Ancient Seabeds by moodflow

Terragen • Science Fiction • posted on Feb 19, 2008

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Description

There used to be an ocean here, but no more. Blame it on celestial mechanics or some other stellar phenomenon - maybe temporary (but tragic) effects from a nearby supernova? Specs: Standard power fractals for the terrain displacements. Custom power fractal stack group for most of the rocks and terrain. This stack gives incredible detail both macro and micro (and takes some extra time to render to). I used an image map for the sand to speed up the rendering time. The clouds are from the clip file I recently posted in my other image thread (on the TG2 forums). Used an image map of Jupiter mapped to a background planet. Minor postwork in Photoshop: color balancing, contrast, sharpening Res: 1024x768 (finally!) Detail: 0.8 AA: 10 GI: 2/2 (with surface detail) Time: 14 hours over 2 cores Many thanks for viewing. More images to come.

Comments (17)

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e-brink

11:08PM | Tue, 19 February 2008

Fabulous image... bags of power and movement!

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misha_d

11:21PM | Tue, 19 February 2008

Love this, very uplifting and... breathtaking!

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gerberc

12:17AM | Wed, 20 February 2008

Stunning!

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inkydigit

5:54AM | Wed, 20 February 2008

very very nice work!

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Pankaj

6:06AM | Wed, 20 February 2008

awesome light and POV

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calico1

6:45AM | Wed, 20 February 2008

Excellent use of light. Great terrain and textures. The planet is phenomenol in color and size, but is it natural? I wouldn't know how to tell you. But, it looks cool. :)

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Absinthe

9:12AM | Wed, 20 February 2008

Fantastic image! Very dramatic effect!

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Fidelity2

12:40PM | Wed, 20 February 2008

Very well done. 5+.

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Coppens

2:28PM | Wed, 20 February 2008

Really well done!

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fredric_lpn

4:45PM | Wed, 20 February 2008

original render!

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Markal

11:15PM | Wed, 20 February 2008

Very cool image!!

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prutzworks

2:48AM | Thu, 21 February 2008

xlt TG2 work

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mikekoh

8:01PM | Thu, 21 February 2008

Very professional shadowing and the planet (I believe it must be the planet X Nibiru which passes our solar system every 36,000 years) fix smoothing into the scene. Very inspiring masterpiece. The terrains have the natural curve that fuses off the mass.

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