Hello, moving to blender and practicing with tools right now. Wanted to get some feedback on first major render. Mostly concerned about composition of scene. Thanks!
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looks nice.i like the stylized look with the river, hills and desert waves,and atmosphere.the planet appears a bit small or the landscape too big proportional.
I tend to agree. When you design your scene, "of course, you are the artist," and therefore you have complete prerogatives … but please work to make all of your decisions blend together. For instance, “both planets are ‘bumpy,’ but the Earth-planet is very out-o-scale.” Try fiddling with the geometry there, making it more in-scale … (if I’m 25,000 miles up, those mountains must be 25 miles high …)." And then, give a little thought about your spaceship – having wandered into a solar system with a “funky planet” and its “funky moon,” why, this spaceship just looks like “something straight out of [corporate] NASA!”
But hey … let me backtrack here … it’s a start, and it’s a very good start. The lighting on each component looks good, and there’s a good sense of relative brightness among the three components. The composition is “classic triangular” and very clean. The treatment of “blue atmosphere” around the edge of the Earth-planet is very effective. What you have done here … you have done very well.
Thanks for the feed back! I would like to move on from this project as it was really meant as just an intro to blender for me so I am going to avoid redoing the satellite. However, since the planet was made in substance I was able to just tile it some more without issues and get a dirty render out. I do see what you mean about scale now. Looking back at the old render it does seem way to big even for a stylized piece.
I will probably avoid reducing the scale more then this as it brings in artifacts unless I use crazy amounts of polygons.
looks more believeable now.you can add a cloud layer if you want.simply make a sphere, that is a bit bigger than the planet,and make a material with a transparent shader and the tex shader into a mix shader,and the cloud tex into the mix shader fac too.
Was thinking about that myself! Will have to try once I’m back from work.