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Published: 2004-06-03 18:47:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 2355; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 645
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This piece turned out to be a biatch to make. It gave me so much trouble yet i finally got around it.

After looking at my recent art, i've noticed that i've really started going down hill with my development. I hit a high point of art developing, then suddenly i started falling down hill. And now personally i feel like i've reached a n00b level of creation. And it annoys me. I mean, look at this piece compared to my bigger stuff, it doesn't compare. The terragen render is awesome, then the sky is too simple.

The terragen render took me 3 bloody tries to get it finished. One time i spent about 13 hours rendering the thing. It was just over 3/4's the way through, then my computer overloaded because i was trying to talk to people, watch movies etc and surf the web. My computer couldn't handle it and just shut down. I was sooooo pissed. Then i let it do its stuff at 1:30, woke up at 9 and the thing only rendered like 2 inches on the screen!

Finally i took one setting off and tried my final time and it rendered double the speed. In all it took me about 7 hours to complete. The final resolution was 3500x5000 pixels. After spending an hour in ps editing the render. I resized it to show a friend. Got back, and i saved it over the original psd and shut the program down. It was 22x32 inches at 150 dpi, now i'm stuck with the same dimensions at 72 dpi. So unless i do the whole thing over again theres not much change of print.

The sky ended up looking very cosmic, every piece now days is just planet here, planet there. And its basically all you can do. I decided to try stick a nebula in the distance to see what it looked like. And turned out pretty good.

Well, hope you guys enjoy my seemed disaster piece lol.

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Comments: 56

tempelguardian [2005-07-30 16:50:14 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Very cool, with nice detail! This one reminds me somewhat of the album cover of In Flames - Lunar Strain, good job!

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Empa85 [2004-09-05 04:53:17 +0000 UTC]

woooooowww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg that isss sooo fabulous awsome very ery veery super beautiful!

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Blackheart6004 [2004-07-02 23:02:12 +0000 UTC]



this is defentaly awsome.

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Aein [2004-06-17 23:49:37 +0000 UTC]

You should make this into a wallpaper pack, it's so damn good .

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Kamermans [2004-06-17 14:11:56 +0000 UTC]

WOW man this is good work! good nebula
the planet in the back makes it just fantastic! great work

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whopper [2004-06-11 14:25:16 +0000 UTC]

turned out quite nice mate, the terragen part is great - well done ... i admire your awesome nebula

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bluelance [2004-06-10 07:09:48 +0000 UTC]

mmm... nice render, but not liking the planet too much... the colours clash horribly at the horizon with the planet there, the reds and blues. the nebula is cool but it kinda just ends ubruptly and sits there alone, likes its a bit out of place... and those brighter stars around and them plain comets just dont cut it for me

never settle for something your not happy with mate... its the reason ive moved on from posting every little bitch piece i made and working on something untill i was completely satisfied with it, the reason i came back to devart again... but youve probably heard this before so meh...

keep it up

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vcross01 [2004-06-09 16:33:58 +0000 UTC]

wow this is just stunning !!!! one of my favorites from you
this i would consider buying a print of. excellent form everything fits so well. congratulations a real winner

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DerZerstorer [2004-06-09 03:55:20 +0000 UTC]

WOW!!! i like it, for sure

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Padawancats [2004-06-09 02:42:01 +0000 UTC]

I think it came out very well. I really like the big planet.

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equuleus [2004-06-06 13:48:53 +0000 UTC]

Brillant piece, i think it's by far one of your best! the space part is great, not busy and clutted like some, and of course the render is great! so a definate fav, but i think the "land" would look better with out the water, it reminded my of mars unitl i saw that, but still looks great!

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genocide-54 [2004-06-06 09:42:10 +0000 UTC]

Love the terragen, but then the landscape seems to blend to sharply into the spacescape. The neb looks pretty sweet and original but the comets look pretty bland, nice to see some new stuff regardless.

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reddhedds [2004-06-06 06:18:36 +0000 UTC]

defintely your best work ever

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bullseyepimp [2004-06-06 02:37:06 +0000 UTC]

beautiful texturework on the terragen part of the piece, and the colors& lanetwork are awesome

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aksu [2004-06-05 04:32:57 +0000 UTC]

i have to agree with you man...the terragen part is really stunning, the spce part ain't amazing though...it doesn't have the magic of space awesome level of detail as always, but i think there's something missing...hope to see more from you soon...i'm sure you'll amaze me with the next one

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Scinical [2004-06-05 00:21:31 +0000 UTC]

Stunning bro. That terragen render is flawless and I love how it looks downward and once you scroll up, it seems like you're turning your head upwards to the sky. The space part is equally stunning, I was renderind a big piece and my computer shut down as well...sucked......

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darkwispers [2004-06-04 13:53:54 +0000 UTC]

BEAUTIFUL

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lstjules [2004-06-04 12:37:04 +0000 UTC]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!! i love that.

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avireX [2004-06-04 10:19:59 +0000 UTC]

it looks really great

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nasht-01 [2004-06-04 07:46:24 +0000 UTC]

it's a great image!
the sense of scale is just huuuuge!!!

