In this class, you will learn about proceduralism by creating a Gas Planet in Blender.

Setting up the blender scene

In this video, we will start shading our planet by creating:
- The basic geometry of the planet
- Building our lighting setup
- Setting up the camera
- Tweaking some render settings.
and lastly
- Activating some add-ons, we’ll need.
Creating the planet shader — part 1

In this video, you will start shading you planet by creating the general look of a gas planet's surface. (Umm… Even though gas planets don’t have a surface xD)
Creating the planet shader — part 2

In this video, you will finalize the look of your planet, by adding vector distortion.

This is the most complicated video in this course because for some people it might be tough to wrap their minds around what’s happening in the logic of the nodes.

But if you give it some time, everything will sink in.
Understanding distortion in Blender

This is a follow-up to the previous video.

In this one, I will try to explain the logic we built our node tree around in the previous video.

Basically, how to do operations between the texture and the texture coordinate node.
Creating the rings

In this video, you’ll create the rings around your planet. This will be fun!
Rendering

In this video, you’ll finalize your scene and prepare it for rendering by
- Locking the shot and lighting for the planet.
- Adding some simple camera animation.
- And lastly, setting up our render settings.
By the end of this video, you’ll have a scene that is ready to hit render.
Compositing

Our journey is coming to an end :(

In this final video, you will use the Blender Compositor to add a background to your planet and do some global adjustments to finish everything.

All project files are included -- DOWNLOAD FROM HERE

So now, if that’s something you’re into, I can’t wait to see you in class.

Róbert Marcin

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