Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Viking program. I created this image because I always wondered what happened to this craft which was never heard from again. So I created this rocky and dusty scene to create a story for what happened.

I used ZBrush for rocks, some sci-fi plants, the model came free from the NASA website and World Machine 2 was used for the background hills and a sci-fi atmosphere. There were a lot of adjustments just to get the dust and sun effect right. I spent two hours just on this aspect.

PROJECT SO CLOSE
SOFTWARE USED VUE 10 XSTREAM, ZBRUSH 4, PHOTOSHOP, WORLD MACHINE 2
RENDERING TIME 4 HOURS ON AN INTEL QUAD 4, 8GB RAM MACHINE

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