If you’ve had the patience to wait for this image to load, then you’ll probably read this.
It is with great sadness that I must announce: a space telescope is currently out of my budgetary reach. Undaunted, I still managed to find a way to make it look like I could afford it.
My apologies for the loading time (~100mb file). GIF was reduced to 50% resolution and only 64 shades of gray just to make it somewhat reasonable. Please excuse the loss of some fidelity (especially highlights). I’ve been slowly working on a different compilation in an actual video format.
Original image…
Enjoy!
Edit:
By popular demand, here is my workflow. With anything AP related, the devil is in the details. So, there is quite a bit more to it, but at a basic level...
1. Take a full disk (or as close as you can come) image of a solar system object
2. Generate a 2D surface map in WinJupos
3. Use that map as a surface texture on a 3D sphere in Photoshop.
4. Use a timeline to animate the camera motion.
5. Render (wait 3 days, ughhhh).
On my long to-do list is to actually create a walk through of the process.
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