Read Issue 63 of Digital Art Live

Welcome to the ‘Orbit’ issue of your free magazine. This month we focus on art featuring a view from an orbit around the Earth or some other Solar System body, usually with a large structure in that same orbit.

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CHRISTOPHER W. BAILEY

Christopher is an Australian animator, who has recently used Blender to make a superbly dynamic short film.

BLENDER | FILMMAKING

“So I began with my rough mock-up scene of the asteroids, pretty simple, it’s like a sphere that was emitting all the particles. I just turned on Cycles and got a couple of layers of asteroids. Pretty simple, low poly and a lot of this stuff was just done with simple shaders.”

ALAN E. BAKER

Alan crosses the divide between visualising real space missions and screen sci-fi, bringing his expert Blender skills to both.

BLENDER | GIMP

“… the head of ESOCs needed quick illustrations of upcoming missions … This was my first paid commission, and involved systems for tracking asteroids … A year or so later, they needed images and animations for space weather monitoring spacecraft…”

MAXIME des TOUCHES

Maxime is an accomplished creator of epic 3D science-fiction ‘orbitscapes’, using the 3DS Max software.

3DS MAX | CINEMA 4D

“You can see in my artwork in general, lots of particles and light effects, I really love to improve the light in sci-fi compositions. In my opinion, there are no limits because we are in space — so anything could happen, even strange light effects.”

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