Modelling the Earth
The Diatom storyboard that I've decided to work on includes a model of the Earth. I found some tutorials on YouTube as well as source images that I used for texturing.
‘How to Make Planets in Maya’ by Alex Conolan was very helpful.
I usually watch YouTube on 1.5x speed to save time, however, when it comes to learning from tutorials it was more helpful to do the opposite and play at 0.5x speed!
I sourced some Earth textures from NASA and used the lowest resolution files, however half way through my model creation process I decided to use the textures that were featured in the tutorial because they looked brighter and it was less confusing to use the same ones he was using in the demo.
I’ll have to go back into the images in Photoshop and add the aqua Diatoms effects because the current texture doesn’t show them.
Textures- NASA and Solar System Scope