Planet Side Wallpaper

Calipso · 10-15-2004

Hey guys well this is my first shot on making planets as a wall paper. tell me what you thinck and what i could do to make it better

Planet Side Wallpaper

onbrid · 10-15-2004

The stars are just a noise filter right? Never, Ever make stars like that! Use greg martin's make a realistic star field tutorial. I don't like those smears of colour either, they just dont have enough depth and look very flat. Also saturn has huge rings they should be much bigger. For more ideas take a look at greg martin or gary tonge's site, they both produce spectacular space art.

Calipso · 10-15-2004

yeah well its my first try so :P atleast it looks good

yeah thanks for the start tut and those guys are pretty damn good

onbrid · 10-15-2004

It is good for a first atempt. Keep on trying you may wish the 'capturing heaven' article from greg martin's site it gives some nice pointers and teaches you about nebulae and other cool stuff.

Calipso · 10-15-2004

yeah well i changed the planet saturn to mars since the moon and mars are so common to our explorartion. That star tut is pretty well done and i like it the hard part was choosing what brushes to use :P

Planet Side Wallpaper

onbrid · 10-15-2004

The stars are much better but be careful try not to use the smudge tool too much. In the erasing stage use a nice hard brush with crisp edges and on 70-60% opacity. Then go in and clone using the same sort of brush.

The nebulae things are looking nice as well now you've spent some more time on them.

Calipso · 10-16-2004

ok well i fixed some stuff to make a clearer

Stiker · 10-16-2004

I dont know much about this kind of design work but from what i see the smudged areas look way to free handish. LOL they just seem really random inbetween star clusters. very noticeable. If you can get it to flow more through those areas you would like faded where stars would look farther away try a different stroke pattern etc. However that just really would take a steady hand and thats comes with time. I dont know if you gathered anything out of this ramble but that is what i can see. Very good start though i like the idea alot.

Calipso · 10-16-2004

yeah im going to redo the stars

Calipso · 10-16-2004

Ok well i did some more editing and thincking tell me if this is right

Planet Side Wallpaper

Gogf · 10-20-2004

Very nice! How'd you do the nebulas? They look amazing!

However, the edges of the gases around the nebulas don't blend too well :/.

Calipso · 10-20-2004

the nebulas where with a random shape and guassian to give it a blur effect then. Then with a bit of brushing and all the right ingrediants :P to make it look real i would say