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A little moon, destroyed in this moment. It will eventually make rings for the larger world, and instead of being remembered as the unique little world it once was it will only be the rings of another world.

I wanted to make a piece that was more narrative and a little unbalanced with half being more saturated and chaotic and the other more calm and sedated with de-saturated colors.
As you go from one half of the image to the other it has a transition from a dramatic catastrophic event to an indifferent bystander.

I am primarily a 3D artist and worked in Blender to make the worlds, the smoke, and some camera effects like a len's distortion which you can see primarily in the stars at the edges of the frame. I used Krita to paint the background with layers of various smoke, cloud, and blurring brushes. I then did post processing in Gimp bringing in the pieces from the 3D renders and the background. I made corrections to certain parts and did some color corrections and adding more details to really add weight to the scene.

Overall I'd say the part I spent the most time working on was getting the debris and smoke for the little world to behave accurately which required having a smoke sim that almost killed my machine with a 14 hour bake. Though a close second was the time spent sculpting the details on the planet surfaces.

This piece was great fun, and I'm so glad to have been given a challenge like this it really made me consider each part carefully and be very meticulous about things being just so.

Thank you for the motivation and for the idea!

Description
A little moon, destroyed in this moment. It will eventually make rings for the larger world, and instead of being remembered as the unique little world it once was it will only be the rings of another world.

I wanted to make a piece that was more narrative and a little unbalanced with half being more saturated and chaotic and the other more calm and sedated with de-saturated colors.
As you go from one half of the image to the other it has a transition from a dramatic catastrophic event to an indifferent bystander.

I am primarily a 3D artist and worked in Blender to make the worlds, the smoke, and some camera effects like a len's distortion which you can see primarily in the stars at the edges of the frame. I used Krita to paint the background with layers of various smoke, cloud, and blurring brushes. I then did post processing in Gimp bringing in the pieces from the 3D renders and the background. I made corrections to certain parts and did some color corrections and adding more details to really add weight to the scene.

Overall I'd say the part I spent the most time working on was getting the debris and smoke for the little world to behave accurately which required having a smoke sim that almost killed my machine with a 14 hour bake. Though a close second was the time spent sculpting the details on the planet surfaces.

This piece was great fun, and I'm so glad to have been given a challenge like this it really made me consider each part carefully and be very meticulous about things being just so.

Thank you for the motivation and for the idea!