Nasa Curiosity Rover on Mars Landscape
Made in Blender 2.9, Eevee
https://youtu.be/6wyI5J-6dDc
Rover Model provided by NASA. Curiosity Rover launched by the NASA MSL team has been one of the longest-running rovers on Mars, has been operational since 2012 and has collected tons of data for research, and helps in advancing science in a number of ways.
It took a long while to conceptualize and actually model the environment here. I took inspiration from Andrew Price's video about Mars, and pictures of well Mars. I added a simple landscape then adding mountains, hills but still didn't feel right. I added textures and rocks of different sizes and textures alone all of it and it felt better. I then added procedural wind and background and it looked perfect. With some depth of field added I gave it a render. I later did the post-processing, added mist, and color grading, and that's the final result
After making the environment I had to animate it so I got the curiosity rover model from NASA and animated it with the landscape. Animated the camera. Did a lot of tweaks to the landscape, like making it darker and more reddish plus flattening the hills a bit, making it smoother, and making the rocks less shiny. The end result was great, and I ended up liking it a lot more. It took a day to make the whole animation and tweaks and it was well worth it. I took some of my newly learned knowledge about topology and even made the landscape's geometry better and it helped in render times. The animation was fully rendered in Eevee.
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