Is there a free to use commercially 3D Earth?

[yabyum]

Or possibly something pretty cheap? Gonna do a zoom out over the globe effect and am in need of Earth model, hopefully free to use commercially (low budget). Thinking I will probably import into AE with Video Copilot Element.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks as always.

 

[Mike Lorushe]

Yeah use the video copilot tutorial. I used it for project not too long ago...it's actually quite simple with real good results...

 

[ZazaCast]

^^ yes, everything you need should be in the project files.
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earth_zoom/

 

[El Director]

You can't use the images from the earth zoom tutorial because they are owned by Google. NASA has a version of Google Earth that you can use the images from. If you're just wanting the globe, Andrew released an earth model a few months back for use in Element 3D.

 

[yabyum]

You can't use the images from the earth zoom tutorial because they are owned by Google. NASA has a version of Google Earth that you can use the images from. If you're just wanting the globe, Andrew released an earth model a few months back for use in Element 3D.

Awesome. Gonna look this up, thanks a bunch, also @Zaza and Mike.

 

[story2rewrite]

Totally. I've used NASA stuff before. They even have some free 3d files . And the space images are large. Great for animating.

 

[KurtF]

Those free NASA files cost billions of dollars. And we paid for them! So go get them and use 'em, you helped pay for them. LOL!