Still from probe launch animation sequence - The Earth with a cloud layer

Render of the Earth, setting up for the mothership approach scene  

Low resolution render of large scale smoke column test that would be added into the composition of the probes impact, same large scale but better opacity and with debris and backgrounds added. 

Low resolution render of the column collapsing 

Part of a series of images doing a fracture test in 3DS Max using Rayfire. May use this instead of using Houdini for the coffee cup fracture. Will post the full video simulation once it is ready

Test using particle system Krakatoa and 3DS Max, this is a simple sand before full testing for snow storms and blizzard effects.

Trying to get the night settings for render correct and the snow to look as if it has fallen onto the mountains naturally

Testing shaders to get a realistic looking snowy terrain

Render test for the Antarctic scenes - made using Terragen 2 

Another test image, the settings have been changed and tested to improve the render result. The sequence is 500 frames long and each frame take around 90-120 seconds to render.

Just one image from an animated sequence as a test for the probes impact into the snow. This was made using 3DS Max and a fume fx plugin