Majestic - WIP

[Gannaingh]

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

[EoinArmstrong]

This is a well-worked version - the large planet is superb looking - nice work!

[Henry Blewer]

Really nice looking space scene. I may try one someday.

[Jack]

very Nice ! 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;)!  

[Gannaingh]

Thanks everybody!

[FrankB]

I like it very much, great mood in this. I don't find the trees too dark.

[domdib]

Great use of tree pops - did they really push up render time?

[trailgirl]

Great scene, it is definitely majestic. Love the planets.

[glen5700]

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

[Gannaingh]

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

[Gannaingh]

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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[Henry Blewer]

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.

[dwilson]

i love the color spectrum and lighting in both. -Devin

[Kadri]

Nice scene , Darthvader1.

Kadri.

[Gannaingh]

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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