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Anim8or Challenges / Re: Challenge #29: GIANT ROBOTS!!!
« on: March 20, 2012, 10:22:18 pm »
It is my entry, but it's still WIP. I need to add a background, more detail, and change the camera position.
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In my minds eye, I see the post-cataclysm Neptune being a sick yellow/orange colour, perhaps with a blueish tinge at the poles, with massive and violent storms through the equatorial regions as previously-frozen gasses well up from the boiling interior. There might also be a gaseous 'tail' streaming away into Neptune's dark side, much like a comet's, as the outer layers are stripped away by the solar radiation.If Neptune was more orange/yellow, I'd have a hard time recognizing it and I'm sure most people would too. Massive, violent storms would be doable, as would some color adjustments. Maybe instead of making it orange with blue poles, I could keep it blue but with yellow/orange wisps floating through the atmosphere like smoke. I doubt, though, that a planet the size of Neptune would have a tail behind it, considering its distance from the sun. I could see Earth or Jupiter having a cometlike tail but no Neptune. I'm about to start work on a "hot Triton" texture based on the one from here: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html