Space VFX
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- Have a deep understanding of Blender's material nodes
- Know how to create Planets, Asteroids, 360° SpaceScapes, Wormholes, BlackHoles and more.
- BONUS: All scene assets included (.blend files, textures)!
- Blender 2.78 or above
- A basic level understanding of Blender
Have you ever wanted to be a sci-fi filmmaker? Create your own Star Wars fan fiction in Blender? Or just add a jaw-dropping space render to your portfolio?
Creating artistically pleasing space phenomena can be tricky. Quasars, gas giants, nebulae and black holes - these things can make you and your computer suffer...
NO LONGER!
After watching this video course you’ll be ready to create even the most complex space phenomena in Blender.
INSTRUCTORS
Aidy Burrows - Artist, Overly Optimistic, Lead Instructor at CGMasters.
Gleb Alexandrov - Caffeinated Artist, Founder of CreativeShrimp Website.
WHAT'S INSIDE?
Video Info:
20+ hours, 1920 x 1080, MP4 format
30+ Space VFX Tutorials
2 Workflows: Procedural and Image-based
Software Used: Blender 2.77-2.79, Cycles, Krita, Gimp
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate
- Anyone who has ever wanted to be a sci-fi filmmaker
- Anyone who has wanted to create their own (eg) Star Wars fan fiction in Blender
In this introductory video we'll take a look at this Space VFX course and its contents. Grab your coffee (or may I also recommend - green tea, oat milk and cinnamon :D ) and let's get started!
The answers to questions we get asked more than anything else!!
- All significant changes made to get Blender working well in the least amount of time
- Quick reference of all changes at the beginning
- Theme changes
- Interface changes
- Editing changes
- Scene changes
- A sense of completion for reading all the way this far down the bulletpoint list. Bulletpoint list reading level up!
- One of the main surprises of Blender is just how incredibly
customizable it can be and as a beginner it can be surprising at best
and confusing at worst to see another version of blender that is looking
and behaving differently to their own.
While as tutorial creators we keep those changes to a minimum there are definitely some things you need to know about to get the most out of Blender.
What those changes are and why Gleb Alexandrov and I and many more blender users for that matter make those changes is what I want to share with you in this video.
We’ll get started by creating simple rocky planets.
Sections include :
Model and lighting
Equirectangular textures and UVs
Spherical texture projection
Creating a primary shader
Like all dramatic conclusions, we end up in a black hole. Where there is no escape. But it does look cool.
This section includes:
Environment
Refraction
Fresnel effect
Simulating gravitational lensing
After this Flythrough video you’ll know…
How to use a particle system to create a starfield.
How to create a star with built in streaks no compositing required.
Faking volumetrics with an array.
In this section:
Setting The Scene
Material And Array
Tweaks
Continuing on with the clouds...
In this section:
Stars
Camera Animation
Distance Fade
After this Baking video you’ll know…
- The dark side of procedural texturing
- The solution to speed up those render times – Baking!
- A checklist of things needed for a successful bake.
- Getting faster bakes.
- The bump map bake needs extra care!
Discover how to use the Micropolygon Displacement to take your sci-fi art to the next level. Imagine landscapes, tech panels, alien patterns and other thrilling VFX.
This section includes:
Micropolygon displacement basics
Terrain heightmaps
Continuing on with Micropolygon Displacement.
This section includes:
Procedural terrain
Generative modeling
Surface details from image
Optimizing memory usage
Continuing on with Micropolygon Displacement.
This section includes:
Baking depth maps
Sculpting doodle art with displacement
Continuing on with Micropolygon Displacement.
This section includes:
How to edit a displacement map
How to make a texture seamless
Image-based displacement
Animated displacement
Zoom in to the surface of an exoplanet in a step-by-step tutorial.
This section includes:
Displacing the planet surface
Color map
Bump map
Distance-based micro details
Shading
Continuing with the exoplanet.
This section includes:
View frustum culling
Occlusion culling
Animate the camera
Render
This is something that comes up A LOT in sci-fi, in fact the same kind of thing gets used in anime a fair bit too
- How to animate UV’s and trick the eye!!
- Using Cycles materials that display in real-time (Super low render times!)
- Procedural texturing techniques
- Procedural animating techniques
- How to set up a bendy bones rig
In this section:
Scene Setup
UV’s - Maximum Warp!
Carrying on with the wormhole in this section:
Bendy Bones Rig
Procedural Animation
Material Base Layer
Carrying on with the wormhole in this section:
The End
Go Faster Stripes
Give it a Pulse
Bring Da Noize (mid Freq)
Star Streakers
Carrying on with the wormhole in this section:
Beware The Beyond!
Edge Highlight
Procedural Texture Tiling
Final Tweaks
While the recent wormhole tutorial deals with a flythrough by tricking the eye with animated uv’s, lets do another flythrough technique where we instead take the camera on the journey. To make it a bit more interesting lets see what tips and tricks we can pull out to go all innerspace instead of outerspace and simulate bloodcells flowing inside arteries.
In this section:
Setting The Scene
The Heart of a Donut
Camera On A Curve
Displace The Donut
Particle Systems
In this section:
Generated UV’s
Fundamentals
Follow Active Quads
Pinning And Unfolding
MultiObject Editing
Carrying on with our essential uv tips
In this section:
Animated UV’s
Transferring UV’s
Magic UV’s
No UV’s!