I’ve thought up a way to create custom, cartoon planets; make 2 spheres, scale one of them down slightly, go into sculpt mode on the small sphere, and paint your continents!
Check out the attachment for my results, if you need more images, I can provide them.
-Funddevi
P.S. I’d like to know what you think about this method.
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Um… if somebody could reply…
Looks nice! Altho the mountains seem really big compared to the planet itself =P
But it’s a toony planet so I guess it’s ok. Perhaps texture the land to create some geological diversity?
Sweet! Good idea. Lol. I could just tell you this on chatzy lol…
Thanks for the replies.
@Yoeri: I’m still kinda stuck on how to unwrap it, if you could help…please do!
-Funddevi
here’s a tutorial on UV mapping: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/UV_Map_Basics
Ofcourse you could also just use a procedural texture (cloud or something). Its easier but gives you less control.
definitely a cool concept for a quick planet. It reminds me of the planets in spore. I do, however, think that adding an atmosphere would really help, and perhaps even exaggerating the size of the mountains even more, to make it really cartoony.
Awesome, except the reflected light on the water is to much.
great idea, world building is alot of fun, lucky god.
Yay, an update. My problem with the UV mapping (I know most of the steps) is the fact that I can’t see where I’m painting. I can clarify if this doesn’t make sense.
Anyway, check out the new pic.
-Funddevi
Your land looks a lot better. But why does the water look splotchy? I thought that water looked nice and even from space…
You could turn on x-ray mode from the object draw panel if you want to see what you’re painting. Try this: set the material of the water to a water like material and paint some stuff under the water and see how it turns out.
Also some toony stars, etc. would be a wonderful addition in the background. I’m thinking something subtle. (There are a couple of tutorials for starfields in GIMP running around. If you would like I’ll dig up some links?)
That’d be great if you found some tutorials for starfields and such.
I’m trying out your suggestion now…
^ That’s the tutorial I really like! It yields impressive results to say in the least and it doesn’t take too long at all!
Wow, that was a quick reply…
Edit: That’s a really cool tutorial, now we get to see if I can get it to work…
Oh, me, I’ll camp here all night long sometimes, waiting for a new thread to pop up. 
