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. [ Ссылка ]
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.
