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GlennClovis — Aegiar Pass
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Published: 2009-07-06 02:59:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 6204; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 525
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About 8 hours of work, most of it in one sitting.Asteroids - Vue 7 and some PS tweaking
Starfield - Apophysis & PS
Everything else PS CS4
50 Layers or so (not counting the other 100 layers of stuff not used)
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Comments: 23
So colorful and bright. As cold as space is, I can't help but feel a warm soothing feeling looking at this.
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gorgeous gas giant! i have no idea how you do asteroids though. :/
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Thanks. 
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What is Vue? haha I'm still trying to learn of these amazing programs to expand my horizons.
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Vue is an environment modeling program [link] incredibly robust and easy to use.
Free personal Learning editions are here: [link]
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wow, I was screaming apophysis in my head when I saw this : ) Oh the beautiful things you can do with it. Nice job, very depthy
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Wow, this one is really impressive. Great job.
One thing that disturbs me is the starfield. It looks like the stars were ahead these nebula formation in the center of the image. In fact most of nebulae are to dense to let star's light get through it, so they should be invisible (or barely visible), 'cause the nebula simply covers them. In here the stars in the center are as white as another one's, and what is more, the starfield is visibly more close-grained into the bargain.
Unless the stars ARE ahead of the nebula. It'd be really enormous nebula then.
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It's a good point and I understand the perspective.
My thought process at the time was that the starfield depicted here is the result of a supernova(s)-spawn nebula and that millions of years had passed. The nebula has progressed very far into it's decay, as the gasses have either dissipated or more often than not, collected, compressed and given birth to new stars. As a result, the orientation of this picture does show an excessive amount of stars 'in front' of the nebula.
The funny thing is I created the starfield in Apophysis 3D. Even though it isn't real 3D, the perspective rendered seemed to fit this concept.
The scale of the nebula is indeed supposed to be massive, as I do most of my nebulae (the grander the scale the better
Thanks for the feedback and support!
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Oh, now I understand. Nevertheless it has to be a very massive (and dense) supernova - nebula is still quite visible (and has vivid colors) when it has at least few light years of length and breadth (or the newborn stars are very small and close-situated). But overall that makes sense.
Thanks for reply. Hmm, have I already mentioned I love this piece?
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Reminds me of the good o'l days before I came here and I used to paint my gas giants in such bright colours 
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Thanks!
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please tell me the starfield is done on purpose
love the gas giant
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lol, the Starfield was created with Apophysis. There's no way I would spend that much time painting each little star.
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