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Description
halΒ·cyΒ·on [hal-see-uhn]adjective;
1. calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
2. rich; wealthy; prosperous: halcyon times of peace.
3. happy; joyful; carefree: halcyon days of youth.
4. of or pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
Some alien probe obliterating or mining a planet. Somewhere. Far, far away. You decide which it'll be.
Inspired by:
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Background: Textured environment (starfield), plus digital painting. My work.
Meshes: Mars Probe by Kenny Mitchell. Rendered in sequence to create the 'panel ring' and heavily modified pre-render and PS.
Composition: Scene and lighting setup in LW, final composition in PS, including all FX.
Original size: 2500x1250.
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Comments and critique welcome.
Thank you to *TreeClimber for the usual WIP input!
Updated SEP 2012.
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Comments: 56
I don't know why, but this reminds me Mass Effect 
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Thank you. Mass Effect is a great game series, so I'm honored you compare my work to it.
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I would never have recognised my little Martian Lander model in a million years. Very nice work.
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Thank you. I'm glad you have no objection to the creative approach I used it in.
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WOW! This is sweetness here! I love the solitary splash of color at the base of the beam/blast. Awesome stuff!
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Nice job friend 
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Thank you very much! I find that getting the lighting and color balance right is the most time consuming part of any creation process. Nature doesn't make it easy.
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That's quite alright. I have many of those every single day...
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Hi, your beautiful artwork has been selected and featured on as part of the Artist of the Week.
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Thank you very much for that.
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Two or three of them... maybe.
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This great work has been featured in journal [link]
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Thank you very much for that.
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Every hackers dream, to controll a deathbeam satellite to destroy ever foe in a flaming forum 8D
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Yup. That'd be an interesting 'toy'...
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Great work my friend and it's good that you shown your inspiration.
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Thank you. And yeah, I do when I can. Usually I just get random ideas myself, but not in this case.
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You're welcome! It's ok to be inspired, as long as the original artist is ok with it, so I see no problem here
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I've not asked since I haven't used any of the original piece's elements...
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This is a minunderstood probe. ItΒ΄s actually melting ice caps on planets to help terraforming them.
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That's a cool idea. Why not?
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First off WOW, second I don't know why but this looks so familiar. I'm getting this strange sense of Deja vu from it.
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Thank you.
Well, `alexiuss did something similar recently in one of the comic panels (see description) which is what inspired me to do this, but other than that... the only immediate correlation I can come up with is a James Bond movie.
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I checked the link in the Description but that wasn't what made yours seem so familiar to me and I'm not to big on James Bond. When I saw yours My mind was like whoa I've seen that some where before. But where?
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I'm not sure to be honest. I can't think of anywhere else. I'm sure if it was in some kind of movie or relatively recent TV show (other than James Bond) I would remember seeing it...
If you do remember, please let me know though. I'm curious...
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If I Remember where I've seen something Similar to your Picture I'll be sure to let you know.
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That'd be great. Don't wanna get caught with my pants down having someone scream 'idea thief' down my throat without knowing why that's actually happening!
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I don't think It'll come to that, but if I come up with something I'll tell you. Of course it might just be nothing.
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Naa, I was joking, but you never know. The internet is like a global inquisition at times. Or as some people tend to put it so eloquently: "Like, OMG!"...
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