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Chromattix — Sinking Satellite
Published: 2008-07-05 05:34:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 37798; Favourites: 903; Downloads: 0
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The nearest and smallest Moon of a large Earth-like world has been inching ever closer each year, disaster is inevitable. Probably struck by a comet and knocked out of orbit, or maybe interfered with by two larger Moons nearby are likely reasons for such an even to happen...On approach, anyone or anything viewing from the ground notices a growing disk blocking out the Sunlight, darkening skies, and magnetically-influenced aurora's and lightning appearing in the most unlikely areas, their flash of colour illuminating just what exactly is about to come crashing down. The ground shakes due to gravitational stress acted upon it, and storm cells in the atmosphere go haywire as they move above turbulent seas, their world will end before the main event even happens...the impact!
Well heres my successful entry to 's first artpack they have made ever since I was finally good enough to stand a chance lol.
Can you beleive that the "base" render for the storm clouds in the blue planet about to be hit was done in Vue? yep...clever use of terrains right there, thats all I will say
...who needs Terragen 2 for dramatic orbital renders?Wallpapers of this and some other cool space-themed art can be found at TerraSpace's Moons pack ...I won't be putting WP's here, but print is available.
Copyrighted artwork. Wallpapers from TerraSpace are intended for personal desktop use only. No images from there or my gallery are to be used or reproduced in any way without permission from the artists
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Comments: 251
Thanks a lot, yeah, as for the stages, in most cases, when I first consider something finished, its FINISHED lol, and I just post it here. But this one was different to everything else I submitted due to getting critique before uploading, and thats why it was "finished" four times
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A distant rumbling off in the distance?
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You make the best space art I've ever seen. Excellent job.
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The best? well I'm not sure about that, but I guess some prefer different styles over another, it isn't always the best space art that are my faves either 
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I read somewhere (or maybe I saw it on a documentary) that the moon is not coming closer to the earth, but going further away by 2 inches every year... unless I don't remember correctly haha.
Amazing idea and concept though. Just looking at the surface of the earth and the chaos that's going on on it, makes you wish you won't be there if something like that would ever happen.
Amazingly done as usual, keep'em coming!
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You remembered correctly, the Moon IS getting further away from earth, but this here is a fictional planet a bit like Earth ( which explains why it has two more moons in the background lol )
And yes, I'm glad this will never happen, it would be the most horrible way to die
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nice idea
but the big planet looks not so good....
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WOW!
Reminds me of a dream I had once. Freaky.
*two thumbs up* It's a fav!
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I like the rest of your gallery too. You are very talented.
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I used to have lots of epic-disaster dreams when I was younger and paranoid that something will end the world ( especially after seieng those documentaries on comets lol ) But now I realise that such an event is extremely unlikely, I'm not bothered too much
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God that's so cool. I never thought about that, if two planets came together and had lightning storms, if the lightning would JOIIIIN TOGETHER
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I'm not sure if that would really happen, but I thought it was a cool concept that could be beleivable until we actually see an event like this happen to prove otherwise ( Which won't happen for thousands of years at the least lol, we need to find a system where this catastrophe is in the making ) But if there is enough magnetic disturbance between two massive worlds, especially if they both have a high iron content, then lightning could result then
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It better happen now, you got me all excited.
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Wow ... the details are awesome. Nice idea with this colorfull aurora. You get it dude.
:+favlove.
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Darn it, everytime you submit something, you make me wanna scroll down to see if there's a DD given to you, then I GET FRIKKIN DISAPPOINTED!
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Lol, well I think I have only once seen a deviation appear on my watchlist, and it got a DD a day later lol. I can't really expect that to happen to mine, would be cool though
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Aww, but your works are terribly fascinating to just look at... It's thought-provoking and makes me wanna learn 3D...
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Oh shnap cakes!! Thats waaaay to close!!!
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Lol, your comment reminds me of an early title idea called "Too close for comfort" 
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Ahh yes, I can see what you have done here 
G x
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Ohh, thanks a lot for commenting my work...come to think of it, I havn't been to the rest of your gallery in ages, it was one of the first I saw when joining here *goes to make more comments 
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Thanks for commenting and faving 
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Thanks for commenting and faving
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wow effect is amazing, lights and shadows compose with it . ^^:good job:
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man really awesome piece it looks like a colision great
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It will be a collision soon enough 
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You're getting much better at space art. Excellent job.
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I cant believe how awesome you got those storm clouds
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I sought inspiration for the cloud-design when I saw this picture [link] I just had to do something like it, and probably will again in the future, especially if I decide to make a gas giant up close, I could get away with giving the clouds wild colours then
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Fricken awesome dude as usual. Keep up the great work!!!!!
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absolutely amazing man, that is soo stunning. i just love this man keep this up!!
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They were surprisingly easy to do, all I needed were some fractals ( originally intended for nebulae ) the Motion blur filter, and then finally warping the layer to get it to bend the way I want. Setting it to "linear dodge" to get the glowing effect and eradicate the dark backgrounds, and just playing around with their colours...I think the Aurora's took me around 20 minutes or so
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Oh, I love it! The colors, everything fits so well! ^.^
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