Sunrise Over Boreas

[arsheesh]

Hi all, well, here was my entry for last month's challenge. The challenge was to create a map of an extreme environment. I chose to do a sci-fi piece depicting an ice-moon (Boreas) that was home to a mining colony. Here are two different versions of this piece: one of which is more of a planetary view, and the other of which is more "map-like".

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[eViLe_eAgLe]

I love it, I especially like the subtle textures on it, and the statistics by the side. Simply brilliant!

[Jaxilon]

I love the planet version because it feels like I'm in a ship flying towards it at the beginning of a movie. I can imagine the music playing already. Well done man!

[Gidde]

Ha! Your mappy one almost perfectly matches my current desktop. My transparent taskbar is exactly that shade of purple and the desktop image is a slideshow of saturn's moons. Needless to say, I LOVE that version. It's nice to see a sci-fi overlay that isn't green.

[arsheesh]

Thanks guys!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[AaFen]

Have you thought of lighting up the colony, it being on the night side? I think that would give a really cool accent to the picture.

[gen]

Great science-fi depict! I really like the smooth quality of the lighting and the minimalist style is quite accomplish. Not too much, just enough.

[arsheesh]

Have you thought of lighting up the colony, it being on the night side? I think that would give a really cool accent to the picture.

I hadn't considered that, but it's a good idea. At the moment though, I'm knee-deep in my studies (I'm in the middle of a PhD) and don't really have the free time to play around with the map.

Great science-fi depict! I really like the smooth quality of the lighting and the minimalist style is quite accomplish. Not too much, just enough.

Thanks Gen, nice of you to say.

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[khumphries]

This is beautiful! I love the planetary view. It is so realistic looking!

[Kolyana]

Stunningly gorgeous. Love the map-like labelled one.