Monday, 29 April 2013

32.Swings and Orbits

Context. While the other scene with the lava lamp and globe is rather a pedestal for the two objects, I want the space scene to really set the tone and give it a wow factor. So with my HD sun I crated a new scene and made a little solar system using spheres and setting them on motion paths around the sun. I then gave them planetary lighting that would follow them around ensuing that one side facing the sun was always lit. 


above is an image of the sun heating up as i caught it off guard, reminded me more of Saturn or a giant maltreaser in space.

above is a render of the sun and the planet, im really happy with thins and things its super effective especially when the planet comes in front.



I then wanted to make a galaxy background myself, so i look up a few tutorials and found this one to be the best 

Here is a snippet of the texture, i want to make a really long one so there are less seams in the scene. its maybe something to look into later about trying to make it seamless. 


So adding a massive sphere as a back ground and giving it the galaxy texture really gave the scene a galactic feeling. 


I tried pushing the sun out to try get the best scale of the planets to the sun, without spoiling the nice shadows that cross its surface. 


Above is the initial video of just the planets and sun



And here they are with the galaxy background, but i think the sun is still animating too fast so I slowed it down and ended up with the video below, which i am very happy with. 


Now just to get the metaphor dynamics in!

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