The focus of my video is more on the Möbius strip and its impossible geometry rather than how many trees are in the shot. In that regard, I used texture paint and a texture map to create the surface of the “Earth”.
I chose the night sky as the background because it fits both the theme of walking along the path and the spacey feel of the zoom-out. If the final video doesn’t come out the way I envision it, I can always make it day in the first shot, and while we zoom out, the scene will transition into the stars.