Saturn, Saturn, and more Saturn!

David of Mac

I recently realized that I'd been putting off making a scene of Saturn, even though I knew what I had to do to make it work. Seizing the opportunity to do some work in Layout again, I made a scale reproduction of Saturn, it's rings, and five or six moons (the ones I found good maps for). I've already made similar set-ups for Jupiter and Earth. While I was working on it, I came up with ideas for three pictures using it, so here they are.

[url=http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Astronomy_files/Saturn%20Beauty.jpg]"Gossamer"[/url] is just a beauty shot of the planet.

[url=http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Star%20Trek_files/SFA%20Drydock.jpg]"Take Us Out"[/url] is a Star Trek picture that's something of a riff on the end of the computer game "Starfleet Academy," where the [i]Enterprise-A[/i] is seen in drydock around Saturn.

[url=http://web.mac.com/david_of_mac/iWeb/3D%20Website/Stargate_files/Serpent.jpg]"Ouroboros"[/url] is a Stargate SG-1 picture, based off the first season cliffhanger. I felt like the the picture needed a quote, but I couldn't think of anything specific, so I searched Google for quotes relating to the word "serpent" until I found something that was apropos to the situation.

Stingray

Sweet renders batman, that first beauty shot truly has that particular hard lighting to it that one would expect in the vacuum of space.

As for the Enterprise, one hardly notices the presence of Saturn, the camera is possibly too close to the ship.

All your base are belong to us? :D

croxis

Wonderful work!

Falcon1

Cool!