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UniverseDreams In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 20:03:24 +0000 UTC]

Glad to see that you're continuing this series. I look forward to it every year. And the submission being a week late this year means that you posted it on my birthday. Quite an awesome treat, if I do say so myself.

This piece has such a unique and surreal feel to it. Laws of physics aside, it makes me wonder if something like this could actually exist somewhere in a distant corner of the universe. The black hole is eerie and yet it makes the planet look calm, peaceful, and ancient. The floating pillar also adds to this effect, making me feel like this world is something that hasn't been seen or touched for millennia. The symmetrical land rings of palm trees are nice addition as well, and one of my favorite highlights of this artwork. All in all, quite an awesome piece. Happy birthday!

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Chromattix In reply to UniverseDreams [2016-07-23 05:24:03 +0000 UTC]

I almost gave up, but I'll try and milk the series out for as long as I can, I at least got a whole year (well, 51 weeks now) to think about the next

I imagined this being one of the "further out" planets in my gallery, I seem to have this idea that the further you get away from our corner of the universe - the stranger worlds get (even though that really has no bearing in real life, odd and familiar planet types can exist practically anywhere) but unless this is the work of aliens - I wouldn't count on finding a structure like this naturally anywhere. The ring-shaped islands perhaps, but not the perfectly-aligned trees or floating ball of rock

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cosmicbound In reply to Chromattix [2016-07-23 08:29:36 +0000 UTC]

Even if physical laws don't change the further out from our location one gets, we can at least imagine the parallel or logically possible universes out there!

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Kirakanjo In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 19:33:07 +0000 UTC]

I loove the eerie feel!! 

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ShadowDrakkon In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 17:46:53 +0000 UTC]

  A very unconventional representation of a hypothetical planet, where foregone is the remote concept of physics when a planet now orbits a black hole, but definitely eye-catching to look upon and see one instead of a traditional source of light as a star which the planet orbits. Though I must wonder, how long would you expect a day to be on such a planet that would orbit this black hole?
  The landscape is surreal in design, despite not being for the purpose of surrealism in its concept, which makes it a very interesting design to look at in a completely unorthodox manner to look at it. The color scheme of the artwork gives a sense of warmth, despite the contrast of an ominous black hole looming overhead. The symmetry of the landscape makes for an eye-catching concept, and I still often wonder how you do this with Photoshop and Vue, but I assume Cinema4D is the reason you have that unusual structure. I never expected something like this for your annual birthday submission.

  When looking upon the thumbnail deeply for this artwork, I could very easily identify the source of light was the black hole, and I can see where it obviously was originally meant to be a Saturn-like ringed planet. Of course, since this planet is hypothetical, I cannot mention anything about the physics of the landscape without being completely incorrect because physics does not exist there. I thought the floating land mass could have been held in a stasis-like gravity, but that would mean the planet would need to have an equal gravitational force, thus effectively making itself a black hole.
  But I just confused myself more.

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Chromattix In reply to ShadowDrakkon [2016-07-23 05:20:40 +0000 UTC]

Very in depth thoughts As for the day-length, if one was to get physics-cal about this then it would have to be tidally-locked to the black hole (since otherwise there would be monster tides coming and going in the water which would quickly ruin this perfect island structure) so if you count the day side as being this side here facing towards the black hole, then it would always be daytime since it won't appear to move in the sky at all. How long a day takes would basically be however long a year takes Though the planet would have a steeply-inclined orbit in order for this low-angle view of it to be possible, so while it may stay in the same place of the sky at all times - it might still appear different over time as the planet orbits below it, then in line with it and then above it etc over and over

C4D was used to make the structure in the middle but that was it for that and was only a few minutes worth modelling the simple shape, but the ring-shaped islands themselves were created with some clever use of the function editor in Vue's procedural terrain editor Most of the time was spent having to place the palm trees one-by-one on the scene, which got really slow after the first dozen of them since the polygon count started to get too high for a mere laptop to run it properly, so not even halfway though I was already reduced to an agonizing minute or so taken for every palm tree to be put down since it just started running so slowly, then the large bushes in between were put in manually between those with alternating flower colours in a nice pattern too Only the small grassy/weedy looking plants were done via Vue's ecosystem ability.

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slayerdude677 In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 17:38:58 +0000 UTC]

its happening again..............  

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Burgereater In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 17:08:22 +0000 UTC]

It would be awesome to see the art you made, but that's a black hole....

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cs-iwan888 In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 16:46:01 +0000 UTC]

It looks incredible! You did a really good job with it!

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Chromattix In reply to cs-iwan888 [2016-07-23 02:25:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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JulianVII In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 16:37:14 +0000 UTC]

The symmetry is mouth watering.

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princeofallsofas In reply to ??? [2016-07-22 16:10:24 +0000 UTC]

This looks like it'd be a really cool place to visit.

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