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Put a light source inside/near the object.

Off topic, but:

This is why when the sun is around the horizon especially on a hot day, tends to look bigger.

That's actually an optical illusion. When on the horizon, the sun is surrounded by smaller objects that make it look bigger by comparison.

It also gets redder because the light is weakened as it passes through more atmosphere (the light itself looses energy).

Close, but not quite. Shorter wavelengths (blue, green) are scattered more easily than longer wavelengths (red, yellow). As the light passes through more of the atmosphere, more of the shorter wavelengths have been scattered out, leaving only the longer wavelengths.

Try Google.

Here's my still. I tried recording my progress, but Screen2Avi had other plans. So, in place of a video, I've attached a drawing of my original idea for the spacecraft. Everything modeled and rendered in Anim8or, postwork and textures in Photoshop.

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Or, you could cut out a square piece of a highly subdivided long/lat sphere, UV map it so a texture extends just beyond its boundaries, then load it into Terranim8or. Displace it using a height map and put it back in Anim8or. Once in Anim8or, rotate and move the object until the terrain is at the origin.

And here are the originals.

Finally have a better starfield, but because of the highly subdivided spheres making up the giant robot (and because my computer's a potato) Anim8or sometimes freezes while loading the file.