do you think this galaxy looks real

[crazysalt]

i am making a project for science about the solar system, I am using flash to put it all together but would like to know so far does this galaxy look real color wise, i will later flatten it then transform it and make it look like the second picture but would like to know if the colors are good.

[Freakinhugelittleguy]

NO, it looks like the inside of a tunnel

how would I know, I dont space travel :P

[crazysalt]

this is the second picture, again not final colors but final format

[BlueHippo]

The first one looks like the light at the end of the tunnel, the second one is closer, but the galaxy is still too circular. Should be more elliptical. The texture on the outside looks a bit like a vinyl, but you said not final colors.. make it a lot brighter, and with more variety in it as well.

[Fatchaos]

At 2/27/09 08:50 PM, crazysalt wrote: this is the second picture, again not final colors but final format

The 2nd one is better, not that "tube" feeling this time... However, in space, the shape "round" is not the ultimate shape that was so long proposed for it, so go ahead and use more oval styled shape for the galaxy. And I have to agree with BlueHippo there, the coloring as a tad too dark & dull at the moment, add variety :P

But even still, its a good piece.

[TheBoard]

Work on making it fade out more as well. Right now it looks too cut-out.

[crazysalt]

cool thanks for the input guys ill repost the final pic soon so check back ill also post the earth i drew.

-Sanford

[noahmart]

Looks nice

[MegaMelmo]

The center is too large for the basic galaxy you see everywhere on tv and other stuff. Also, try making it seem as though you can see the individual stars. Not all of course, but some. The second one is better. Good luck!

[crazysalt]

all right here is the earth and ill post the mars i made and then the new solar system

[crazysalt]

heres mars

[crazysalt]

here is the new galaxy

[sven647]

No for both of them it doesn't look like a cluster of starts it looks like a bunch of blotches when it should be little dots everywhere and some aura around it from the light

[cmkinsac]

little late on the draw are we, sven? Its been 3 hours since he posted the two he was referring to. Try commenting on his RECENT one.

@OP:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitze r/multimedia/20080603a.html

you should use that to make your galaxy more accurate.

[Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud]

The outsideof the swirl looks too cut up and detatched. Make they connected more, maybe a bit of debris flying off, but not glitchy like that.

[VictorNiss]

At 2/27/09 08:46 PM, crazysalt wrote: i am making a project for science about the solar system, I am using flash to put it all together but would like to know so far does this galaxy look real color wise, i will later flatten it then transform it and make it look like the second picture but would like to know if the colors are good.

it looks nice, only thing i can say is make more inconsistencies. if no two snow flakes are the same then nature DEFIANTLY cant make galaxies near symmetrical. moar nebula and clouds within the spirals. thats like a tiny little suggestion.
because it dose look pretty,

i wanna touch it!

[Lemmiwinks91]

mars looks goo and so does galaxy but the earth isnt nice. use more tertiary colours than vibrant or something. keep it up :D

[540Degrees]

The very first drawing looks like a light comming out of the end of a sewer pipe. The others look kinda good.

[Cyberdevil]

Planets look amazing, and so does the galaxy, though it seems to me the surrounding darkness is just a bit too blank, likewise for the fiercly shining center.

[Kazimaru]

I agree with the person that said it looks like the light at the end of the tunnel. I think the second one is better because it looks more like what you are trying to show. Eh I think I said that wrong...

Anyway both are good

[crazysalt]

At 2/27/09 11:28 PM, cmkinsac wrote: little late on the draw are we, sven? Its been 3 hours since he posted the two he was referring to. Try commenting on his RECENT one.

@OP:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitze r/multimedia/20080603a.html

you should use that to make your galaxy more accurate.

hey man thanks a million for that link i have been looking for a good photo of the galaxy. Of course i didn't even think of nasa go figure....

thanks to all the other people that have commented i think i'm going to re-draw the galaxy from scratch (oh boy), ill make it a little less heavily swirled, better colors and more variance in the formations. Then ill re-do earth, hopefully it will look a little bit better the second time through, cant remember who said it but you right the earth had to much bright colors in it, ill tone it down a little. Then those are like the three hardest planets ill just vary size and color of mars to make the others and add some opacity and craters then it should work out thanks a million ill post a link to the finished swf. which of course will be very cheesy, its for 8th grade un-honors science so i have to make it look pretty and interesting, not as factual, but next year ill be in all AP :P woo-ho so ill be with students who actually care about at least going to 4 year collage....

again thanks,

-Sanford

[crazysalt]

At 2/27/09 11:28 PM, cmkinsac wrote: little late on the draw are we, sven? Its been 3 hours since he posted the two he was referring to. Try commenting on his RECENT one.

@OP:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitze r/multimedia/20080603a.html

you should use that to make your galaxy more accurate.

hey dude again this link has helped me even further it gives an approximation of where we are within the galaxy !!!! i would have spent hours most likely having to use a formula to figure out our exact position within the galaxy but now i can just look here thanks a ton again

[cmkinsac]

thanks salt. :D I would post a picture of earth, but thats just a google search away.

[crazysalt]

ya lol