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villekroger โ The Arrival
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Published: 2009-10-14 00:48:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2047; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 143
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"Prepare the landing craft, and bring the stowaways along. We have a meeting with an emperor."Related content
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amazing!, how can you do the lights on the dark side of the planet,ย love it!
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Thank you.
It's been a while, but I recall using parts of NASA's Blue Marble city light imagery ( visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.phpโฆ ), cloning them around and deleting some to create cities and continents. Then, based on how the left corner looks, I either skipped the part where the whole thing is rendered onto a sphere or didn't do the best possible work aligning it. I'm sure there's a good way between this and painting everything by hand, but the NASA images are a really good reference, if nothing else.
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I checked the link on nasa, pretty amazing, Iยดm gonna do a version with it, you have motivated me, thanks for the explanation mate, watch you by the way 
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oohhh your city lights are really nice!! ive been experimenting trying to make some, but they havent looked nice so far. I would love some tips on this too if you have the time
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Thanks. This is actually, if I remember correctly, based on NASA footage of light pollution they have on some page of theirs. After that, tedious clonetooling.
But I remember from making another of these some time ago, that networking, having them glow and putting in a random big blob of light every now and then go a long way.
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thanks for the tip, i did took some notes on it, but ended up making a scatter brush in photoshop, i think it still needs more detail, but it was a huge help seeing what you told me. so thanks again!!
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I'm glad my obscure ramblings could help.
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Very nice, the shadows cast by the clouds are amazing. I would add a bit more of a flare to the sun, it just doesn't seem like its bright enough. But overall its amazing.
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Thank you. Meant it to be quite a frigid world, but at the focal lenght this would appear to be shot at, yeah, the sun does seem a tad small, especially considering the amount of illumination on the surface.
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nice imagination... since your like a expert on drawing outerspace stuff, message me and i wanna tell you this idea to draw
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Thankyou. The expert-part is a definite overstatement, but ideas are always welcome.
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no dude yu desrve that title "expert" you make my artwork look like crapp
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Nice scene, but don't tell me the small sun is the caused of the brightness 
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Thanks. I'm just not quite sure I follow you there...
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Hmmm, in this spacescape is there a sun that bigger that one or closer ?
You're welcome by the way!
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Well, it's pretty much the size of Sol. Focal lenght tends to mess these things up, but it's the light source. The nebula has it's own.
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