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Update: It seems some people are angry at me for not going at a reasonable pace. Please be aware, this video is aimed at intermediate level users, if you are a beginner I don’t think this video is for you.
I’m an aspiring 3D artist who wants to share some of what I’ve learnt back to the community!
This is my first tutorial, here I’m covering how to make earth from space using Maya 2015.
NASA’s Blue Marble textures: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=1484
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45 responses to “Earth Tutorial for Maya: Intermediate Level”
Dude it's not flat?
In the 2018 release of YouTube they included a pause button. I think you can rewind and slow down playback but I haven't figured that out. Computers are hard. Are there any more tutorials on the internet? Can you do a tutorial on how to life?
great tutorial, but its too fast and some things are not clear. how did you get the earth_layered_matte. in 26.57 ,you never showed us how you did it
Could you go a little faster? I can still see some of the steps you are doing. Maybe make it a quadrupedal shot of espresso before recording the next one.
Thankyou mate, great tut, sure its fast but there is a thing called pausing so it was easy enough to follow along
Remember kids, Maya is a multi-thousand-dollar piece of software. Unless you're on a VPN, your ISP can see if you download it illegally, and you can get into a lot of trouble. Piracy is bad, mmkay?
Even you did fast i just loved it…you are inspirational man.. i would love to meet you soon as soon as i become a 3D artist.. keep up the work man..
so with all these textures, say if im usuing arnold or mental ray ill use those materials instead of labert?
and this supposed to be a tutorial !?
Maya is too damn confusing compared to 3Ds Max…
I wasted an hour finding out what a Poly Sphere was . . .
excellent tutorial!
Good job ! But you do not know how to do tutorial, very fast without any explanation.
Can you (or someone) explain why there's a need for an Earth proxy and not just use two spheres (1 for earth texture and 1 for the clouds) ?
Got a great result, cant seem to get the cloud shadow to work though.
can i ask what is the earth proxy for ?
how long did this take to render?
Very nice tutorial, thanks. The same for Maya 2017 with Arnold would be nice.
Dont go fast, go clear and factfull.
You are not the best at explaining things…. So you make a tutorial?
I don't use hotkeys (It takes awhile from the methodical) And I still understand it.
Can you supply the texture files you used for this? When I go on the Nasa site and try and use the ones there they are blurry and chopped up. Did you patch them together in photoshop?
Hey LumanoidAU Great stuffs almost made it all the way , i just have a small problem.
in my clouds after the node connecting part i did it and went well but the only thing is that i dont have any Cloud Shadows, any thoughts ? did i missed to tick something ? thanks !
Hey, I just happened to find this video again and I thought about leaving a comment. 🙂
Sometime while learning Maya 2 years ago, I wanted to create planet Earth and this tutorial helped me so much.
These days I had to use 3ds Max to make a planet and I just liked to play this video in the background while doing it, the classic music and you trying to achieve the same result kept me in good humor all the time haha!!
So thank you very much for this 😀
p.s. I prefer Maya!
Thank you so much for your tutorial! Very helpful 🙂
Thanks a million. Helped me tons : ) Perfect pace for intermediate users. Keep em coming man! Worked along with you and it is a great looking start. I'm going to do bump and it will good enough for me ; )
i don't have the mia_material_x, is there an other one i can use with the same properties?
Can you remake that tuto with 2016 maya? pls
This was great man! Appreciate you sharing your techniques. There were many nodes that you used that I hadn't thought of before. Gives me tons of ideas – keep up the good work. Cheers!
best tutorial soundtrack ever 😀
sorry, but the sound is awful. often it does not understand what you say because you do whispering and do not explain the steps you do
pretty good, just tried it in '17, but Arnold doesn't support a lot of the methods you used, such as different shaders, ramps, etc
Anyone complaining about the speed of this tutorial needs to use the pause/play button more! You're not going to create the same result in the 40 minutes that the tutorial is delivered in. You're going to have to pause and rewind and follow along at your own pace. If you do, you'll produce the same results he's teaching.
The internet is always angry, LumanoidAU. Don't pay attention to it. This is a wonderful tutorial that produces exceptional results! Thank you!
I am an advanced user and I found that your techniques were grand. Many people connect a MR shader to a Maya surface shader before plugging it into a layered shader, but you did it by connecting the diffuse color directly to the layer input. Nice! However, please do not think that speed is synonymous with intermediate or even advanced. There are far more advanced tutorials that manage to move at a consistent and moderate pace. Still, any problems with this tutorial can be attributed to the fact that you said it was your first one. This was made two years ago and if you are still making tutorials I am sure you have improved. Cheers!
Awesome tutorial, definitely one of the best on the internet for making a realistic Earth.
Woa
Terrible. too fast. blurry. can;'t udnerstand him. stopped watching at
1:37. This is NOT a tutorial. This is a bloke masturbating to himself. I
bet he isslightly Aspergic as well
Thanks !
I'm gonna do the intro of universals studios 😀
It says intermediate level, for all of you complaining that the tutorial is hard to follow. Get your skills up then come back.
Dude! Love the tutorial great work! the final result is beautiful and I personally love the speed at which you work keeps this from being a 2 hour tutorial. I also love your tid bits of humor. This tutorial is perfect too I needed this for a project I am working on. I'm excited to subscribe and check out more of your stuff good sir keep it up!
When your camera is too dark even with aperture open, you need to either raise ISO or shutter speed. Increasing the censor size is not really an appropriate thing — yeah it does work larger censors are more light sensitive. But usually you don't go over a 35mm or very occasionally a 70mm censor.
But that's optics, your maya knowledge is incredible and I learned a lot, I just come from Modo and shading in Modo is so much easier — once you understand their approach I guess. So I am relearning a lot of trivial stuff and your video did the trick!
Hey bro, I just want to Thank you for making an Intermediate Level tutorial, there are way too many beginner tuts out there with nothing for us more advance users to learn from, except for the master classes, and they can be overwhelming sometimes
So Thanks man!
there are no tutorials for maya + Vray????
Amazing tut.Thank you.
Dude thank you so much! I had to go through your video twice (thats like 9 hrs+ for me lol) to get this right, but in the end its the only tutorial that helped me.