This image I made after getting some feedback on my previous image about having more realistic effects in the image, so here it is, far different from the other image. This is my first attempt at this sort of realism so CnC roughly please. V2
It wasnt meant to be saturn.... And I havent really got any skills (whatsoever) on texturing or colouring planets, so it looks pretty bad right now EDIT: V2 is up.
Its just that black area on the far right of the ring thats bothering me. good job on the color though.
The rings you made are 257.5% legend! Only made close up shot of a ringed planet that looks like it would! Great job keep it up! Edit: Is CnC for getting comments/ways to improve on images?
From what I understand, CnC is people giving constructive criticism and comments, to help improve the makers ability to produce quality images. And I removed the black area from the V3 I have going, but I will need more then that to put it up here, so any other things that could be improved on, just tell me.
If's its the black part of the ring I wouldn't delete that. The first image I like more because it just gives the ring a awesome looking texture so you could try keep the light from v2 but put the rings back to v1 for v3?
aside from getting the ring just right, i really can't think of anything else you can improve on short of adding something new to it.
Background is much better, if you really did that. Perhaps a bit extravegant, considering the red would be heated gas, and images of space like of that nature are usually the products of supernovae, not the kind of thing to leave a planet intact. The lense flare should just be a little higher, so the center just peeks out. Your next step should be making the planet better. Larger planets have greater mass, and greater gravity than Earth. As a general rule of thumb, a bigger planet will have a larger atmosphere. This means that on the curve of the planet you should be getting a surrounding level of faint-ness that would be the planets atmosphere. At the moment you have a solid edge, implying the planet is dead and barren. Also the dust ring should be a little more transparent and a little less dense. The red from the background should really be coming through just faintly. Overall, you just need to work on your blending techniques to make it look less like you have certain renders placed one on top of each other, and more like you have one single image.
Wow, thanks for the input. You seem to know quite a bit about space in general, I never considered most of those points, mainly because I have never looked at that sort of stuff. The lens flare is unmoveable now, because it was placed in fairly early, and not on a layer of its own due to the nature of the tool. I guess the supernova idea works with the dead planet, as you could say that the supernova actually wiped out all atmosphere and scorched the planet, however I will attempt to add some atmosphere to the planet and see how it turns out. I am already working on improving the ring, so that isnt as much of an issue, and I did make it more transparent from V1-2 as well.