retreating to your own world?

[nvexio]

i'm writing a short story, and decided to create some pictures to go along with it... one of which is this one that i'm showing, which is greatly a work in progress, i have another planet and a source of light (sun/star) to add... and take out some of the pattern-ness of the current planet...

http://www.nvexio.com/world.jpg

eh?

[beyelzu]

i'm writing a short story, and decided to create some pictures to go along with it... one of which is this one that i'm showing, which is greatly a work in progress, i have another planet and a source of light (sun/star) to add... and take out some of the pattern-ness of the current planet...

www.nvexio.com/world.jpg


eh?


two things

1, the picture is really fucking cool already


2. will you post the story when it is complete, of if it is already complete will you post it now?

[livius drusus]

Seconded. I love that azure color. It's stunning, really.

[nvexio]

i havent started the story yet, i wanted to do the designs first.

i updated the picture, i added another planet, and a star/sun, which i plan to tweak more later on, but went ahead and added it to have something to go by.

[Roland98]

That is very cool. What do you use to create something like that?

[nvexio]

photoshop.

i redid the image alot for those who saw it early as its first state, just a blue planet in the foreground... as you can see the difference now... (updated first post)

[livius drusus]

Love the rings, love the extra planets, but I miss the blue guy being in the foreground. Also, the rings seem to thin out in the front. Is that a perspective thing I'm too ignant to know about or is it just an unfinished bit?

[nvexio]

alright, i believe i'm finished with it... i think.

[Petra]

I love digital space art pics, and this one rocks.

When do we get the story?

:super:


Edit: wow, it hadn't even fully loaded last time I looked at it - I wondered why you had so much white space in your post.

Fantastic! :bow:

[nvexio]

thanks :]

i dunno when i'll get the story done.. or when i'll start it for that matter :P

[The Lone Ranger]

Beautiful!


Are you interested in an astronomical appraisal? If so, I'd say that the planet in the foreground is rather implausible. Why? Because the sun it's orbiting has apparently settled into the Main Sequence, meaning that the planet is probably hundreds of millions of years old at the youngest. But the planet has an atmosphere that's much thicker than the Earth's. As such, it couldn't have so many clearly-visible craters unless the planet is a.) very young on a geological time scale, and so the craters haven't had time to erode away, or b.) the victim of a very recent -- on a geological time scale -- (and very heavy) bombardment of some sort.


None of this detracts in the slightest from the fact that it's simply breath-takingly beautiful work!

Cheers,

Michael

[nvexio]

thank you for the details :) i'll edit it some more then :P

[The Lone Ranger]

Oh heck, don't take me too seriously. I think it's a stunningly-beautiful image, regardless of whether or not it's "realistic."

If you wanted to do an image that's realistic, I'd say that you might want to consult an actual physicist or astronomer. My suspicion, though, is that this system with 3 planets in such close proximity couldn't work. They'd soon crash into each other.

One way around this would be to make the planet in the foreground a gas giant and position the other two as satellites of it. That should work quite nicely.

Cheers,

Michael

[nvexio]

i had thought about making it a gas giant, it had originated (after it's blue/green phase) as a gas giant... but for how close it was in the foreground, it looked a little too plain for my tastes, so i decided to make it look battered.

in fact the story i'm going with deals with a planet being utterly bombarded by space-crafts, so i decided to make that one the one where detail needed to show (in the picture, naturally the closest one). so it wasnt a massive asteroid bombardment, just artillery. those are just the textures i came up with, dont really mind which they look more like :P

but thanks for your input :]

[beyelzu]

could you make it wider so I can set it as my desktop background?


I will be your friend




and I only make this incredibly selfish request because I so love the picture

[pescifish]

could you make it wider so I can set it as my desktop background?It's a gorgeous picture, nvexio, but if you make it wider, i.e., larger than the nearly 600K it is now, could you maybe link it instead of embed the pic? Dialup at 26.4 Kbps is a bitch.

[beyelzu]

could you make it wider so I can set it as my desktop background?It's a gorgeous picture, nxevio, but if you make it wider, i.e., larger than the nearly 600K it is now, could you maybe link it instead of embed the pic? Dialup at 26.4 Kbps is a bitch.
damn, it is 600k,

didnt notice,


sometimes I forget what dialup was like. :innocent:

[pescifish]

damn, it is 600k,
The mo' better to view it's gorgeousity! :yup:

[JoeP]

i had thought about making it a gas giant, it had originated (after it's blue/green phase) as a gas giant... but for how close it was in the foreground, it looked a little too plain for my tastes, so i decided to make it look battered.

in fact the story i'm going with deals with a planet being utterly bombarded by space-crafts, so i decided to make that one the one where detail needed to show (in the picture, naturally the closest one). so it wasnt a massive asteroid bombardment, just artillery. those are just the textures i came up with, dont really mind which they look more like :P

but thanks for your input :]
Gas giants can be incredibly beautiful & un-plain with cloud structures. Design your own great red spots!

The scientifically consistent approach might be to put your action on one or more of the moons - all cratered and bombarded as much as you like - and make the giant they orbit uninhabitable. Or only inhabitable with special spacecraft and floating platforms. Hell, I'm started to get interested in writing this myself!

joe

[Adora]

Er, the light sources & shadows seem off, especially for the azure planet.

I also don't like the way you did the far-off lightsource, because shouldn't stars that are closer to a bigger/brighter star be dimmer?

On an artistic note, to me it feels a little unbalanced, and I'd probably swap the position of the azure planet and the star-light-source.

Apart from that *shrugs* it's okay.

[wade-w]

Er, the light sources & shadows seem off, especially for the azure planet.
True


I also don't like the way you did the far-off lightsource, because shouldn't stars that are closer to a bigger/brighter star be dimmer?


Is this a trick question? Ummm... I'll bite anyway, I guess. Why should they be dimmer?

[Adora]

Y'know, the same reason you can't see many stars in the night sky around cities- one light source overpowers the other. So the stars around the big-shiny-thing should be slightly less bright, rather than brighter due to the bigger one.

[nvexio]

they werent brighter around planets/sun because i made it that way, that was just how the pattern happened.

[Socratoad]

I'm absolutely stunned by the beauty of it.

I must admit that when I read the title I was expecting something different. Something I might be able to contribute to. Such as myself selling my companies over twenty years ago and leaving the rat race far behind.

However I shall just have to enjoy the digital artworks of others cuz I have no talent in this exciting field. Enjoying the results of the talents of others is a pretty exciting and fulfilling pastime though.

[wade-w]

Y'know, the same reason you can't see many stars in the night sky around cities- one light source overpowers the other. So the stars around the big-shiny-thing should be slightly less bright, rather than brighter due to the bigger one.

I thought so. Much of that is due to refraction of light in the atmosphere. Since the perspective of this picture is from space, this effect will be smaller. Also, the relative brightness of the light sources has to be taken into consideration. This is quite obvliously not our solar system, so who can say how bright that nebula should be?

[nvexio]

the death of a planet... picture two:

http://www.nvexio.com/planetdeath.jpg

[JoeP]

Wouldn't like to meet that on a dark interstellar night ... amazing

[nvexio]

alright, finished the second one... added a colliding planet, made some highlights in the star field, and added a planet out in the distance...

[Adora]

Oh, I like this one better, though the sort of blackness on the planet doesn't seem right.

[wade-w]

Oh, I like this one better, though the sort of blackness on the planet doesn't seem right.
*snort* What's not right about it? *snicker*

[nvexio]

i redid the star field completely... tweaked some of the textures on the lower, larger planet, and added two stars...