My newest work, also my submission for the Spaceartists ( ) second devpack, Impacts.

Spent a long time on this, longer than usual. The flaming planetoid is in a separate file and is much higher native resolution. Don't even bother starting to nitpick any science you might assume is behind this, because this is 100% art (A lot of the stuff in this I did just for effect, a couple of ideas I've been tossing around for awhile).

I dislike a few small things about this, mostly relating to the image above the actual physical mass of the planetoid (I need to learn about shadowing and smoke a bit more) and perhaps in the starfield, but I tried other versions of the starfield and they all didn't look as good.

A like a few larger things about this image: It feels warm. Sure, the planet is gonna be wiped out by a huge flaming meteor/planetoid, but it feels so COMFY.

Secondly, the radiance effect reflecting from the moons. You can see it if you look close, it's like heated gas flowing off the surface. And also the little "pockets" of warm-colored nebula gases around the moons, I also enjoy that. And the planetoid itself, I think I managed the break-up of it well.

Anyway, now that I wrote you a book, enjoy. Nobody's prolly gonna read this anyway.