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the big polyphemus planet was a real challenge, even though it just looks like a blue jupiter it is not like it , james cameron wanted some particular detail and patterns on the planet, that later starting from textures provided by WETA ,I had to paint tons of details on this planet, pandora in this shot was totally done from scratch in photoshop and then projected in 3D geometry
polyphemus painting for this shot is 10K wide and 16 bit file, it was a huge photoshop file

this image is featured in the pandora's documentary and in the CINEFEX magazine

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enjoy in HD!
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~elementalectrofunk Apr 25, 2013
"...even though it just looks like a blue jupiter it is not like it , james cameron wanted some particular detail and patterns on the planet..."

Now see, that's really interesting to me.
I'm curious, what did he want specifically?

Your average movie-goer wouldn't have noticed if you had just used Jupiter and tinted it blue. Makes me wonder what details he wanted to set it apart from Jupiter. And why. Very cool.

Oh, and of course, awesome work!
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Mood: Joy *za4em9 Jan 16, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Huh... gorgeous image, as usual. However, the shadows don't match up: that little moon seems to throw a shadow at a wrong angle, considering the angle of light on the planets. But I'm nit-picking. I think the best thing here is the sense of immensity of the gorgeous blue giant as compared to Pandora: I think that this is your best accomplishment in this image.
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Mood: Cheerful ~sogfrog13 Jan 2, 2012  Student Digital Artist
I love it! and feel slightly smug that I understand the name :L but AWSOME work!
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=MatthewPaver Jan 20, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
so did you produce the still for documentaries/posters etc... or did you also do some of the in-movie CGI?
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*JJasso Jan 20, 2011  Professional Filmographer
it's not a still, it's a frame from the sequence I worked for, I worked for a total of 4 shots in this movie, look up for my credit at the end ;)
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~Not-Afraid Nov 7, 2010
Wow, you made this original? Good lord, that's amazing! *Goes to scope out Gallery*

Good work bro :)
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~nmeoo Oct 2, 2010
wow what an honor. It sounds like it was a lot of fun, even tho its hard. congrats, it came out amazing! :D
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~JarrettOnions Jul 12, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
u actually worked on avatar.. wow that must be a dream come true
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*sarah-d-anderson Apr 21, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
Amazing detail. :clap:
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Mood: Love ~DwarfVaderRus Apr 10, 2010  Student General Artist
This is awesome. My wallpaper for a month after the movie release :)
Though this is one of the most strange (to my mind) shots in Avatar. The big planet (Pandora is its satellite) is pretty much a recoloured Jupiter? lol maybe it's just me :)
And the ship seems pretty big to me :) Though this is OK (to my mind, again ^^), since this way the scene transmits the feeling it otherwise wouldn't.
Thank you and all the Avatar team for the fantastic work, and James especially. Thanks.
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