Im seeing if someone has any suggestions for this. I have an alien that I made and Im almost done animating. I have him standing on a floating metal land mass in the middle of outer space somewhere. The stars are around him and there are other things like floating meteors and a planet.

My question is what kind of lighting set up would I need to get a look similar to say if he was on the earths moon like in all those 1960s videos of moon landings. I cant seem to make it look outer space like without it being to bright or dark.

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