Well, this is a project of an origami-ish shuttle. The background was created by depth mapping a gradient (one of the presets: blue, green, orange, silver) in a chain formation then flipping it horizontally, and changing the lighting, opacity, bump, etc. to get the affect of a really oddly colored mountain range with snow on the peaks and running down the sides. And since flipping the depth map horizontally left some transparent space, the background was made black. The origami shuttle was made by using two more crazy gradient patterns on separate layers and depth mapping both of those to a two-sided plane. One of the two-sided planes was placed perpendicularly to the other one to resemble a sort of shuttle/space ship. Then, using the move tool, the origami-shuttle was made to come closer to the viewer then flip around and travel away in a frame animaiton.
This project is that of a fish being sucked into the watery depths... of a lake / lagoon kinda thing. Using more gradients, sinetgubg resembling a mountain range around a lake was created by putting a larger density of gradients around a central circular portion. That was depth mapped to a one sided plane and rotated so that the lake surface was facing away from the viewer. The light intensity, angle, opacity, and reflectiveness of the "water surface" was changed to resemble the rippling water far away from the fish. To create the fish, a picture of a fish was found and the fish itself was selected from the image. Half-tone patterns were put on the fish to make in a pink and white polka-dotted fish. That was created into a postcard and exported into the other Photoshop document, where it was animated down in a sucking motion / elliptical motion down to the depths of the lake / lagoon.