CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "Planet Scanner" - by VERTEX MONSTER (Blender EEVEE)

Planet Scanner is a very short experimental film designed to show the capability and the potential of the Eevee render engine in Blender.
The film composed of different render experiments in the genre of space travel that were made using Blender and rendered in Eevee.

Design/Production/Direction - VERTEX MONSTER
Sound Design - VERTEX MONSTER

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Visual quality, colors and art direction is good, but I think you have a scaling problem.
The DOF makes everything look like a miniature model and the height map looks too noisy to be a planet surface seen from far away. Both together give this feeling of closeness rather than a feeling of immense depth.
You applied defocus in post and used a vignette as mask? - Don’t do that. It’s not what a camera does.
The height map looks like a close up of a rock, because there isn’t a separation of big, medium and small details.

Thank You for your critique! I will keep that in mind for the next project.