Solar System Model (Orrery)

Front View

Front View

Iso View

Iso View

3D Model

Top View

Top View

Wire frame

Wire frame

Solar System Model (Orrery)

This is a scale model of our solar system that was made and animated in Blender and textured in Substance Painter.

To view the animation use the Sketchfab 3D viewer. In the bottom left you can change from static pose to animation one and two.

The Solar System model A.K.A. an Orrery is a device that shows the orbit of each planet around the sun and their relative distance from each other. Viewing the model, you can see that there is a static pose and two animations.

The static pose shows each planet lined up in order of distance from the Sun.

Animation 1 shows the Earth completing a full rotation in one minute and shows each planet’s relative position after the Earth has orbited the Sun once. Since animation 1 doesn’t show much of the rotations of the planets further from the Sun than Earth, I made a second animation.

Animation 2 shows Neptune completing a full rotation in one minute and shows each planet’s relative position after Neptune has orbited the Sun once. This animation gives a better sense of the scale of planets orbiting the Sun, since all planets complete at least one full orbit.