The Earth

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Just finished the final render of an outer Space scene in Blender based on Andrew Price's tutorial.
Here's the snapshot (10th frame) of the future flyover animation.

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The lights on the shadowed side of the Earth are actually the city lights over Capetown and Johannesburg in South Africa.
Barely visible here but will be much brighter in flyover animation

Odinbc · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:21 am **(#2)**

That looks very good, I'm still a struggling rookie with Blender.

AnMal · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:38 am **(#3)**

k1tesseraena: that's very impressive! :jumpclap

since i had no idea who andrew price is i looked him up and found the tutorial you followed - textures from NASA, who would have thought

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K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

at Odin. Keep trying. It's worth time spent. I've been learning it for a year now and still am a rookie

AnMal, check out his The Nature Academy introduction video.
There is some mind-blowing stuff.
Yes, NASA daytime, nighttime and clouds maps were used. The image resolution are about 21800 x 10500 pixels, Andrew shrank it in half which is enough for his animation (the spinning Earth) and made a bump map. You can't see it in this image but the surface of the Earth actually has elevations and valleys after bump mapping. Three separate spheres were used for surface, clouds and atmosphere. My animation is going to be totally different (close by flyover animation) and this kind of resolution is barely enough.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Looks Good, Can't wait to see the animation.

AnMal · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:28 pm **(#6)**

k1tesseraena: amazing! i don't know what's more impressive - that he can actually make that stuff, that he had the patience to go through all that experimenting to learn it, or that he takes the time to teach it to others.

Mokonafan · **Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:40 pm **(#7)**

I was gonna learn blender but it looks too scary to me. lol XD
Nice image! Well done.