images...

Water shaders in Maya and Lattice Deformers

Testing water shaders on a simple sphere...
This link was great http://mentalraytips.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/nice-water-with-miamaterial-arch.html
Using a Mental Ray mia_material_x > presets > water and setting the transparency to 1, created a great water effect

I wanted the water droplet to appear realistic in it's shape and was deformed by the leaves...

This is a great link http://mayazest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/slow-motion-rain-drops-in-maya-vray.html
on how to simply deform spheres using a lattice, so that the droplet would 'hang' and be deformed by the leaves,

I realised that I could insert the poppy as a 3D object, which could look great with camera movement and water reflection...

Simple image, with a background plane, a 3D plant, water blobs and a 3D poppy set inside water.
This is with one directional light only...just placed for the purposes of a quick render
...more reflective, back light and light from underneath to be added...

Another couple of links that were useful too

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Maya/files/GUID-E092CABE-4709-469A-82CF-44B6C8F97A24-htm.html

http://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40768