My first submission

[B_Delacroix]

This is sort of a neat idea.

I hope my first submission is acceptable and enjoyable.

Arrival at Fomalhaut (http://www.redstone-atlas.net/gallery/Arrival.jpg)

It is part of a series I am working on for no other reason than fun and it is art for the sake of art.

The star system in the picture is this artists conception of the Fomalhaut star system. A bluish star with one planet and a protoplanetary dust cloud. This is a conceptual image of perhaps the first explorers to arrive at Fomalhaut.

I could go on more about why I made the models in the shapes I did but in the end it doesn't matter if the picture is pleasing to the eye.

All models done by me, it isn't a cut and paste.

The next image I in this series is: Unnamed (http://www.redstone-atlas.net/imgs/processed.jpg)

[Darasen]

Looks nice a bit dark but nice.
Did you do the texturing, lighting, atmopherics and rendering as well ?

[B_Delacroix]

Yes, the only exception being that the planet is using a generic jupiter image for a color map. The procedural material I made would have done just as well but render times were already high and the result was the same.

[Da_Dude]

nice

[Silvercalipso]

Looks pretty good. I would suggest smaller lines and possibly a deeper bump map level for the panel look. Those big black lines make the ship look more cartoonish. Or try actually modeling them. It all depends on how close you expect to get.

Maybe a map in the diffuse or gloss layers to break up the shine on some of the ships too.

[Lex Talionis]

I recognize the ship in the "untitled" looks like an X33 / Venture Star design. My father did some work on that project.

Great work!

[Jaarx]

Very cool in concept.

Even though I'm not a 3D artist, I do have a few suggestions.

The textures look a little too smooth, and if roughened up a bit, I think would look even better. The lines on the ship are also, as said, just a tad too thick.

It would also be great if you could do some short of glow effect on the boosters of those smaller ships. I think you can find how somewhere here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/