This fulfils the brief perfectly - a high tech landing pad in a canyon isn’t something that any of us have actually seen, but I think you have a done a great job of creating such a complex concept.
The design of the landing area, and the overall composition is great - and I agree with David that the energy FX are fantastic.
Vue is a great tool to create the ‘base’ of a matte painting, but it ALWAYS needs a lot of paint work and photo details to bring it up to a decent level of realism. This therefore looks unfinished - a solid base on which I would expect a lot of work to still occur.
Here’s a suggestion of where you could push the image, should you wish to:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
-Replace a lot of the procedural-looking Vue rocks with photo elements
-Replace the low-res sky
-Use haze and highlights to accentuate the interesting forms in your design, and create a greater sense of scale and depth
-Add some lighting from the energy beams on the canyon wall
