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This is a screenshot of my first 3D models I made as part of my university course. This was made using Maya, and involved creating, transforming, and translating poly spheres to create the planets and their moons.

After they were all in place, the objects were all textured using the hypershade tool. The textures were not created by myself, but were free-use ones available to 3D designers. Once textured, I then used the animation tools to create a looping sequence of transformations that would simulate a day in the solar system. This involved changing the translations of all the planets on the first and last frames of the animation and allowing them to revolve around to their new locations to simulate the planets revolutions around the sun.

To create the stars and background I deformed a poly-plane to curve around the viewport, and textured it with a free-use png of the stars.

Description
This is a screenshot of my first 3D models I made as part of my university course. This was made using Maya, and involved creating, transforming, and translating poly spheres to create the planets and their moons.

After they were all in place, the objects were all textured using the hypershade tool. The textures were not created by myself, but were free-use ones available to 3D designers. Once textured, I then used the animation tools to create a looping sequence of transformations that would simulate a day in the solar system. This involved changing the translations of all the planets on the first and last frames of the animation and allowing them to revolve around to their new locations to simulate the planets revolutions around the sun.

To create the stars and background I deformed a poly-plane to curve around the viewport, and textured it with a free-use png of the stars.