A view of Earth from Space

The objective of this animation is to see how Earth appears from space and how the sun light has an effect on various parts of the planet. Four 8K resolution textures of planet Earth have been used in this scene. Each texture is about 150 MB in size. In order to achieve the view at night, I have added a full scale night texture map that contains lights of cities. Each bright spot seen at night represents each city or place where electricity is used. The brightness of each of the areas is proportional to the number of people residing there. Only a single rotation of Earth is given due to rendering constraints (hardware limitations). Total Poly count is 1600 polys.

# Work hours (including. render time): 102 hours