Terragen - Fields of Cydonia

tigaer-design.com proudly presents: postcard from the fields of cydonia

vangelis - "conquest of paradise".
james horner - "coming home from the sea" , perfect storm soundtrack. my musical recommendations while viewing this pic. the electric guitar, in the horner piece, comes soooo damn sweet.

first of all... this is a MARS scenery. to EVERYONE - it's NOT wanted to be as realistic as possible. it's just the way i want to present mars. i know the surface is very unimpressive... - the whole planet seems to be just a piece of sandy rock. but i tried to present the next conquest of mankind in another light. and i think it came out quite nice. inspiration to this piece is to find in the galleries of `hameed - ~skurvy - ~steve-o-mac - `dinyctis - the movie 'mission to mars'. in the movie is this one very impressive scene where the camera swings over the landscape and captures a big sandstorm. with tornados etc - excellent job by the digital effects crew. that's what inspired me to do such a piece. it was quite a challenge to me - tried new ways of texturing. in the end everything turned out as i wanted.

a little gimmick aside... i added a original aerial picture of the region cydonia, taken by the nasa, within the pic. used it as a texture. just to add a slight bit of authenticity.

rendered with // terragen ver. 9.19
rendered resolution // 3200x2400
pre-production in terragen // ca. 2 hours
rendering time // ca. 6 hours
render without post process // [link]
post process done in // photoshop 7/CS
post process time // ca. 12 hours
total filesize // *.psd with a res. of 3200x2400 -> 220mb
total layers // 30
wallpaper resolution // *.jpg in 1280x1024

FULLVIEW ESSENTIAL!!! (sorry for the nearly 1mb - but it's worth to take a look)

happy viewing...