Titan’s Sky, oil on canvas. 30” x 30”
Back in the nineties I was commissioned by the US postal service to do some space travel related images. Amongst them was an image of two space suited figures looking up at Saturn from Titan’s surface. It was a somewhat fanciful depiction and it also marked my transition from traditional media to digital. It was early days and the software and hardware were primitive, consequently the rendering was crude. Hard ray traced shadows. No global illumination or subsurface scattering and the best environment generator, cutting edge at the time, was a piece of software called Bryce. The figures were modelled and rendered in Alias Sketch which later morphed into Maya,
Nonetheless, rendering quality not withstanding, the image proved popular. I sold many prints of it and it has been used for book covers around the world.
So it was a fun to be commissioned to create an oil painting of the same image and now it’s gone full circle, from digital, back to traditional media.
There is a Youtube video on the process here. https://youtu.be/AOWck6Bcw0c