I remember Andrew Price saying that everyone has to do a grungy looking scene at some point in their artistic lifetime, so I thought I'd tackle it too. His tutorials on creating an underground subway scene taught me more techniques on creating atmosphere and applying array and mirror modifiers, but also parenting them to a curve, allowing me to make the tunnel any shape I want.
Such simple techniques when used correctly give the most amazing results.
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| Our Beautiful Planet |
This week, with more tips from Andrew Price and NASA, I was able to create the Earth. To my surprise, this image was relatively easy to make. There were some cool new tips I learnt, like how to use the material nodes to create awesome effects, like how the city lights show up when the Earth is in shadow.
I'd love to create an animation of this at a later stage, or even use these techniques to create my own planet, maybe with asteroids surrounding it.
