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Full view.Many many hours of work. Very painstaking. First Spacey-ish pic by me ever. 100% science. Made via an LCD screen so the brightness may be off, adjust liberally if you wish to compensate. Entry for =Nameless-Designer 's contest.
Points on random stuff about this image. Firstly, this tree is not made out of wood. That's a gimme. It couldn't exist simultaneously on two different planets if it were made out of wood; the stress would be too great. Believe me, the physics of this are incredible. What is it made out of? Guess. You'll never get it right. Muahaha. Second, the principal planet, the one closest on which the glowing man stands, is many times larger than the others, and it is this world the others orbit around. The center planet on which the tree is primarily visible, here, orbits the first geosynchronously. That's the only reason the tree was able to grow between the two planets. It'll never make it to the third because the third planet, really more of a moon, has a less hospital orbit and will not be caught. Third, the center planet is inhabited, the other two are not. The bottom planet is simply too large, with gravity to match, to support human-like life. The top is obviously without atmosphere. The fact that the center planet is inhabited is important, because if you look in the top left corner, you will see glowy blue stuff. This blue stuff is material that is to be used by the inhabitants of the planet in construction of a Dyson Swarm. It is quite a remarkable undertaking. But why do all this? And what's the tree for? They all have their reasons.
This particular image is a piece of concept art. I intend to pursue the story further, if only because it's fun to think about the fantastic and nigh impossible physics of it.
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I originally intended to create this all from scratch, but as I was browsing through things to use for reference, I found some stocks and ended up using them in the actual image. Only two, though. Well, three, if you count the photograph of the pine cones, pine branch, mountains and lake; these are an image that my mother had taken of a reservoir somewhere, which I stole and used. Then there's the tree itself, which is a 3d stock I yoinked from =IWS-stock 's gallery, and then the roots on which the glowing man stands are clipped off of a different tree stock from =Shoofly-Stock .
This is so copyright of me.
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Comments: 15
SunshineVC [2007-09-07 18:20:14 +0000 UTC]
Love the details and intricacies. The little silhouette, individual pine needles, quite breath-taking really. The time you took is quite evident.
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Hraesvelgr In reply to James-Is-James [2007-08-29 07:57:13 +0000 UTC]
Also tiny coloured lights.
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Hraesvelgr In reply to SRSmith [2007-08-31 07:16:20 +0000 UTC]
Thanks, of course. I'm glad that people can enjoy my photohacks. It's one of the few things I do where I'm not always thinking, "I should be writing instead of doing this."
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IWS-stock [2007-08-26 21:08:39 +0000 UTC]
This is really good Love the colors too
Thanks for using our stock
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Hraesvelgr In reply to IWS-stock [2007-08-26 21:19:58 +0000 UTC]
Nono, thank you, of course.
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Darillian [2007-08-26 20:31:55 +0000 UTC]
Ouch! This is seriously sick!
I don't quite know how to explain this, but somehow the whole artwork has something... well, dreamy.
I love the small details, especially the little white silhouette
The only thing you could have done a bit better is to increase the contrast and lower the brightness of the starfield, it would look in my opinion more realistic that way
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Hraesvelgr In reply to Darillian [2007-08-26 21:22:24 +0000 UTC]
Ah, thanks so much for the compliment. It's nice that someone notices the details; I'm all about the details. And you're probably right about the starfield being too bright, but... I guess I just love shiny things too much to be in complete control of myself, there.
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li-li [2007-08-25 23:53:52 +0000 UTC]
alot of beautiful painstaking work. awesome , my
dear.
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