Fantastic Voyage: Planet Concept

[Concept 01]

 This is the finished 3D concept art of the fictional planet ready to be used for final animation.

[Color Texture]

 The texture was painted in photoshop. The continents are placed in separate layers which can be helpful for mask texture generation.

 

[Specular Map]

This texture determines the specularity of the surface.

The dark grey area indicates ocean which should be more reflective than the lands.

 [Ocean Mask]

This one is similar to the specular map, however, this image only has binary information which is useful for masking bump maps for the ocean and the land.

[Model Breakdown]

The 3D model consists of 3 objects. One for the actual planet, and others for clouds and the atmosphere. The cloud texture was generated procedurally using multiple noise textures.

[Concept 02]

In the final animation, the composition is going to be similar to the image above.