Omen

[elipsis1]

Well here is something I did tonight, one of my first creations with Terragen 2  

Hope you guys like it, I worked really hard on that planet.

Any tips for making authentic planets? Particularly getting the power fractal to fit to a sphere? It is hard to explain... I guess when you look at a planet photo things distort near the poles.  Perhaps someone will know...

[elipsis1]

I toned down the colors in the second, and added the r0man photoshop brushes.

[TheBadger]

I love science fiction, always have alway will.
Image 2 is vastly better IMO... What brushes did you say you used for the solar flares?

Welcome to the forums by the way.


Oh yeah, I almost forgot... Did you paint that background? if so you may like to search *backgrounds* here in the forums and try rendering the background instead, you may find you like it better.



*Spell*

[Kadri]

Looks nice! But would like to see it a little bigger 

[TheBadger]

Sorry, one more thing... If you do make a larger image as Kadri suggests, I can composite animated flares I made, and animate the shot to have movement. I would just need an HD size image to work with... Could be fun to see your image move. Just an offer, no worries.

Here is a link to the flare I made, what you will see is a title slot from my demo. But just think about the flares.
http://vimeo.com/38145084

[elipsis1]

I did render in full HD, I thought this forum had a file size restriction, so I resized in photoshop with bicubic sharper setting.

The brushes were by "r0man" I found them via a YouTube tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HHNOPzpjq4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thanks for the comments, I will upload the HD to my deviantart account "elipsis01"

Oh and the background has the Gaussian noise stars and some flare brushes. The big swirls are the r0man brushes.

[TheBadger]

Hey elipsis1
Checked out your gallery on DA, some cool stuff there. I found the image above like you said. Do you happen to have the image with out the paint work? To make the animation work I need a render with no post. and ideally a version with out the planet. 2 versions, one with planet one without, and no post.
If not no worries, I just think it will look cool animated, and be fun for me to do.
Let me know.

[elipsis1]

Sure  I can do that. I'll try and do that tonight. I let you know when I upload them.

[inkydigit]

very nice concept and realization!

[elipsis1]

@TheBadger, I uploaded the two images to my deviantart account.  I'm attaching here too.

It will be cool to see what you do with this... 

[TheBadger]

Hi elipsis1,

I will be working on this in my down time from other things, so give me a few days. I think it will look cool.

[Xynedia]

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