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Published: 2013-11-27 11:17:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 40211; Favourites: 1656; Downloads: 864
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While still waiting for the flash file I went to get help with for my recently submitted Across The Universe calendar, I decided to use the free time I had to illustrate an idea I had in mind for a few years now. Just waiting for a "well, don't know what else to draw" moment like now. Trying to bring something a little new to the space and science fiction scene, I went for two gas giant planets either stuck in the most well balanced orbital dance ever, or more likely, moments away from collision. Something you just don't see in the genre. Not sure if this is what the event looks like, but it would be a pretty cool sight to see, and a terrifying one to be caught up in!Artwork remains the copyright property of my gallery. Please do not use, distribute or sell my artwork without my permission
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Yep. Exactly. Can't wait to see it if you ever decide to make it.
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I'm glad someone actually coming up smashing ideas in this genre and I'm also glad that I watch that someone. Unlike the rest stuff I get in my inbox. Space art gets old really fast with the similar compositions over and over again. It's really challenging to keep it fresh.
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There's always room for the classic style space scenes, but indeed they all start looking the same once in a while. Also rarely using any unique colour schemes (like the fact that most of them are blue, it's cool but I'm a bit bored of blue space art by this point). Even with planets alone it'll be interesting to see some interesting surface textures or something unlike what we have seen before. I guess it's a pretty limited genre though, anything non-cliche can be questionable in terms of whether or not it can even exist
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But sure questionable concepts kept me hooked in space art (more
like saying sci-fi would be right I think) for now. If you can imagine it
then probably it might exist somewhere, if not in this universe then
maybe in some other universe then. A lot of recent findings in science
sound more like fiction already (or maybe I feeling it now because I'm
still young xD). At this point I think I've stopped being skeptical much.
Just focused on beauty and meaning than mechanism of nature. I don't
know how far big and small we could break down and label something
taken into account from nature. : P
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Most exceptionally well done Matthew.
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Β that's amazing! Well done ( I know my comments suck, but I'm not very bright 
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You're good at drawing, that sorta makes up for it
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Im speachless right now, this amazing and gorgeous! The concept is shown very well Β and the details, from the smashed planet to Β the mass storm, are all very well executed! flawless! Congratulations mate!
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Glad you liked it! Always good to hear approval from the space art community on these
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I love the sand storm details and the little planet getting ribbed apart as a huge fan of sci fiction i am very found of this!Β Β When i look at your work I always think of the lots of hours you put into it that pays off so well!Β 
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Thanks! Glad you liked it
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I love the way you portrayed the gravitational tug of war.... so mesmerizing almost feel like I'm watching a scene from an epic space-opera movie.... @_@
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Glad you liked it. I did want to go for a movie scene kind of impression. Just waiting for a spaceship to fly past, maybe heading towards a secret station in the storm perhaps
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wow it's like Big Bang D:
but it's wonderful!!! ^^ I love the the different bewteen Light and Dark.
Something hiding in this darkness >)
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Thankyou! Yes that red glow looks pretty sinister
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anytime^^
it reminds me theΒ rhinoceros which came out from red glow like that
inΒ Β James and the Giant Peach ><
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Oh wow, I actually remember that. I had that movie on tape back when I was a little kid. Some parts were a little creepy, others were visually beautiful
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This sort of thing legitimately scares me.
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Nothing scary about a giant burning space tornado...Nothing at all
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love how the two planets interact, also like how the planet is slowly being torn apart by the gravitational pull of the large planets
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Thanks. Took me quite a while to get a realistic ye still cool-looking interaction. Glad I didn't stop when I thought it looked good since compared to this it looked very un-finished
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It certainly is a unique idea, certainly one I've never seen before, and beautifully executed!Β
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Glad that's how you see it
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Quite so! I have a soft spot for gas giants, and you've done them great justice here. I'm envious of your ability to paint the cloud patterns!
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FANTASTIC! 
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Thanks! I would agree that it's getting harder and harder to find or create something new. There's only so much you can do with space art while still having it stick to the name, and many of those ideas have been swept up by other artists already 
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that is a seriously cool concept here. Β
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Well, it's the most interesting space art scene I've seen in a while. And overall, it has a pleasant appearance. It's along 'the right lines' compositionally. Not sure if you want critique, but the scene has further potential.
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Well you can try if you want, it all depend son how radical the changes have to be, I did have to commit to certain things being as-is when some related layers were merged (I just hate having to sort through 100 layers to find one 
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This is a very cool idea, and the first I've seen of its kind.Β I do think that the gases would become heated, both from friction and from tidal forces.Β It looks as though you've incorporated some of that here, so nice work!
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I sure did 
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THANK YOU!! I tried to make something exactly like these a few years ago but couldn't pull it off. I wasn't even sure what two gas giants colliding would like. This pretty much sums it up. Amazing work sir, truly amazing.
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This idea had been in my mind for a few years too. I think I once heard someone mention it or something similar, but nobody drew it. I figured I waited long enough for the idea to surface in someone elses gallery and it didn't, so I drew it
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Yeah I talked about it with someone a long time ago. It might have been JoeJesus or Quaz or somebody. I was thinking that depending on angle and speed of the two planets, plus the gasses that make them up, aΒ direct hit at a high speed could maybe cause them to combust? Those things get hot as hell on the inside. Maybe the gasses would ignite or something, idk, I'm not an astrophysicist. I'm glad you made this, I've always wanted to get back to this idea but never could think of a good composition. This is far better than anything I would have done.
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Implausible or not, this is pretty awesome.
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Once again, you've produced an absolutely eye-popping epic piece my friend. You really create a sense of the titanic gravitational forces involved. I wonder if the event will combine enough mass to trigger nuclear fusion and give birth to a new star in that system.
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Thankyou 
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Yes, this can and does happen.Β It hasn't been observed with planets (planets outside our solar system are dark and hard to see), but has been observed in binary star systems.
From the Wikipedia page on binary stars: "As a star increases in size during its evolution , it may at some point exceed its Roche lobe, meaning that some of its matter ventures into a region where the gravitational pull of its companion star is larger than its own. The result is that matter will transfer from one star to another through a process known as Roche Lobe overflow"
Anyways, do a google image search on "Roche Lobe overflow", the results are amazing.Β As the bigger star starts to suck gasses off of the smaller star, the smaller star starts to look like a Hershey's Kiss.
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Oh yeah, I did one based around binary systems quite a long time ago actually priteeboy.deviantart.com/art/T⦠Though being an older piece, it doesn't quite have the depth and detail of this one here, but it at least proves I knew something like it existed...But only between stars. It's still a mystery if it can happen between planets, terrestrial planets are out of the question, they would either just float around each other or collide, with not much matter falling from one to the other (being solid and all) but two gas giants like here might yield a more interesting result, especially if the distance was only enough to pull the lighter elements in the upper atmosphere away but leave behind the rest
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Marvelous, artistry Β
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How did you do that...?
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