I’ve been making Earth visuals like in the following examples. Below, you’ll find some resources for how to make them yourself!
Video example:
Another video example:
Some helpful tutorials:
- This will show you how to prepare geographic files in QGIS and then import them into Blender
2. I really like this trick of taking a flat plane and turning it into a sphere in Blender. Note that I’ve only been able to get it to work in Blender 3.x. It hasn’t been working in Blender 4.x.
3. I learned Blender3D years ago off a set of tutorials on YouTube. Those tutorials are out of date now, since the Blender3D software has evolved since then. However, the number of tutorials has exploded since! So just go on YouTube and find a tutorial that will give you the very basics of what each mouse click will do, and just how to move through the screens. The initial tutorials I learned from were a series of 6, and each was just about 1 minute long.
4. To get to know Blender a little better, I then used another tutorial to make a groundhog. This was pretty complicated, but the tutorial went super step-by-step, so I didn’t get lost. However, that tutorial is also now out of date, due to how the software has evolved. So I would look for a more recent tutorial that will show you, step-by-step, how to do something meaty. But take this note of caution: at the same time I was making the groundhog, I tried to also follow another tutorial for making a bunch of balloons. You may be thinking, the balloons would obviously be easy compared to making a mammal. A bunch of spheres are much easier to create than a mammal with eyes and joints and fingers. Well, think again! The groundhog tutorial went so step-by-step and carefully, I didn’t get lost at all. While the balloon skipped steps and I was confused and stuck 3 minutes in.
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