Mars 2017 Challenge: River Tethys

[Greg]

Nice update Francissimo. The mini-3D inserts are really neat and I like the inifinity gates going between them.

I can never get tired of looking at the stunning visuals of your maps!

[Mouse]

Your graphics are really powerful and very beautiful

I love the boldness of the call out images, which IMHO makes the callout lines look patchy and indistinct. Would they look better with thin constant lines - as bold as the callout images themselves?

[Ilanthar]

Sleek concept and very nicely (re)worked! The "portals" are more obvious this way.
Not so sure it's interesting to see the underwaters in the top left view, though.

[Francissimo]

Thanks for the feedback and advises, i'll try to rework a bit the map on some of the points you mentioned.
Here's another wip with 2 more maps, not sure i'll use the canyon one yet. For the ocean map i've used sketchup and twillight render to calculate lights on the stargates, it was a long work for my computer
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[Diamond]

Dang, man. You're going to have to expand your canvas!! And please please keep the canyon in - it's fantastic!

[Francissimo]

Yep i started to feel a bit stuck with that canvas!
Here's an update with work on stargates and on the canvas.
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[Mouse]

The master of space backgrounds strikes again!

I spend ages looking at all the pretty stars and nebulas.... sigh

[Francissimo]

Thanks Mouse
I'll try to be very soft on labels with the space background, i'm no sure how i'll do that.
Here's another update with a space part of the river. This one is a space station orbiting around a gas giant and containing a part of the river. This step of the river doesn't exist in the books but i wanted to try something like that
I worked mainly with sketchup and twillight render for this part.
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[Mouse]

Oh that's very veeery cooool

[Francissimo]

Thanks Mouse
I've been playing a bit more with the orbital structure concept, i've reworked light effects in twillight and the background with photoshop.
Here's a full size version
spaceart10.jpg