Create Cinematic Procedural Planets (With Atmosphere) in Blender | Tutorial

Howdy y'all! I know this video is a bit different from my usual content but I think these tips for creating cinematic planet renders are really great to have in your tool belt.

In this video I'll go over how you can setup a simple cinematic space scene, how to create an awesome fully procedural planet with volumetric clouds, and finally a few compositing tips to really help elevate your renders!

Hope you enjoy it and happy Blending : )

[Mash-NL]

For anyone wondering. in blender 3.4 and up. Mix rgb is now under color > mix color

[HandsomeDragon]

So, if you're working with Blender 4.1, even if you match the results via the values, they will be different. But if do this tut on an older blender version, then reopen it in blender 4.1, Blender 4.1 will recalculate the values so it will match the results. What I found is that the gain, and particularly the Roughness value on the noise Texture need to be set to a specific value, or, just don't max out the roughness.

My Noise Texture Settings are...

Node - Noise Texture:

Rigid Multifractal
Scale -- b/w 2 and 5
Detail -- 14
Roughness -- 0.871 (This is important, increasing the Roughness will give the result, but too much will blow out the whites & blacks. Blender 4.1 converted this to value 0.871 for a reason)
Lacunarity -- N/A
Offset -- N/A
Gain -- 109 (but you can mess with this)
Distortion -- N/A

Hope this helps you.

[dace.digital]

For anyone missing Control + T shortcut, you have to enable Node Wrangler in Addons

[danmaster]

I loved it. But the best of all has been the fluidity of the tutorial. We NEED more tutorials like this.

[lekonua]

I've been looking for a good planet tutorial for forever, and I'm so glad to finally find one that's *actually* procedural and doesn't start with "first you steal picture of a planet surface from Google images." This is absolutely fantastic.

[meowyih]

For people who want create the atmosphere using the same parameter as the video, make sure to increase the UV sphere scale to 150 times. All the volume parameters need such precondition to work properly.

[ager]

Most underrated blender teacher, this guy deserves more recognition

[peterwall]

One of the best Tutorials that i've seen, the way you explain it is very professional !!

[brycesmith]

I decided to try Blender for the first time last night, and I have to say, I'm hooked now. Your black hole tutorial is what got me interested (since I'm an aerospace engineer) and now I just can't stop

[kubrickguy]

Total beginner. My first tutorial, I got stuck on how to resize 150? But managed to figure it out. Amazing, if I can follow this anyone can... bloody well done that man!

[wayrentmusic]

This is the most powerful tutorial on how to create procedural planets in blender☺

[madofd]

Wow, the render is insane, it’s just amazing, great job 👏

[stengrus]

Wow, i'm impressed with how good this looks, you are super underrated I truly hope your channel grows! And thx!

[tasora]

ah man this was really clear and concise! made my very first planet from this vid!

[sassuskrassus]

comming from a Documentation about Space and stuff
I always thought that these animations of a camera floating above planets were so cool
I thought the were people who would sit days around to create this but apparently it only takes a few minutes

i mean rendering and stuff as well but its incredible how fast you can create a planet with 3d Softwares
👀

[JungleMU]

Probably the best planet tutorial out there. Super easy and extremely versatile and powerful! Subbed!

[ryanansen]

Bro, I've watched like a thousand atmospheric cloud tutorials, and this one is by far the easiest approach I've seen and the results are absolutley amazing on top of that. I was about to make a video on how to make an easy shader because I was so sick of overly convoluted approaches or results that were simply sub-par, but your method blows mine out of the water.

Thank you so much for this video! Instant subscribe from me!

[awsmgmer]

This is actually such a good tutorial. I modified it a bit to make my sci-fi worldbuilding project's main planet, and it looks great. Thanks man!

[golemtabak]

Amazing, now i have such a own beautiful planet – thank you!

[voyagerfilms]

this is by far the best planet tutorial I've come across. Way better than Blender Guru (he goes too fast). This is clear, concise, and easy to understand!