Enterprise Coming home

I decided to put together some imagery with a model I made a couple of years ago. Originally I made the model in 3ds max and then converted it to Maya when I switched apps. But I hadn't done alot with it since then, as I've always been caught up with other things. I'm currently working on a related project (the Reliant over in wip), and I needed a break from modeling. So I decided to pull this model out of retirement and make a composition with it. All of the elements were rendered in 3d and then composited in Photoshop.

I also have a 1280x1024 version avaliable.

Looks good, but why is there a really fine dot pattern throughout the whole image?

Oh, and your linked image doesn't work.

[skyhawk223]

Pretty slick. I like the lighting. What would have really made the shot is adding an atmosphere to Earth.

There is one, it's just really really light.

[skyhawk223]

Yeah, I see it now. I was hesitant to post since I didn't want to inflame any of the "atmosphere vs. no atmosphere" discussions we've had in the past.

Meh, it may not be terribly realistic but I prefer seeing one myself.

thanks guys, yeah I know what you mean about the atmosphere thing - its a tradeoff on how stylistic vrs realistic you want to be. I debated it alot when putting this together. I decided to compromise by having a very fine atomspheric layer.