Long time no see- some astro fantasy

[Mahnmut]

Yes,
those are the ones I meant, and strangely organic is what I had in mind. First thing I tried was a population of eyeballs...
So, if I want subsurface scattering in TG that is the glass shader using PT, right? And your "flesh" is basically a reddish glass with a <1 coverage skin tone on top (plus a lot of detail and images I will probably not need at first for my strangely organic landscapes?
Much to try.
The great thing with surrealism is, it can be a bit off...
For now I make soem higher Quality renders of teh pics above after upgrading to tg4 creative.
Cheers!
By the way, I forgot how to embed a linked picture into a post...
https://flic.kr/p/2nKAQUB

[Hannes]

So, if I want subsurface scattering in TG that is the glass shader using PT, right? And your "flesh" is basically a reddish glass with a <1 coverage skin tone on top

Basically  that's it, yes. But it only works with path tracing.

By the way, I forgot how to embed a linked picture into a post...

Below the post you want to respond to, hit "Reply", and you'll see "Attachment and other options" below the field that's meant for posting answers.There you can attach images.

[Mahnmut]

Thanks again!
I did not mean to belittle your achievement, just to state what it does in a way I can comprehend.
one of the things I like most about TG is that one can create something original while incorporating other peoples creations, like seeing my starfield in someone elses sky or trying to use your skinshader on a landscape.
concerning embedded pictures I meant how to make a picture that has na url for example at flickr show up in the text directly, as direct upload does not work with bigger tiffs.

[Hannes]

I did not mean to belittle your achievement, just to state what it does in a way I can comprehend.

No problem! I didn't take it like that.

one of the things I like most about TG is that one can create something original while incorporating other peoples creations

Yes, that's really cool!!

concerning embedded pictures I meant how to make a picture that has na url for example at flickr show up in the text directly

Ah OK. Which makes perfectly sense, since you already attached images to your posts

[Mahnmut]

Rendered bigger and upscaled with gigapixel AI,
interestingly there is a number written on on of the populated corals
bleached4big0 by JT, on Flickr
Cheers,
J

[Dune]

  Probably a scanned specimen from a collection. Interesting.

[Hannes]

Cool!
Gigapixel AI is really cool!!! Since I have it, I upscaled a lot of older images of mine, that were smaller than Full HD. 

[Mahnmut]

Ok, maybe not so much an astro-fantasy, rather ophthalmo-fantasy,
but same level of surrealism.
Inspired by Hannes´ Old man and Dunes procedural eyes...

Not so happy with the clouds yet, and I could not achieve a convincing iris-fractal (tried stretching it vertically in the hope that it would appear radial on a sphere, but no luck yet.) Each eye is two spheres, the inner one slightly flattened with iris and pupil layers restricted by slope.
Looking up!
LookingUP by JT, on Flickr

[Hannes]

Weird! And cool!!

[Stormlord]

Total durchgeknallt!

Absolutely overkill....
Aber so much over.... pretty cool !

STORMLORD

[Dune]

Great!

[Mahnmut]

Hi again, invested 10 minutes in better easy clouds and some hours in the iris fractal.
At last I could build on dandelOs work again:
https://planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,15364.msg149478/topicseen.html#msg149478
Thanks in absentia!

LookingUp2 by JT, on Flickr

[Dune]

Very nice update! That Dandel0-method is indeed very handy.

[pixelpusher636]

Rendered bigger and upscaled with gigapixel AI,
interestingly there is a number written on on of the populated corals
bleached4big0 by JT, on Flickr
Cheers,
J

Looks like a date maybe. 4.5.20

[Mahnmut]

Thanks Dune!
I just realized that the polyspheres subdivisions show quite clearly here, but I like it as it is. The other kind of sphere di not work at all with the method.
Pixelpusher, that date would be astonishingly recent. Maybe, maybe only a catalog number, what surprised me most was the quality of the render (even before upscaling), because in the earlier smaller versions I simply had not noticed that there was a number at all.

What do you think of the renders beside that?