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Submitted: June 5, 2010
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Arrakis v1 by ~i0nah

Digital Art / Drawings / Space Art

I attempted to create an artistic view of Arrakis (aka Dune)

for this, I followed the amazing tutorial from

- The Grand Planet Tutorial (see there : [link] ) - using as raw material GoogleMap screenshots.

for sure it can be improved, and I still need to review the technical part : like on the planet's edge, texture is too pixellized and the atmosphere should also be smoothed a bit.

I had some issues with the star field in background and need to find a better approach. Next time, I'll also try to add a sand storm - would be terrific !

If any of you have a tip for improving this work, please let me know about

PS 1 : v1.01 - download for full view
PS 2 : v1.02 - starspace "upgraded"
PS 3 : v1.03 - starspace "upgraded" - scalable 1680x1050px

~askarisdunensis Aug 11, 2010

merveilleux

=bloknayrb Jul 10, 2010

Hm... I actually really like the starfield. Also, the pixellation at the edges of the planet isn't really noticeable at this resolution, so I'd say it's ok.
Nice work!

~i0nah Jul 11, 2010

Thx !!
the pixelization on the edge is obvious in the .psd file, I had to trick in a no really orthodox way to smoother it.
I shall practice more

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=bloknayrb Jul 12, 2010

Well I think what counts more is the final result, which looks smooth here. I always try to create my planets at a size large enough that the pixellation isn't noticeable in the final result.

~i0nah Jul 12, 2010

my .psd file is up to 850 MB and the file format is 5400x5400 px
above might very very challenging for the CPU ...

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=bloknayrb Jul 12, 2010

So that's fine for just about anything, I wouldn't worry about it

~ArrakeenSandChigger Jun 9, 2010

Nice.

~Vanguard3000 Jun 5, 2010

Beautiful planet, i0nah! The detail is awesome.

I think you need some more detail on your starscape, though. I can barely even see the stars.

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~i0nah Jun 6, 2010

for your comment.

indeed, the star-scape need some more shining... I'm looking after a proper tutorial and proper technique.

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~Vanguard3000 Jun 6, 2010

I used this one for my space stuff:
[link]

But I make an inverted black gradient bar in PS to dull out the stars on the top and bottom, and add some "clouds" to give a sort of "milky way" effect. I also found it helps to select some of the brighter stars, copy-and-paste them to a new layer, and scale up the size to add some size variance to the starscape.

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