nice lighting indeed :)

no idea how he did it mate, I often have problems with space scenes, and use fill lights etc
one test I did, I rendered the object with an HDRI background, for lighting too, and then without it, and composited it, gave very nice look.

maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps the original render of that scene there, was done VERY large, like 4000 pixels, then reduce din post, to let quality of lighting show?

maybe also post work?

as said try scifi meshes, so much I don't know about space scenes :/

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