A few weeks ago, in preparation for a festival, one of my students posted an image on social media with the title roughly translated as "the moon has come down to the earth". The image depicted a large balloon of a moon still attached to the ground. And I thought, "hey, I can do that!", and then took a photo of an open area the next time I went outside. It would be a good opportunity, I thought, to learn the compositor outside blindly following a tutorial. After spending a couple of hours trying to remember what I had seen in tutorials on YouTube, and making what felt like random tweaking, not really knowing what I was doing half of the time, (and not to mention being way past midnight!), I considered it "good enough". Besides, it was only meant as a joke with my student and not something I would show lots of people. After becoming a dad almost two years ago now (time flies...), I almost completely stopped doing anything 3D. Only watching some random short tutorials online and occasionally when time permitted, actually following along with one that seemed "simple enough". As this is the only thing I have completed in a long time outside following along some tutorial, I have decided to post it here, in a desperate attempt to regain some lost momentum. So, here it is, with all its flaws. Anyways, sorry for rambling. It's way past midnight again, which seems to be the only time I can get more than 2 minutes without interruption, and I seriously need to get some sleep...
EDIT: By the way, the moon textures are from NASA and can be found here:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720
thebergh, there was a tutorial here on CG Cookie a few years back, about a procedural sand material: I donโt know how well it wouldโve worked in this case but maybe worth trying.
anarchymedes I actually used proportional editing when testing. That was the easy part. Then I ran into the problem of getting the proper sand texture to flow with the ridge. I watched a tutorial by CG Matter where he used some camera projection to get the texture onto a plane that he distorted. But all I got was some unusable weird stretching. No idea what I did wrong.
thebergh, Iโd just sculpt the ridge manually: sometimes, the brute force works. ๐๐๐
anarchymedes I actually thought about at least creating the ridge of a small crater around the moon. I watched a short tutorial on how to camera project the texture onto a subdivided plane so I could deform it, but for the life of me, I couldn't get it to work. I then gave up since it wasn't supposed to be a big project and I needed to get some sleep. Maybe I'll try again later.
I bet NASA are going to love this: and so are flat-earthers.๐๐
Still, even though the moonโs mass is obviously not nearly as great as the lying establishment kept telling the people (๐), shouldnโt it have thrown around more sand when it landed? Like, dig a small crater with a ridge?
duerer Thanks a lot for your kind words!
thebergh I feared that this would happen one day. Hopefully, nobody has been injured ๐! Original idea and beautiful work ๐! I'm looking forward to your next project !