Ringed planet

Roman_K2

Just messing with the IG Iray SFX shaders and props on a primitive sphere.  Lots of post work to get a bit of glow on the edges and so on.

Saphirewild

Nice work on that planet, so what you gonna name it?? 

Roman_K2

I guess I was influenced by the "Avatar" color palette, har.  I should try a "ring of fire" next. There's hundreds of cross-combinations in the special effects set.

A thought: this sort of lightweight SF stuff reminds me of "Cosmic Zoom" and other National Film Board of Canada animations. Watch on-line. (Youtube link)

Write-up in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Zoom

While I'm at it I may as well plug Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Meeting With Medusa".  I'm not sure if it's possible to read that one without subscribing to the on-line version of Playboy. I'm not really wild about their (Playboy's) experiments with their proprietary browser though... they kind of rushed through their OCR scanning and processing.