Earth in HD - Maya 2011

Maya 2011 - Earth view along the terminator. Please view in HD.

Music: The Noisettes - Pink Sweater. Album: itsn't
Earth images for mapping: NASA's Visible Earth, Blue Marble. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Shading based on 3D Buzz's tutorial on the Maya Fundamentals CDs. However, I have added tweaks and other elements that I felt were missing.

Rendered with Mentalray, full production settings with fine trace. 1200 frames (40 seconds of vid. at 30 fps). Approximate render time; 120 hrs. on Intel Corei7 930, 2.80 Ghz. 12 Gigs RAM. Single GeForce GTX460 1024 MB DDR5 memory.

This is part of another project but I wanted to render out a full rotation. Note that the earth is on it's 23.45 degree tilt. Something I noticed that was missing from many other similar animation.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Maya 2011
• Earth
• animation
• animated
• 3D
• NASA
• space
• satellite
• equator
• terminator
• HD
• 3D Buzz
• twilight
• Gaia
• Terra
• universe
• blue marble
• planet
• solar
• system

[AstroAnimation]

cool video but earth doesn't rotate at that angle :P and is moving a little fast :)

[dwmcculloughDotCom]

@AstroAnimation Actually it does rotate at this angle (see description). This would be Summer. Yes it's fast. If I did actual time it would not be noticeable since it would take 24 hours for a full rotation.

[Meryose]

Can i use it for a beginning credits ?

[dwmcculloughDotCom]

@Meryose Credits for what?

[elhatmiyh]

awesome

u maked also lights of citys in night

very very good!!

[Shadow0faHedgehog]

I've being to that place. I saw a cat while I was there.

[gilbertroyalva]

@AstroAnimation no it may take 30 minutes to 3 hours to make a planet but rendering can take all day.

[gilbertroyalva]

How did you make an atmosphere?

[HollywoodNorthProdtm]

@AstroAnimation THANKS

[AstroAnimation]

check my earth video out too?

[AstroAnimation]

@dwmcculloughDotCom

okay bro no probs, of course it would take a whole day i mean even so :) nice vid, I'm sure NASA would be proud