The only logical use for a finished space station until it’s incorporated into the main video :
http://www.solarflarestudios.com/gallery/browse.php?ID=10634548045
I used a terragen planet because I couldn’t get a decent Earth texture to load, but the rest is obviously Blender.
EDIT : And for those crazy people who aren’t fans of 2001, the image is based on this poster :
http://www.poster-pictures.com/304-Poster-Pictures-2001-A-Space-Odyssey.html
As always, all feedback much welcomed!
Very cool 
wow even better than the original
I love it!
one thing that “hit” me:
the planet is very “bright” on that side…but the lighting on the moon and the station is coming from the other side…so the planet should be dark on that side…no?
I suggest you to just change the light setup…well “inversing it”…so the station shadow and the moon are fitting with the planet
X-WARRIOR, said: Wow even better than the orginal.
It’s better because it’s made with Blender. 
Thanks everyone ! 
X-Warrior wrote :
the planet is very “bright” on that side…but the lighting on the moon and the station is coming from the other side…so the planet should be dark on that side…no?
Hmmm…you’re right, I think. Hard to tell since the planet was lit from a direction “into the page” as was the station, and the moon is just a texture (looks more convincing than a Blended one). Maybe I’ll play around with it a bit.
Oh and thanks to whatever kindly soul gave it a “5” rating on SFS !! That was nice.
Well, I did some messing about with the lighting, but it doesn’t really make any difference, so I’ll keep it as it is. Thanks for pointing that out though.
Any of the other 200 or so viewers have anything to say ? :-?
Super cool, man. Also,…every time I see that avatar, I want to make a silly green alien. I think I will do so. We’ll see who is the silliest! :Z
Hey,
Excellent reproduction There are a few compositional differences with the original poster that caught my eye, though I’m not sure if they are not intentional. For example the camera lens in the original seems to be wider angle, affecting the perspective. Also the rotation of the spaceship is a bit different. Anyways, I wouldn’t notice if there was no link to the original 
Congratulations!
sorry 
its awesome man, could we maybe see a larger version? maybe even desktop?
A nice remake to my favorite scifi movie poster
Thanks everyone !
aersoy : The differences aren’t intentional, they’re due to me getting lazy 
Actually I wouldn’t have thought of altering the camera angle to alter perspective as I’ve never touched it.
Modron : no way can you make a sillier alien ! I mean, look at the inane grin and badly proportioned feet ! You’d have to be utterly useless to come up with something that silly !
GFX Idiot : no worries, just though 200 views to 4 replies was a tad extreme.
I wanted to render it much larger so all the little greebles could be seen, but terragen can only render at 960*960 (and I can’t load a texture higher than 4k res in blender without it crashing, which doesn’t look very nice…I even tried looking for real photos of Earth from space to use but didn’t have much luck). If I can solve this problem somehow I’ll post a larger version, otherwise I might just post a nice big view of the station.
(there is one here : http://www.solarflarestudios.com/forum/download.php?id=242 however it has rather thick girders and no shadows)
@ner : cool !
Oh no!! You plan to release this short in .WMV format?!? I am in shocked disbelief! How could you do this to us? :o
OK enough of that, looking forward to this very much, even if it will be in windows media! 
That poster does look pretty dern good, dispite the difference in camera angles, lighting, but none of that really bothers me none.
AROtotheN : A 56k modem and not a huge amount of webspace will make you do crazy things to keep the filesize down…even using Windoze own file format !
Actually on second thoughts, WMV only allows 15 or 30 frames per second…which will wreck the music synching… I’ll probably resort to releasing it as a mini-series of DivX shorts. But I’ll think about that more when it’s much closer to completetion.
