Hello, I found an old render of the earth from a while ago and decided to try it again. The newer one is much, much better, but I would like some critiques so that I can confidently put this in my portfolio. I also feel that it’s not very creative. What should I do to make it more “artsy”?
That’s quite nice. But I would agree there are a lot of renders of earth out there, although this is one of the nicest ones I’ve seen.
If you want a more “artsy” feel I would suggest making it a shot of earth seen from the moon. Like the cameras on the moon taking a picture of earth. If you really wanted to go all out you could model the lunar module in the foreground as well but that’s kinda a whole new project.
Thats a nice idea. Since we’re getting into the scifi realm here, you could always model spacestations or satellites orbiting around the earth, a couple of spaceships here and there…Again, a whole new project.
Thanks for the great ideas!
I don’t think I have much time for this project, but I did add in some space debris to tie in the foreground and background. I also animated the earth, clouds, sun, and debris so that there is a lot of subtle movement while the sun moves over the earth. I’ll render out the animation and hopefully it will turn out well!
This is a frame that is a little before the one posted above, so it doesn’t have as much sun.
maybe add the moon somewhere in there (a texture for this can be found at: http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth.html) and if you don’t think its original enough you could play around with the camera angles and lighting.
hope this helped.
Instead of rocks around the planet, make them bolts and the occasional larger fragment of metal
Also, the glare on the background stars looks a little wrong.
It’s a very nice earth, but you are right not so much original… since there are a number of tutorials out on this subject. I’d ramp your star field up… or add some extreme weather onto the planet. that is one thing you don’t see as much. or grunge it up… like a firefly earth, or Wall-E style earth.
IMHO the lighting and color of the most recent render is indeed better. I’d bring back some atmosphere although not as bright as the previous render, and switch the glare to fog glow.