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This came out nothing like my orginal idea. I started with an island on the left then was going to add a planet in the background. So I rendered that that took 14 hours, and realized (I was asleep, let it go overnight) that I didn't have the skills to place a planet behind clouds in front of sky, so I re-rendered with no clouds and another 12 hours. Then read =Swaroop 's tutorial on how to do these really cool spike things, and I decided to try it. Well that didn't come out the same way his did so I ended up using world machine to generate the terrain, another 2 hours probably to get everything right. Rendered that image full size which took 3 hours. Then couldn't get the haze how I wanted, so redid the terrain (I now love world machines circuit building method) and came out with more spikes and stuff. Finally after 37 different test renders at 400*250 and seeing how photoshop handled them, I finally settled on this view pointing towards a world that looks like paradise. Hence the title.

Total time taken: I don't wanna think about it.

Description
This came out nothing like my orginal idea. I started with an island on the left then was going to add a planet in the background. So I rendered that that took 14 hours, and realized (I was asleep, let it go overnight) that I didn't have the skills to place a planet behind clouds in front of sky, so I re-rendered with no clouds and another 12 hours. Then read =Swaroop 's tutorial on how to do these really cool spike things, and I decided to try it. Well that didn't come out the same way his did so I ended up using world machine to generate the terrain, another 2 hours probably to get everything right. Rendered that image full size which took 3 hours. Then couldn't get the haze how I wanted, so redid the terrain (I now love world machines circuit building method) and came out with more spikes and stuff. Finally after 37 different test renders at 400*250 and seeing how photoshop handled them, I finally settled on this view pointing towards a world that looks like paradise. Hence the title.

Total time taken: I don't wanna think about it.