Turned my attention to Mars this time with this first set of renders for Syntactic Labyrinths! It’s a beautiful looking planet with so much variation in it’s values. For a mostly monochromatic planet you can find about every value of the warm spectrum. For these renders I’ve been using Chaos Corona 8 and their ACES workflow to maintain as much Highlight information as possible.

This really benefits the realism as it allows me to shine the strong sunlight on the surface without blowing out everything! Even though the sunlight at Mars is only at 44% intensity compared to Earth, the sun is just so incredibly bright you really need to preserve those highlights!