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Working on this (obviously). The rings are made from a spectral map of Saturn's rings, so I can only take as much credit as is due for making them actually look like rings instead of a horizontal gradient
Rip this apart guys, tell me what needs to be done because I've hit a wall and don't know where to go.
EDIT: I've done some more work. Please be sure to hit download to look at the details and therefore be in a position to give more effective and accurate critique
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Haha well I do plan on adding more stars, but I definitely was going to go for a very empty background on this one, I agree
Thanks a lot!
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Always good to get your stamp of approval
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Ok, I've read all of the comments ...
In my opinion the camera angle should be rotated around the planet (this does two things - it puts the sun out of the shot, and it will put more of the visible planet into the shot....)
That's just my thoughts ....
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I think this angle is more dramatic, although I do think I need to shrink the sun a bit. I like having shadow, otherwise it's too easy to make a flat image. This way I get to show off the shadow on the rings, the light reflecting from the rings onto the night side of the planet, and the asteroids are more dramatic looking.
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I see you point, I just think at this angle too much of your image (planet) is in shadow...
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Perhaps... Maybe I'll reuse the planet one day from a different angle...
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Seems everything has already been said. I can't really add much, it really depends on whether you want a scene thats dramatic, or realistic...A more dramatic space scene would have mor eplanets, colours and nebulae in the background...But if you want a photo-realistic planet picture, then don't go overboard...Photo's of real planets in our own Solar system are rather basic after all
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Yeah, still not completely sure in which direction I'll go on this one...
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Angle of the rings shadow is slightly off on the right side.
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Thanks a lot, I see what you mean and I'll take care of it
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The sun is way to big and it shifts the focus from the planet to itself.
I think a nice space shuttle would make it look cool
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I agree about the sun, I'm definitely gonna have to shrink that. I've already done a piece with a space shuttle in it, I think I'm just going to go with more asteroids as my extreme foreground option here
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I don't think the shadow on the rings would be quite so defined, and the sun could stand to be further away, as Lee said. Open it up a bit, give it more of an expansive feeling. The planet should still be the focus, but the wonderful thing about space is how big it is, so why not take advantage of that?
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Well the ring shadow at this distance would seem razor sharp, though I agree with you on the distance of the sun. Although one of the amazing things about space is its vastness, I feel that sometimes focusing in on the immensity of specific objects gives across this impression better than an empty canvas. A gas giant is so huge that we can't even fully understand how big it is, yet it is engulfed by the vastness of the emptiness that surrounds it, which is kind of what I was going for here.
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shadows on rings are super sharp never blurry, at least for saturn
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Looks good so far, but I would recommend to use a greater variety of colours. Also, if you would weaken the sun (so it is way more distant) you could add some BG details. Also, if you want to create more unique rings, I would recommend this .
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Actually I did use your polar coordinates idea after reading your tutorial. I used that in order to make a spectral map of Saturn's rings into an actual ring system. I've made my own rings before but I wanted to try this out. Good idea for the colors and sun reduction, I was thinking that too!
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Yeah, the problem of my method is, that you don't have EXACT control of how your rings will look like. At least if you don't wanna put every single stripe on the canvas.
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Well my personal favorite way has always been to use circular gradients. You get ultimate control and they look great if you're willing to put time into them.
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Oh, that's a nice way of doing it. Well, you do have absolute control, but I think it's pretty time consuming. Unless the rings are a focus point, I would just take a 5-minutes method.
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Nah it doesn't take so long if you don't want it to, you can set the gradient to "noise" and it basically makes rings for you, its very cool. You get exactly as much control as you want.
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