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The SR-71 Blackbird featured here is placed at 24km (80k feet), not the maximum height at which these amazing spy planes can reach!
Composed and rendered in VUE 2015 Complete
Scene comprises of 50k polygons @ 150 hours render time.
Photoshop was also used for colour balancing and vibrancy toning while Filter Forge was used to add a subtle chromatic filter.
This scene took a lot of experimentation to render at a proper length of time whilst maintaining a healthy level of quality for the clouds. The clouds can be rendered relatively quickly at the expense of quality so whilst I wanted to maintain a good quality for the cloud layer I really wanted to keep the render time down to something more realistic.
At 150 hours render time I don’t think I found that sweet spot. Clouds look pretty though 
Thanks for viewing, all constructive criticisms welcome!

Description

The SR-71 Blackbird featured here is placed at 24km (80k feet), not the maximum height at which these amazing spy planes can reach!
Composed and rendered in VUE 2015 Complete
Scene comprises of 50k polygons @ 150 hours render time.
Photoshop was also used for colour balancing and vibrancy toning while Filter Forge was used to add a subtle chromatic filter.
This scene took a lot of experimentation to render at a proper length of time whilst maintaining a healthy level of quality for the clouds. The clouds can be rendered relatively quickly at the expense of quality so whilst I wanted to maintain a good quality for the cloud layer I really wanted to keep the render time down to something more realistic.
At 150 hours render time I don’t think I found that sweet spot. Clouds look pretty though 
Thanks for viewing, all constructive criticisms welcome!