Syria Planum Landing - Twilight by wblack
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Syria Planum Landing - Twilight
NOTE: Image re-named April 10, 2013.
An Orion’s Arm future history image.
In the months after the Settlers land on Mars areas around the Cargo Landers become populated. Here partly and fully unloaded cargo carriers loom in the deepening dusk over a town of converted cargo modules.
The work in this image involved playing light against shadow to capture the quality of dusk and still allow enough ambient backscatter illumination to capture detail. I feel my final solution correctly captures how this scene would appear in reality.
Future History Timeline Context Link: Orion’s Arm Future History Timeline.
Related Images:
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Image of the setting sun, Phobos and Deimos as captured by the Mars rover Opportunity.
Background Photo Credit: NASA/JPL.
All models are my own Bryce creations.
As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.
Comments (13)
geirla
Great work! I like how well you've blended the render and the images.
peedy
Fantastic image and modeling. Beautiful atmo and lighting. Corrie
Kinchie
Almost Perfectly done. I wonder what it would be like when the first humans to view "lunar" eclipses of Phobos or Deimos from Mars. Is it ever possible that both may exprience eclipse on the same day? Perhaps NASA can tell us.
Bossie_Boots
Briliant sci fi scene superb work !!
texboy
well done, bud! those pix from Mars just give me the shivers of delight.... bless those brave little rovers.... super image!
wotan
Lovely sci-fi scene, great soil texture!
grafikeer
Great work all around!
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent sf.
flavia49
fabulous image!!
kanaa
May it happen some day!Excellent work, killer models!
Apple_UK
Wonderfully atmospheric
WZRD
Nice work here. Convincing and plausible. Reminds me of the famous Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Hlynkacg
I actually opened an account simply so I could comment on this. I'm an engineering and history geek who's been working on developing his own near/retro-future sci-fi universe and your artwork work has been a major inspiration and influence. Thank you and keep up the good work. PS: I initially became aware of your work through ProjectHRO's Atomic Rocket Page: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/artgallery.php#WilliamBlack