Planet Earth Animation

[SebastianG]

Hello Everyone,

I rendered Planet Earth in KeyShot 7.3 Pro.
The most difficult task was rendering the atmosphere. I used an extra sphere combined with gradient textures to create the glowing effect.
This is not perfect, maybe you guys have a better way to do it in Keyshot?

Thanks!

Animation:
https://vimeo.com/281243280

Source of Textures:

Day and night textures, Terrestrial elevation data, Land/water mask, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice mask, Milky Way panorama
http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural3/pages/textures.html
http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural3/pages/extra.html#anchor
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0932a/

[Will Gibbons]

Not bad! Definitely a challenge (which is why I haven't tried it myself yet). Nice experiment.

[SebastianG]

Thanks! I had some spare time and decided to try something new in KeyShot
Five years ago I followed a Blender tutorial from "Blender Guru" on how to render a realistic earth.
But I couldn't find the original tutorial so I did everything from memory in KeyShot.

Blender Guru created a new tutorial using Blender Cycles:
https://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/earth-cycles?rq=earth

Can I please get new units in KeyShot:

• km
• AU (Astronomical Unit)
• pc (Parsec)