Wonderful sci-fi creation... splendid image, 5+++++!

Most Excellent!

Wonderful picture! As a Sfi-Fi geek this is right up my creek.

Excellent image. 5+.

That rear U-wing looks like it would be caught in the side-spill of the thrusters' emissions. I think if it were further foward, it'd look better technically (out of the blast),IMO. Out of curiousity, why does it only have one on top? None on the bottom? These are really minor questions on an OVERWHELMINGLY COOL piece of work! The details and wide sweep of breath-taking vista of this piece is staggering and looks better than most Scifi book-covers! Kick-ass work! Woohoo! I wish my space renders looked half as good! ^__^V,,

Not being an engineer I'm not distracted by any technical issues with the ships. They look pretty good to me, great textures on the central ship. I really like the quality of the gases in deep space. Could be unrealistic but I don't care. Great looking image.

Great view. In some ways it performs even better than the book cover piece. I like the scout ship more here, where as the other vessels were a little more intriguing on the original. This version gives you more of a sense of "rim skimming", which is always cool in my book :-) I also love your nebulosity - rich and McCallian while imparting your own flavor to that illustrative objective. The planetary aurora is a wonderful touch, as well. It goes without saying that the ship designs are cool (but there - I went and said it anyway). If I had any nits to pick it's that a) that little chunk of ultra dark nebulosity just to the right of the planet is a bit distracting, and b) the flight paths of each ship seem unique (chaotic). Maybe it's just a camera angle distortion, but if the two (cargo?) ships were more obviously on a similar trajectory the image might "feel" a little better.

Thanks, everyone, for the compliments, and the questions, as well. Joel, I think what you're seeing is the result of forced perspective of the piece-the scene was rendered with a really wide angle. In the actual model, there is plenty of clearance for the exhaust-but I agree, from this POV it doesn;t look it. It only has one U-wing because it needs to land, and another wing would make the undercarriage unreasonably long. (I will note that, in the original design, there WAS another wing.) Originally, the wing was further forward, too, but it was art directed further back. deci6el, I do pay a lot of attention to making the piece look good-and I've been known to cheat a little for the sake of aesthetics-I do TRY to make things seem probable. The background nebula could certainly be real, if the supergiant's star system were close enough to a big emission nebula. It probably wouldn't be bright enough to show a distinct color, though. arcas, no fair, you've had the advantage of seeing the actual cover! I agree with you about the dark nebula, its too distracting. The 2 cargo ships are actually on parallel courses-which givea you some idea HOW wid-the viewing angle is. I probably should've cheated that, to make it look right, as opposed to being right.

Lovely level of detail and subtle lighting work on the ships and planet. Great work. Pagrin :-)

I didn't see the original, I think but this one is very cool.

Brilliant work, Tom! FIVE STARS

Keen ship and pic...

whoaw, that is really good work, magnificent.

OooooHo HO HO this is just tooo sweet!! Love the design and the effect what a beauty and the setting stellar!!!

Remarkable job. This work of art very much was pleasant to me.