This is a scene that is in progress (Wings3D, Bryce, UV-Mapper & Photoshop). I would appreciate comments before I work any further with it. The original is about 2000 * 800 pixels. It feels a bit stupid to post this so "late" because I've seen that everybody is making star fields and painting planets nowadays. The scene & spaceship is based on the opening "scene" from the sci-fi comic book: Yanns adventures - The planet of Illusions (1978). Pls give me feedback and comments! /anders

hmm.. what i think about this?! it has the your style and your standard, personally I find lighting on the spacecraft very effective and with drama. maybe if you want to work on it a bit more, add some city lights on the planet surface (assuming it is a colonized planet...)

nice work

Terrific! This kind of stuff never goes out of style, not in MY universe. Great detailing on the ship.

Brilliant, I love this kind of picture. Can't give you any ideas, cos I like it as it is.

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I think it's just fantastic. But if you want some C&C for a space scene post it at Solar Voyager and see what they have to say. Dave (Bambam131) posts there a lot.

looks great to me..hmm..any site bambam131 posts to..;)

It is great, but maybe one technical detail that could be ignored since no one has noticed it yet. The planet looks like it is more than 50% engulfed in light. Unless there are two suns here it looks a little strange in my eyes. Maybe I'm just crazy. Like I said, it doesn't matter a whole lot because no one else has noticed it yet.

thanks all! Here's the next version. Changed the composition a bit...

Message edited on: 06/21/2004 13:15

Much better, this way you can't really tell the lighting on the planet and the focus is on the spaceship more. (duh, as if you couldn't tell that) I really like the detail on the back of the ship, it looks great. Now that I think about the extra light I commented on in my last post, could that be credited as atmospheric glow?

Excellent modeling and texture mapping bazze! I like your background too.

Excellent step forward in terms of composition. Love the detailing on the model btw.

Possible suggestions (if it were me, I'd have to try them out before deciding, you may be able to decide more easily): 1. Try moving the planet down (or the viewpoint up) such that the curve disappears out of the bottom of the picture (and doesn't reappear; ie move such that the upward curve on the left vanishes). 2. (Having done 1) Move the spaceship up or down and a little to the left (that bright exhaust is one of the centres of attention - as I understand it, theory says it shouldn't be on the centre-line). 3. Add some fuzziness/blur/"matter being ejected effect" to the exhaust. (It may not be physically correct, but...) Or leave it alone - great pic!! (And I agree about the detailing.) Cheers, Diolma