Blender 30/30 Day 02: Ringworld

Today’s sketch is entirely derivative. I’ve just finished reading Larry Niven’s Ringworld, and though a lot of the book has not dated well at all, the sci-fi imagination of the author captivated me deeply. As a sort of homage/learning experience, today I tried my hand at creating a ringworld.

Experiments in noise-based textures (the colourful ground) and distance-based shading (the blue fade off effect)

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