New Eden by kromekat
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This image, or at least one like it has been in my mind for literally years now. Probably inspired by a couple of NASA's space colony concepts of the 70's, definitely by Ben Bova's novel 'Colony', and obviously to an extent by Greg Bear's 'Eon and Clarke's 'Rama' series!
At any rate, after getting the newest version of Cinema 4D, with render instances, and speeded up sub poly displacent, I did a couple of tests with large amounts of trees, and then started to put this idea to the test.
All modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D, apart from the addition of the little girl (my daughter) in Photoshop, as well as post render colour tweaks etc.
Cheers
Adam
Comments (63)
AeroJett
Very very nice! I've never read Bova's "Colony" but I have read his novels, "Saturn" and "Titan" which are set in a similar O'Niel Cylinder (though I believe it used length-wise window stripes for sunlight)
-seek-
nice nice render.. reminds me of the game halo
Nanothect
Hah! I've also tried and failed to do this style in Bryce... This is fantastic, and I would really like to see a tutorial in maybe 3DArtist or 3D World. Nice one Adam!
wingnut55
really impressive work, great lighting.
pakled
Now for Ringworld?...;) or a Dyson sphere...;) Yeah, see Bova, Rama, and even Babylon 5 if you squint right...;)
alan42
stunning work - thought Eon straight away. Fave:)
Svarg
This is really impressive. Superb work!
scifire
Awesome render, you must do more!
geirla
That's got to be about the best habitat interior I've seen. Excellent image, a fav for sure!
MRX3010
This is a great , amazing work!
amapitodd
Brilliant work. Great lighting and concept designs.
Bambam131
The image speaks for itself, masterfully created and presented. You have done a wonderful job of showing what a O'Neill style cylinder colony may look like. Excellent balance of space and distance. Very impressive in all respects! Well done my friend, David
Pewter7
My friend, this is without doubt THE BEST sci-fi image I have had the pleasure to view yet on this (or any other) site!! This is a fantastically composed image with so much wonderful detail and, of course, the incredible pov!! I love how you included your sweet child in your artwork. Even in silhouette, it is obvious she is a precious soul. Thank you for this amazing and fun image. I had that book when I was young: NASA sent it to me after I had written them a letter. I was fascinated by the images and concept then and love how you have brought those ideas to such marvelous life here ...
jenwencheng
Spectacular. Breathtaking work!
frank-interactive
Excellent work! Frank
dcmstarships
always love to see space colony interiors
Curio
Well done! you finally did the Eon/Rama picture that always eluded me. :) Lovely piece
Big_D
Excellent work! I'm working as well on a my version of a cylindrical, orbital O'Neill's habitat of the kind so this is a welcome addition and inspiration ! Five stars from me & keep up the good work!
zhaanman
Wicked cool look and design for crafts as well as the Grand Perspective of it!! It reminds me of a novel I read some years back where this expedition discovers a city like this in an asteroid if I'm remembering correctly!
kromekat
zhaanman - that might well be Eon by Greg Bear!?
kenmo
Images do not get much better then this...!!!! 5++
Scott2753
Fantastic! LOL the FIRST thing that came to my mind was the book "Rendezvous at Rama" by Arthur C Clarke when I saw this incredible piece of work...beautiful job all the way around on this!
rocketsledd
So. I'm poking around the new images and find this one. I'm like "Excellent!" And then I see it's kromekat;-) Superb work, man.
kftate
Spectacular image and gorgeous work!! Excellent!!
wliebtposer
new eden is a perfect rendering.i have a new favorite artist.
anitalee
Wonderful work
Speech
That's so cool it goes beyond −273 °C. Mega respect for this glorious piece of artwork and a MASSIVE well done.
JeffersonAF
Excellent work.
neoexcello
Wonderful....reminds me of "Rendezvous with Rama," the book. Terrific composition work.
mps
Marvelous image