How to make the Earth burn in Blender 2.8 with Cycles

In this tutorial we will use animated masks to create an animation of the Earth being destroyed by a devastating explosion. We wont be covering creating the actual Earth as that's been done in many other tutorials, we will however go through the process of creating a scorched earth material, putting together masks to transition between it and the original material and we'll put together some cool shock wave effects too!

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If you need a good reference for making you're own Earth here is a good one from BlenderGuru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q8PwcDzb8Y I'd also STRONGLY recommend the Space VFX course from Gleb Alexandrov and Aidy Burrows. It's been one of my favourite courses for Blender to date: https://www.creativeshrimp.com/spacevfx.html