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furryphotos [2004-06-04 05:55:14 +0000 UTC]

I really like the surface map of the terrain but i think theres too much of a downpitch and makes the perspective feel odd for me. The planet work and all are nice but i dont really like how the planet was blended into the atmophere esp the portion near the center where it seems cut-off like that. Still overall i like the quiet-moody-mejestic feel of this piece. Certainly better than what i do anyways.

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psamtik In reply to furryphotos [2004-06-04 07:03:20 +0000 UTC]

If your talking about how the planets bottom half looks like its been cut off, then your wrong. Due to the horizon, the planet will look like that, and you can see it on many other accurate pieces too. Yet if you didn't mean this then, ok lol

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furryphotos In reply to psamtik [2004-06-04 10:47:28 +0000 UTC]

hmm looks like i havent been paying attention thanks for clarifying that.

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xueyen [2004-06-04 05:33:28 +0000 UTC]

awww~ meteorzzz very nice combination work

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3image [2004-06-04 05:18:42 +0000 UTC]

yeah it hink the flows is very nicely, well done1 fav+

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chiisu [2004-06-04 04:22:00 +0000 UTC]

i think it looks great

- Chris

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cosmicbound [2004-06-04 02:49:11 +0000 UTC]

ya not bad

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phyzer [2004-06-04 02:11:01 +0000 UTC]

i think its amazing, i like everything about it. The nebula looks gr8

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maui-dolphin [2004-06-04 01:54:24 +0000 UTC]

i see some issues with the terrain is seems too simple? Maybe its lacking some atmosphere perspective? I think the hills on the left side seem too clear. Is this just me? Otherwise damn this piece is amazing.

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spinninghead [2004-06-04 01:46:36 +0000 UTC]

I finally see the outcome of all your hard labour! It looks awesome hon, no worries.

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silentglaive [2004-06-04 00:59:07 +0000 UTC]

wow... i love it. the sky is amazing and i like the nebula...

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i337m1k3 [2004-06-04 00:44:45 +0000 UTC]

awesome disaster! i think this peice flows very nicely, i luv the planet texture and the terragen render

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tonare [2004-06-04 00:24:45 +0000 UTC]

You just keep getting better and better man...did you use t-gen for the landscape?
Great job.

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psamtik In reply to tonare [2004-06-04 04:36:59 +0000 UTC]

Well of course mate everyone knows that a tg render looks like

Dude, you seriously need to check out the specs for tg2

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54b [2004-06-03 23:12:26 +0000 UTC]

As an added note, I love the sky, it's gorgeous, simple.

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54b [2004-06-03 23:11:14 +0000 UTC]

Psamtik! You've outdone yourself! EXCELLENT!!!

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tibro [2004-06-03 21:29:12 +0000 UTC]

love it mate! amazing planet there! and a nice non-trend whore nebula too!

but, it bugs me that there isnt any reflection in the water apart from that its great!

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psamtik In reply to tibro [2004-06-03 22:23:09 +0000 UTC]

CRAP! thats the one thing i tried to remember doing! lol

thanks

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tibro In reply to psamtik [2004-06-04 11:19:40 +0000 UTC]

lol.. neva mind. .sorry for the double post :S DA seemed to be having a tantrum after all this new Journals

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tibro [2004-06-03 21:29:01 +0000 UTC]

love it mate! amazing planet there! and a nice non-trend whore nebula too!

but, it bugs me that there isnt any reflection in the water apart from that its great!

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dchon [2004-06-03 21:15:17 +0000 UTC]

wow if you call that noob work...that makes me uber noob

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dchon In reply to dchon [2004-06-03 21:17:02 +0000 UTC]

what do you know... I just said what he said...

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trinity-77 [2004-06-03 20:26:59 +0000 UTC]

wow if that's your n00b work, can i be a n00b too??? hehehe I RIKE IT!

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Pada-wan [2004-06-03 20:24:34 +0000 UTC]

Maybe you should have mentioned that you DIDNT do the nebula, that it is a real photo being used

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matt-catt [2004-06-03 20:09:07 +0000 UTC]

could do with a figure standing on the plain somewhere

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SupremeAlien [2004-06-03 20:08:36 +0000 UTC]

It's really pretty!!!

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duris [2004-06-03 20:07:25 +0000 UTC]

Very nice. Nebulae and planet looks superb.
Well done

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AngeloVentura [2004-06-03 20:02:29 +0000 UTC]

Majestic! Fave!!!

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rabidmongoose [2004-06-03 19:40:47 +0000 UTC]

Awesome piece bro.... here we go again DA ....

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alyn [2004-06-03 19:07:37 +0000 UTC]

yeaaaah you know it's sexy, definately the better of your recent works like you've said. Great planet work and subtle space backing, the transition is done nicely, the gradient is just right. In all, great image, i think the less than usual colour combination really tops it off.

(sorry if this sends more than once, DA is being a bitch with comments as it stands).

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