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S U R R O U N D E D by ~Ron1649:iconRon1649:

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Surrounded
Decedo tellus 2153 A.C. (anter confero, lat. - before collision)

:w00t:! It's my first deviation that has scored 1000 views. And it took only 3 days, nice :)


I'm attempting here on of those huge descriptions, as I see around at dA. So you can just to pass this big blah-blah-blah and enjoy.

Story:
Decedo tellus (lat. - Dying world) is a planet, going in circles around a far star. The planet is very close to another, it's "brother". These two planets spin around each other, while a lot of moons spin around them. The star in the center is one of the biggest, and often there are megablasts on it's surface. A large amount of hot gases are ejected into nearby space, making some strange oblong shapes. These shapes can reach the lenght, that is twenty times bigger than diameter of the star itself.

Decedo tellus once was a green planet, with rivers, life, vegetation. But because of unknown causes, it's orbit around the star changed from a circle to a spiral, going closer and closer to the star. The temperature began rising, and all life on the planet died. Because of the same unknown causes, these two "brother" planets were getting closer and closer to each other, resulting into a collision.

Planet's home solar system is situated very close to the edge of the galaxy, and from the surface another galaxy in the space is seen.

Making
I've originally started working on this as on the *TerraGeneration's "sunset artpack" render. I made it, and only then I've realized that it just doesn't suit it. Sunset is something more than just a low altitude sun, but the pic was ready, I couldn't just delete it. So I had an idea of making this kind of piece. Terrain made in GeoControl (first time used it), render done in Terragen, then it went through a Photoshop postwork. Also I've used some Apophysis renders and some clouds and sun stock.

If you wonder why the hell I've put all that science bullshit above, that's because I'm not making this like "oh, I'll just put this here, rotate this, lighten this and voila!", no, that's because I always think of what I make. So don't call it a planets, call it a moons, 'coz there are only two planets here, Terragen part and the one that is most big, but almost invisible here, 'coz it's situated low and half-covered with cloud. In the right.

I would also like to say a huge thanks to :iconottov:, for letting me use some of his Apo renders. I think he saved me almost a day of renderings. So you should definitely visit him. Oh, and you can find that galaxy render, made by him here.

Stats
Terragen part:
GeoControl terrain making - 15mins
Getting the render look good - around 5 hours (that's b'coz I needed to see what I'm making, so there were a lot of 800x600 renders, ~10mins each)
Final Terragen 2000x1000 render - 4 hours
Upper sky part 2000x1000 render - 1 hour
Cloudscape mask 2000x1000 render - 1 hour
Ground mask 2000x1000 render - 10mins


Apophysis renders - three renders, ~2h each

Photoshop part:
Making of two 2000x2000 planets textures - ~30min each
Photoshop postwork time - about two days (yes, my PC is soooo slooooow)
psd file size - 83MB (it takes five mins to open it, three mins to save)
Layers count - 50

[06.10.28] plus about an hour to fix some bugs.
[07.08.16] pack contains 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1280x800, 1440x900

Comments


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~kiromancer Jun 20, 2006, 9:09:56 AM
wow. very nice! :clap:

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~haltende-kjeks Jun 20, 2006, 9:19:11 AM
WOW... that is awsome.. one of the best ones from you :D
i really love the surreal effect with the apophysis render ^^

:+fav:

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~haltende-kjeks Jun 20, 2006, 9:20:47 AM
forgott to say.. you have now created my new desktop bg :D

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~Mr-Magic Jun 20, 2006, 9:29:01 AM
the grainy shit in the middle ruins it a bit. but uknow i love it

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*cgImagery Jun 20, 2006, 9:37:00 AM
holy mother effin frikin wowzers ;P
yes you better get onto doing this more often :shakefist:
the grainy shit thing kimmo's talking about, if it's the title thing, then yeah, you should move it to the lower right or something ;P
but greatness anyway ;P

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~Mallic-42 Jun 20, 2006, 9:42:23 AM
Terran is too bland, nothing interesting on it. Adding flora and fauna would help.
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~Ron1649 Jun 20, 2006, 9:44:27 AM
I was just too tired of changin' it. Let it be this way for a while, then I'll change it to smth else. Oh, I'm very glad you like this. :)

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~Ron1649 Jun 20, 2006, 9:45:46 AM
k. No probs. I'll think of smth.

And thanx for your nice comment :)

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~Ron1649 Jun 20, 2006, 9:47:28 AM
Cool, now at least two people in the world are using this as a wallpaper =D

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