nice

Love this...mix of library and astronomy tower...well done author

Very nice idea,lighting is very good,maybe to make upper right corner a bit lighter because is closer to the central bug then lower left,and u have the same lighting on both sides...Beside that very nice final result...good luck author

Great message and nicely done. I like that you took the time to make them different sizes etc.

Nice

Nice work! But a suggestion: instead of using a new layer filled with pure black, try to use, on this new layer, a very large soft black brush with 10% opacity, applying half of its diameter, or less, around the image border until you get satisfied with the result. You can always use the eraser tool with the same settings. It'll give you more control on your work and it'll look more natural Good luck!

Maybe give it more light, the vignette makes it very dark...

Very nice idea, i like the difference in size and orientation. Great job!

Congatulations!

Congratulations for 2nd

Congrats for your second place, Wlado!

boring hU? not boring to the eye...

I dont know much about 3d construct but i like the overall image. GL

interesting. like the effect of the image.

this is a wonderful use of the source image author. love the blue hues.

Good work.

nice image,gl

Planet has to be behind the clouds! Also, scale of the background & forground water is incompatible.

All of the large planet would be visible, even the dark side...

great entry.. congrats on your placement.... all entries are winners in this hard comp.

amazing... Good Luck.. Looks really cool...

The fainted planet looks as if it stands in front of the clouds.

Congrats!!

Author: nooo, don't change to UV if you like the present result. If that's the result you wanted to achieve then that's what it is. In that case you could enchance the melted effect by adding an adjusted version of the ground texture image to fit as a bump and/or diffuse map.

nice image.

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

Congrats!!

congrats

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!

...and congrats again

Congrats

well done

congrats on your first place

Congrats, this really is well done

Congrats, really nice work

Very nice job......G/L Author.

I'm glad you spent the enormous amount of time to re-render it! By doing that the great ground texture is visible.

The only flaw I can see is that you've applied it planar - stretching it when it gets steep. You could fix this by making UV-textures, adding a displacing texture on steep parts, or simply reproduce a similar effect with procedural bump and color textures. But don't get me wrong, I still like it.

Great, looks so realistic!

i would have been more impressed if you learnt the tutorial then made something you could call your own design. To me this is just copying someones art. Tutorials are only there to teach, not to take credit for.

I saw your little problem, if you dont mind..1. you have Optimize modifier, this can reduce 20-30 % poly whitout visibile quality loose 2. according SBS you made„few planes”. why ?can make a single plane, convert to Edit Poly or Mesh, apply displacement map and then,for adjusment, select one or more poly (see also Soft selection) and move on Yaxis with Move tool. This will take few minutes more than displacement but will reduce dramatically poly number and render time. And you will have a full control of how your planet will look.

Are you kidding me - an hour?! That's nothing when it comes to one frame 3D rendering! My late test render usually takes about an hour and my final at least 4H!

C'mon now, crank up the details and let the CPU burn over night. There's plenty of time until deadline. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curious about the details.


(About the poly-count, I know the feeling. I'm sure 3DSMax has some sort of polygon reducing function)

I do like it, it looks good in LO-res, but it's impossible to review any details.. so, please render a bigger HI-res version!

Beautiful!! Not too much.....not too little.....just right!! A winner for sure!

Fantastic!

I do like it...awesome!

Top job, very realistic and not overdone.

Love this one, the dust in the light adds some realism. Top effort!