vaderios said:The deathstar should look like moon. so only light and some minor details should be visible.
plus the perspective we supposed to see the bottom of it and the shield dish should always point it.
I like your approach of total black it adds a dangerous silence but it lacks of dramatical atmosphere.
Same with the planet.
I ll try to do some mockups sometime later :)
-Angel
If the sky was pitch black the Death Star would reflect back a lot of light so it would glow (not quite as much as the moon but a lot more than we ever saw in the theatrical version). It's only in evening and morning that you would get the diffusion thus seen.
