In The Light of Other Suns

Poster illustration created for the 8th Interstellar Symposium to be held on the 10th to 13th of July, 2023 at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The Interstellar Symposium Plenary Lectures focus on applied aspects of interstellar travel (human and robotic). Presentations are selected to represent a broad array of problems salient to different interstellar missions with topics ranging from propulsion systems to the human factors needing to be considered for interstellar travel (e.g. on generation ships) and the associated ethics.

The poster depicts a solar sail passing an exo-planet with a von Neumann probe in the process of constructing its second stage "base" on an asteroid.  

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The main elements were created in Cinema4D and Blender before being rendered with Octane Render. The illustration was then put together with some postwork done in Photoshop (final poster design done in InDesign).