As you can tell from this image I have been inspired by the work that wetbanana has done recently. This is an early draft of the scene, the only thing that will for sure stay the same is the terrain. Everything else: trees, sky, planets, etc. will be tweaked and worked on in future version. The main planet is textured with nvseal's planetary clouds and surface. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Majestic-WIP-152829847
This is a well-worked version - the large planet is superb looking - nice work!
Really nice looking space scene. I may try one someday.
very Nice ;D! it is always a complement when other artists get inspiration from my art cheers man:)
now I would change the vegetation or maybe add a broadleaf or a small conifer species amongst the tall Serbians^^
I also suggest you run the image through an hdri program such as photomatix and apply some tone mapping to get the trees to glow (they are to dark at the moment. keep the planets (THEY ARE PERFECT!) maybe get em glowing abit in PS and to top it all off add a flock of birds or a distant space cruiser;)!
Thanks everybody!
I like it very much, great mood in this. I don't find the trees too dark.
Great use of tree pops - did they really push up render time?
Great scene, it is definitely majestic. Love the planets.
I love the use of a forest and then the planets in the background, make's me wish I could sit there for a while.
Nice one,
Glen
As far as I know the trees don't have too big of an impact on the scene. Most of the render time is due to the large percentage of the scene covered by water and by the surface detail and atmospheres of the background planets (especially the big one)...but then again I haven't done any full resolution crop renders of the same area with and without the trees so I cannot be certain in my assessment ;)
A bit of an update on this one. The crop focuses on the background planets just to get a better glimpse of the detail. I discovered that most of my render time on the planets was due to an extra planet, with the same position as the big, that for some reason was active and causing lag due to extra calculations.
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This looks like a whole new scene. Nice work. It might be interesting to give the larger planet some color variation for it's clouds.
i love the color spectrum and lighting in both. -Devin
Nice scene , Darthvader1.
Kadri.
A bit of an update on the foreground. I've completely redone the trees, replacing the firs with some of Walli's pines. However I'm not happy with them...there is just something that doesn't seem right about them. Ideas anybody?
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I would use Walli's pines and the Grand Fir mixed together in clumps. Marc Gebhart's pines also look very nice. Open up some pars of the shore for grasses and/or shrubs. The differing vegetation and breakups will look more natural.
More variation in the vegetation will definitely help, unfortunately I don't know think adding bushes and grasses would help much since the shore line is so far away from the camera...but I will experiment. ;)
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More variation in the vegetation will definitely help, unfortunately I don't know think adding bushes and grasses would help much since the shore line is so far away from the camera...but I will experiment. ;)
Why not use dandelo's fake grass?
::) Silly me, how could I forget about that?! I'll try it out but I am unsure of how it will turn out due to the harsh lighting; I may have to lighten the terrain some to get it to show up.
It may be enough to have the shoreline break up a little in places. Clumps of trees or clumps of no trees.
In all, I like it just the way it is ...marvelous creation!
It's been too long since I've last updated but here the next full version finally is. I like the trees better in this one and I think I am close to finished with the clouds. However I did forget to enable some of the planets and I also want to work more on the primary moon/background planet's clouds.
http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Majestic-WIP-152829847
I like this version very much. It's been a really awesome image right along, but this one is the best,
This looks very good. I really like the composition.
Beautiful, lovely clouds both on this planet and the next :)
Richard
Very nice scene! Well done!
Thanks everybody :) This has really been a fun image to work on, even if it takes a while to get right.
Gotta say I love this image. Especially the colors. Would make a nice wallpaper if the resolution would be a tad bit bigger!
Thank you! I definitely will be rendering a 1920 x 1200 or possibly a tad larger for those people with giant monitors ;D
how did i miss this thread ?!
very good job ! lovely composition, i really like the mood of this render !
Very cool image the last one.
I like the small moon which adds a rather surreal but awesome depth to the image.
Very nice atmospherics as well!
Martin
I think I'm done with this one; whenever I go to add something I just end up staring at it without making any changes...so here it is. Everything is terragen except for the stars, the birds, and some layer adjustments. As requested I've rendered it at 1920x1200 for all those people with absurdly large monitors ;D It has been a lot of fun making this and I would like to thank you all for your encouragement and suggestion throughout the process...also, a special thanks to MGebhart, your trees are awesome!
http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Wonder-155430571
That's really a masterpiece of yours! Fantastic work.
Congratulations!
Frank
Congrats on finishing it. Awesome!
This turned out incredible! Great job sticking with it until you were happy.
Thank you very much :)
I like absurd monitors :)
Thanks , Darthvader1 .
Kadri.
A very striking picture; well done! Could you imagine the pull of gravity with a large planet so close?
Congrats ;)
Thank you for the Daily Deviation nomination freelancah, it is really quite a pleasant surprise :)