SpaceShip To Earth
8Just a fun render. Took about 6 hours total to make.
However it doesn't look very real. Any help/suggestions?
What I did was use CC Sphere on a Map of Earth and a Map of Clouds separately and and kept the radius of the clouds sphere a touch more than the the Earth's to give a kind of paralax. I created the blue light-ish atmosphere and put a white solid to indicate the specular of the sun.
And then I discovered that there was a tutorial based upon this on Video Copilot XD
So I used his maps because they looked better (project file).
Added the moon, the space bg, color correction, etc.
I don't have a GFX card so I can't use Element 3D, so I used a simple 2D Sprite for the spaceship, made it a 3D object, sent it to 50000 in Z space within 2 seconds, added flares and used expressions to make them stay in place and voila!
Also I used VC Shockwave + Fractal Noise to make the portal FX.
Suggestions?