Cooking up Another Moon, and Creating Water-Colour and Apple Skin Gas Giants
I have turned my “Cooking Up a Moon” tutorial into a Skillshare class.
NEWSFLASH! As at 26 May 2018, this class is now free for an indefinite period of time (Maybe months, perhaps years). Here is the link: https://skl.sh/2ooIWa9
Enjoy!
Part 1 – The Pancake Moon
In Part 1 of the class, you will learn how to:
- make pancakes in your kitchen
- using Affinity Photo, make equi-rectangular projection*texture and bump maps out of the pancake's cratered surface
- using Cheetah 3D, wrap the texture and bump maps around a sphere, and
- render your pancake moon using the included HDRI light.
Part 2 – Painting a Starry Nebula
With Affinity Photo, you will learn how to:
- use shapes to create stars and simple lens flares
- use the standard set of Affinity Photo brushes to paint star fields and a nebula
- composite your moon with your starry nebula, and
- fine tune the lighting of your moon.
There is no modelling in this class. There is a pre-prepared Cheetah 3D file, HDRI light, and starry background. The HDRI light (equirectangular projection) was created in Affinity Photo to replicate a sun.
Equirectangular Projection
Pancake Moon
Blue watercolour stripes by fellow teacher Jessica Sanders, used to create a gas giant, plus a reddish brown watercolour applied to another gas planet.
An Apple skin was given the equirectangular projection treatment and applied to another sphere.
The lens flares were added using Lensflare Studio. All other effects were added using Affinity Photo.
Thank you Martin for letting me use the Cheetah 3D logo.
I have turned my “Cooking Up a Moon” tutorial into a Skillshare class.
NEWSFLASH! As at 26 May 2018, this class is now free for an indefinite period of time (Maybe months, perhaps years). Here is the link: https://skl.sh/2ooIWa9
Enjoy!
Part 1 – The Pancake Moon
In Part 1 of the class, you will learn how to:
- make pancakes in your kitchen
- using Affinity Photo, make equi-rectangular projection*texture and bump maps out of the pancake's cratered surface
- using Cheetah 3D, wrap the texture and bump maps around a sphere, and
- render your pancake moon using the included HDRI light.
Part 2 – Painting a Starry Nebula
With Affinity Photo, you will learn how to:
- use shapes to create stars and simple lens flares
- use the standard set of Affinity Photo brushes to paint star fields and a nebula
- composite your moon with your starry nebula, and
- fine tune the lighting of your moon.
There is no modelling in this class. There is a pre-prepared Cheetah 3D file, HDRI light, and starry background. The HDRI light (equirectangular projection) was created in Affinity Photo to replicate a sun.
Equirectangular Projection
Pancake Moon
Blue watercolour stripes by fellow teacher Jessica Sanders, used to create a gas giant, plus a reddish brown watercolour applied to another gas planet.
An Apple skin was given the equirectangular projection treatment and applied to another sphere.
The lens flares were added using Lensflare Studio. All other effects were added using Affinity Photo.
Thank you Martin for letting me use the Cheetah 3D logo.
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