Interestingly enough this piece started out by me going through a TG2 forum and reading that Vue couldn't render high altitude shots, so I set out to see if that was possible and voila, here it is Camera is at 18km height, which is around the cruising altitude of the Concorde and the sky is a very dark blue at this height, I tried to recreate that.

You can see the original render here

Download for fullsize WHICH IS A MUST! BECAUSE THE COMPRESSION AND JPG ARTIFACTS ON THE LARGE VIEW IMAGE ARE UNACCEPTABLE D:

Planet and Landscape done in Vue. Rest done in Photoshop.



Some Details:
PSD Size: 450mb
Original render size of planet: 2400x1800
Texture map size of planet: 2000x1000
Landscape render duration: 22 minutes @ 3600x1644

AH. Daily Deviation!

Thank you. All I can say >.<