This project was a collabroation between Phil Gomm and myself. He approached me and asked if I could create some alien CG planets for promp #11 of the Kick-About series featured on his blog, Red's Kingdom. The Kick-About 11 prompt was "TRAPPIST-1e, one of the most potentially habitable exoplanets discovered so far".
The textures, geometry displacement, and background nebulas are all driven by photographs that Phil had taken and handed over to me. Go check it out here - https://reds-kingdom.blog/2020/09/30/wanderer-2020/ - where you can also see some early tests and behind-the-scenes screenshots.