Alien Eve revisited

Mahnmut · February 11, 2016, 01:42:34 PM

Hi together.
I simply wanted to make a higher resolution render of an old project from 2010 which I rendered with the free version back then.
Since I couldn´t find the file, I had to reconstruct it from scratch. There are some details I liked better in the original,
some parts I think I could improve.
What do you think?

Original 2010:

New 2016:

Full size:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1442/24867957552_f6f429e8d5_o_d.jpg

Plants are the same used here, made by me with ng-plant:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4070/4624773990_aca21fcf78_o_d.jpg

Cheers,
J

archonforest · February 11, 2016, 01:45:03 PM

I like the second one a lot!

AP · February 11, 2016, 02:21:43 PM

That is a rather wild exoplanet. Nice bioluminescence. It has a mystery and errieness to it. The ground looks almost like some type of slime or oily compared to the older version.

bobbystahr · February 11, 2016, 05:32:21 PM

Full marks on the 2016 version....

masonspappy · February 11, 2016, 06:16:57 PM

Like the 2nd image - very nice. Is it possible to throw some greenish glow on the ground around the glowing plants?

Dune · February 12, 2016, 03:10:17 AM

Strange and interesting, a bit Japanese in mood.

TheBadger · February 12, 2016, 05:44:05 AM

2nd is great.

Got the original image you mentioned in OP to compare to? Or gone with the file?

Mahnmut · February 12, 2016, 05:52:20 PM

Thanks to all of you for your kind comments!

@Masonspappy:
It seems a little glow happened in the old version, not sure why it didn´t in the new one. Maybe I got a higher luminosity value with a darker luminosity colour back then, will try that after my holiday, that is in march.

@ Badger:
The first image in this thread ist the original (v1.5 as I called it in 2010).
here is the original thread:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1442/24867957552_f6f429e8d5_o_d.jpg

I don´t know what OP means here.

Ok, more adjustments in two weeks, tomorrow I am going on holidays no computer there!

Cheers,
J

AP · February 12, 2016, 06:21:20 PM

OP means Original Post.

TheBadger · February 12, 2016, 11:20:06 PM

Ahh sorry, I just thought they were two views of the same file. I missed the date. Thanks. The one thing I think that is nice in the first is the soft blue and the nebula. If you could add that to the new one but keep pretty much everything else somehow, that may be nice.

I also like the softness of the green star in the 1st image a lot. But everything else looks better in the new version, to me.