My other entry inspired this one, sort of indirectly. The black hole object, which is absolutely lovely, got the phrase 'event horizon' stuck in my head, and I imagined a highly anticipated arrival that would cause a major change. Now, granted, that's not what an event horizon (in reference to black holes) means, but it got the juices flowing. I tried to convey what I was thinking with the current title, but it doesn't seem to have the same ring.
There's quite a tribulation behind this image. The result you see here is, unfortunately, not quite the result I was hoping for. The first time around, at 13 hours in to a 16(approximate) hour render, Windows decided it was the perfect time to restart, and install an upgrade. The SECOND time around, eleven hours in to the render, my UPS gave out (even though it was still plugged in to the wall!) and lost the cache. Finally, I gave up and rendered this twice, once completely transparent and with a simple reflection, and once with no reflection but high white specular, and cobbled them together in Photoshop to try to reproduce the refract effect cheaply.
Somehow, I'm afraid, the effect was lost in translation.
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