Hyperion Scenes WIP
 

Sorry they're largish. Two of my new scenes using the Hyperion.

<a href="http://www.concept40.com/galleries/sciartpost/Hyp_sc001.jpg" target="_blank"># 1</a>

<a href="http://www.concept40.com/galleries/sciartpost/Hyp_sc002.jpg" target="_blank"># 2</a>



[This message has been edited by Thomas P (edited 10-04-2000).]

Absolutely beautiful. I like the first one because the unusual angle of the planets and of Hyperion's approach, the wide angle view of the nacelles, and the complete abscence of a lens flare. The second one is also very nice.
**Always approach weird alien artifacts with extreme caution!**

I've only just noticed the rings on the near planet in the first pic. You might want to punch up the lighting or color a bit to make them more noticeable. I only saw them where they cross the planet and mistook them for just some dark banding. Dont' resort to lens flares, a thick starfield, or a big nebula (too easy).

Re: pic 2...

Surfboards of the Gods?

Sorry. A flashback from my high school days.

Fantastic scenes. Although I think Masao has to adjust his monitor http://www.startrek-forums.com/gladi...ilies/wink.gif, I have to agree that the rings should be brighter - and a bit noisy.

Okay surfer dudes - scene 1 with brighter and 'rougher' rings.

Note that I did reference real planetary ring photos and the type of resolution that you see on Voyagers intro shot only exist if you are literialy sitting on top of these things. I tried to duplicate the detail seen at the range I am from the planet.

<a href="http://www.concept40.com/galleries/sciartpost/Hyp_sc001b.jpg" target="_blank">1b</a>

Man I have such a bad case of typo-itis lately.

[This message has been edited by Thomas P (edited 10-05-2000).]

Brighter is a better, and following Bernd's suggestion, I also turned up my monitor a bit. I wonder, however, whether the rings would be divided into different colors like that. I thought they would all be one color. Also, I think that at that distance you probably couldn't see individual rocks so the rings wouldn't really appear so rough.