Mars - Labyrinthus Noctis

Labyrinthus Noctis is at the end of the Valles Marineris formation on mars. The entire formation is 4 000 km across and Labyrinthus Noctis is one fourth of this giant complex.

This is yet another of my mars renders. I've been experimenting a lot and been post-render-processing it in photoshop like hell. Terragen is a pain when it comes to colours and shadows.

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University will soon close for this period and summer holidays are approaching, which means more time for space art and my solar system series :)

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Edited by Fahad

Really good!

One question though; how do you create those renders?
Do you use satellite images, or do you create them all by hand, or do you have any other technique?

Just wondering, 'cause all my renders turn out, err, bad..

Whicked... awesome work...

Must make a mental note to get terragen and pick your brain later ;)

Keep up the excellent work !

I think the image would be a lot better if you had more than one color tone.  I'd make some sections a bit more red, some darker, etc.  It would add a lot of variety.

Hi Fahad,

Very nice job. If I wanted to draw a surface like this for some landscapes, I suppose that I couldn't do it with only Photoshop.

Grand rêveur

Grand rêveur wrote: Hi Fahad, Very nice job. If I wanted to draw a surface like this for some landscapes, I suppose that I couldn't do it with only Photoshop. Grand rêveur

You could, actually.

Excellent and very impressive. Especially I like these faint shadows and the filmy fog. Did You use a space-probe-photo for the bump-map?

Thanks for your input folks 


Elfstone and Re(i)mbrandt, I made this piece through satellite data of the planet in terragen. I brought the render into photoshop to do some serious touch-ups. Terragen makes many errors while rendering, which cannot always be helped by messing with the different functions.

Dinyctis, thanks man, your input is always worth it's weight in gold :)

Hi Fahad, very fine picture indeed fellow Viking, very fine picture indeed.  You are absolutely correct on serious post work for Terragen, VUE and Poser also need some serious post work too and their aren't free like Terragen is.  Again outstanding job and congrats on surviving another college year.  It shouldn't be much longer until you are through with everything-things will get easier (nice secret about working on a job that you love).  Jan

Hi, Fahad.

There´s a poster on my wall from National Geographic. Mars. And I always want to see close ups. Thanks for making one. A real good one.

Greets