Saturday, May 29, 2010

Terrain Reference

I have aquired some nice references for the terrain of on the surface of Europa, courtesy of wikipedia.








The image above is an approximate natural colour image of Europa, taken from the Galileo spacecraft. This image is a good reference for the general colour of the scene. I will not go into detail how the colour and the features of the satellite emerged; it is not relevant in terms of the context of the machinima, majority of it is only suggestion/theory anyway.



















The image above is a close-up of Conamara Chaos. It reveals craggy 250-metre high peaks, and a jumble of smooth plates of ice.





The final image is an enhanced-colour representation of part of Conamara Chaos, revealing ice 'rafts' as wide as 10-kilometres across.

Although Europa is smooth in relation to other satellites in the solar system, its surface still seems to be chaotic and hazardous. In saying that, it will provide a nice environment for the characters to traverse through; and it shouldn't be too difficult to create.

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