After a long travel our scientists reached their destination.
Worked on this about a week on the evenings.
Lots of arrays and image texture bashing to get the station done.
About 1.4million tris, procedural aurora shader (was fun to create from scratch again 
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Rendering in cycles, post processing in blender and gimp.
WIP thread with the progress here:
Artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQKBa6
Nice. I cobbled together an entry but ran out of steam towards the end. I’ve submitted it, but don’t have the willpower to texture it properly. I keep forgetting to check these challenges nearer when they start rather than a few days before they finish. Am I right in thinking there’s usually about a week after one contest ends before the theme for the next one is announced?
Cheers, yeah there is like a week downtime, before the next one is announced.
Pro tip: try to simply slap images on your assets, much quicker that way 
Edit: made an animation
Whoopsie, probably not possible to upload that as gif, follow the artstation link to see it:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQKBa6
Beautiful work, mate 
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
I knew you’d do well, congrats on 2nd place, Lino!
Thank you all, that was a fun one 
Super glad, that i managed to snag the second place, after the third try at the challenge finally a podium!
