Making a convincing planet (earth etc.)

[Oakes]

Hey all you gurus

I was wondering how to make a planet that looks like the earth.. i know how to make a kind of "evil" looking planet.. but it would be super sweet to be able to make The Earth

I hope you guys can help me..
(the picture i've added is the one i know how to make..)

Thanks..
/Christian

 

[Welles]

Hi Oakes,

Greg Martin, a superb digital artist, has a couple of tutorials up on making realistic star fields and planets. While his tutorial doesn't address creating an earth type planet it will give you some good tips...

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html

 

[Oakes]

Thanks for the tip mate.. im going to try it.. once again the Guru Forum does it's magic

/Christan

 

[ooptea]

imma give this tut a go and c how it turns out. thanks for the link

 

[ronmatt]

an earthtype planet sans stars

 

[Red Rooster]

ronmatt your planet needs to be more spherical and it needs to have a atmosphere... to learn how to do that go to the link welles posted

 

[ronmatt]

By Zeus, you're right. I didn't spend a whole heck of amount of time on it. I was at work, running a job through Pitstop and surfing. Now I feel obligated to show my stuff. Keep an eye out

 

[ronmatt]

Well, it's later in the day, and I've got some more images on this planet thing. See what you think.


Tried, too big, I'll try again later

 

[ronmatt]

Here I go again. ( don't like the size rule. My stuff is always too big. When I reduce the file size the old artifacts creep in) anyway here they are.
Suppose I could use imagebank.