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Published: 2011-05-27 08:05:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 1546; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 132
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100% Photoshop, probably 4-6 hours total.Critiques and comments welcome
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Awesome! Love your rings. If you don't mind me asking, what technique do you use for your rings? I still haven't found a great technique.
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No problem
Glad you like it!
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Awesome, Thanks. That helps a lot, much better than some of the other techniques out there. Its one of those things where I'm like, why didn't I think of that. lol
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Okay here is a critique: While a beautiful and well made picture, it lacks a certain bit of scientific accuracy. Natural satellites of large planets like this, are always formed along the equatorial plane of their Primary. The Gallileans and Titan and all other major moons in our solar system are typical of this arrangement. They are along the equatorial plane and rotate in the same direction as the mother planet. Triton is the only exception as it is theorized to be a captured body, It's orbit is not circular and it moves in retrograde to Neptune. So if you were to stand on Titan, or Ganymede, you would not see the ring system like that from that angle, they would be edge on.
So for the sake of artistic licence and to make a more dramatic picture, many space artists ignore this bit of astronomy.
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You're totally right. I suppose its possible that the initial moons formed, and the planet got knocked on its side (ala uranus) some times afterwards, and sometimes after that the ring system formed, but that's pretty implausible. Unfortunately I feel art has to take precedent over science in some cases, mostly cause I liked my rings so much...
Thanks for the input though, its definitely not something a lot of people think about. Glad you liked the art part
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Well I wish I were as good at photoshop as you obviously are. That sort of art is real talent. I do other things with PS, more concretely real 3D that just perspective.
Also, about the art vs science argument: I found out how hard it is to follow accurate astromy while trying to make an awesome looking video such as flying through the Galilean system. Yeah, it just doesn't work out that way.
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