Mark A. Garlick's Space-Art.Co.Uk

HR 8799

Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star (HR 8799) are destined to be pin-balled around their Solar System when their Sun eventually dies, according to a study led by the University of Warwick that peers into its future. Astronome...

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, crescent phase, exoplanet, HR 8799, main-sequence, pre...

Showreel 2023

This video is a showreel featuring 16 of my recent animations with a space and/or science fiction theme. Most were done in Blender, but the older ones were created in 3DS Max.Music is 'King's Trailer' by Rafael Krux....

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, Blender 3D, space, art, animation...

Neighbours - V12

An impression of the Earth and Moon as seen in space. Cities are seen glowing on the night side....

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, astronomy, atmosphere, continents, craters, crescent p...

Red Dwarf Flaring

Artwork of a red dwarf star emitting a stellar flare. A red dwarf is a small and relatively cool star on the main sequence, either late K or M spectral type. They range in in mass from a low of 0.075 solar masses to about 50% of the Sun and have a su...

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, common, flare, limb, low mass, red dwarf...

Earth Then and Now

Illustration conceptualizing the formation of the Moon. The left side shows a collision between the early Earth and a smaller rocky protoplanet about the size of modern-day Mars. The right shows the Earth and Moon today....

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, birth, collision, crescent phase, formation, impact, p...

Solar System - V10

Artwork of the Solar System, showing the paths of the eight major planets as they orbit the Sun, as well as Pluto and Eris, which are dwarf planets. The four inner planets are, from inner to outer, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The four outer plane...

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, astronomy, crescent phase, gibbous phase, Jupiter, Mar...

The Grand Departure

Artwork of planet Earth seen from space, where a great fleet of ships has just departed for the stars. Maybe in the future they will arrive at a new planet, carrying their cargoes of humans and other terrestrial lifeforms....

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Blender 3D, colonisation, departure, exodus, future, migration, RedBubb...

Protoplanet Collision

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope reported in 2021 the first detection of carbon monoxide (CO) gas in the terrestrial planet region surrounding a young star. Planet formation models predict that in the last stage of planetary assembly, terrestrial...

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, ALMA, Atacama, carbon monoxide, CO, collision, Galway,...

Earth Past and Present

Artwork showing the Earth now (right) compared to how it might have looked around 2.4 billion years ago, before the great oxygenation event. The continents back there bear no resemblance to their modern counterparts; the atmosphere would have been th...

Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, ancient, comparison, geology, great oxygenation event,...

Big Bang to Present - V3

Stages in the history of the Universe after the Big Bang. At 300,000 years, matter and radiation decouple, and the Universe becomes transparent for the first time. The first galaxies form at around 300 million years after the Big Bang, but the exact ...

Keywords: 3DS_Max, acceleration, Adobe Photoshop, Big Bang, birth, cosmos, expansion, expl...