Some recent astronomical work...

Started by blackcat, December 15, 2010, 05:05:18 PM

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mcmiller

#15
Wow, exceptional work and very inspirational for me as well. Could you tell me if the other objects like the plumes, lava ejections, astronauts and vehicles are composited in or rendered within TG?

(edit: nevermind the question, I just saw your answer in the Titan thread and figured there's a lot of additional work after a TG render.)

blackcat

Quote from: mcmiller on December 18, 2010, 03:26:20 PM
Wow, exceptional work and very inspirational for me as well. Could you tell me if the other objects like the plumes, lava ejections, astronauts and vehicles are composited in or rendered within TG?

(edit: nevermind the question, I just saw your answer in the Titan thread and figured there's a lot of additional work after a TG render.)

There are a couple of reasons for not even attempting such objects in TG. One is that in most cases TG simply can't do such things. Another is that while TG might be able to approximate some of those effects, approximations simply won't do.

moodflow

Very nice work indeed!  I've been playing with "orbiter" sim, and these images remind me of that.
http://www.moodflow.com
mood-inspiring images and music

blackcat

The research often takes longer than the art. I have to make these as accurate as possible, so among other things I talk to many of the scientists involved. For example, I did the illustration of the fountains of Enceladus in consultation with Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini imaging team.

blackcat

A study for a magazine illustration for an article about extrasolar planets.


max_thehitman



*BIG Applause*

That is some outstanding "spacey" artworks. I truly enjoyed every single one of them. Masterworks!
If you BlackCat are truly the great artist Ron Miller, then I must congratulate you on all your superb artworks.
I bought one of your books "Out of the Cradle" (first printed in 1984) way back in the late 1980´s when
I used to live in New York City and its been a real inspiration for many of my artworks depicting planetary
and space scenes. I am a big fan of yours and admire your work.
That particular book even came with your signiture written on it, which was a great surprise to me at the time
when I bought it in a second hand book store. Why would anyone want to sell the book, I have no idea, but I still
cherish it after all these years and its still in fine mint condition in my bookshelf. I also another book of yours
which I bought called "The Grand Tour:A traveller´s guide to the Solar system" (first printing in 1981). Its simply amazing!

I wish for you all the very best in whatever you do and what ever you create in your artworks.
You have opened the eyes of many young people and artists eyes with your unique vision and will always be an inspiration
for us all.

Cheers and thanks
MAX

max_thehitman



If any of you guys and gals out there want some really truly inspirational space-art books to
read and look at hundreds, upon hundreds, of truly exceptional artworks,
please get these books for your collection...
- http://www.amazon.com/Out-Cradle-Exploring-Frontiers-Beyond/dp/0894807706
- http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Tour-Travelers-Guide-System/dp/0761135472/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2

I bought these books when I was in my early teens back in the 1980´s (Jurassic era  ;D ) and they inspired
my vision of how things are out there as well as how great art is done and painted. They are simply amazing.

Marcos Silveira

#22
What annoys me the most is the fact that in an era man can take pics of the very borders of the universe, we can't take a high Def pic of Titan's surface!!!!
Instead, we end up with something like this:

Henry Blewer

http://flickr.com/photos/njeneb/
Forget Tuesday; It's just Monday spelled with a T

Marcos Silveira


blackcat

Gosh! Thanks for the great compliment!  :)

Quote from: max_thehitman on April 25, 2011, 04:40:34 PM


If any of you guys and gals out there want some really truly inspirational space-art books to
read and look at hundreds, upon hundreds, of truly exceptional artworks,
please get these books for your collection...
- http://www.amazon.com/Out-Cradle-Exploring-Frontiers-Beyond/dp/0894807706
- http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Tour-Travelers-Guide-System/dp/0761135472/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2

I bought these books when I was in my early teens back in the 1980´s (Jurassic era  ;D ) and they inspired
my vision of how things are out there as well as how great art is done and painted. They are simply amazing.


blackcat

#26
Sorry to not have been very active in the forums in recent months. I've been pretty much swamped with finishing up this project

http://www.the-exoplanets.com/

which should be available in about two weeks.

There are roughly 70 major astronomical illustrations in the app (including four 360-degree panoramas), all but a handful of which were created using TG2. I'll post a few of them in here later today.

Tangled-Universe


Henry Blewer

Awesome. I shared the website link on Facebook. I wish I had an IPad now...
http://flickr.com/photos/njeneb/
Forget Tuesday; It's just Monday spelled with a T

blackcat

#29
Here is one of the images from the app...

It depicts an extrasolar ice planet (one of Beta Hydrii's planets, in case you were wondering) whose sun is becoming a red giant. The increased radiation is melting the glaciers.