WW457 how Del created his entry

the source:

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how Del worked:
I started with the dome and bird, added the tower, highly manipulated the overlay of the wall on the dome/moon to get texture then added the corn in the foreground. Also highly manipulated.
After this I put windows in the tower and put the light behind to shine through, I overlaid the starfield onto the blue sky then color matched and darkened everything except the moon which actually had to be lightened along
the left side.

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the result:

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