WOAH!!! That’s the most gorgeous sci-fi shot I’ve EVER seen in my life!!!
Alright. OL, you gotta start making a sci-fi movie. That’s just insane.
@Animaniac: VERY nice job, man! How’d you do that?
You know what, you could use that for what they are calling the “Bokah effect” It’s very cool. If you go back and look at animation from the '60’s, like the beginning of Looney Toons, they used to do something like that, but they couldn’t get it exactly that way (I don’t think.)
Did you use Blender stars or some other object? Like a circle?
Anyway, it’s really neat. Keep playing with effects like this. Maybe you should do a tutorial. There’s tons of things that could be used in.
Yeah, that’s REALLY gorgeous. Great compositing.
About the acceleration, all I used was tori, f-curves, lens distortion, and gaussian blur. As for the Bokeh effect, do you mean Bokeh being added into the blur node or using the defocus node for Bokeh?
Tried to use BI to make this realistic-er, wound up taking like eight minutes/frame to render, 66 hours of rendering, 42 of which were in a row on two computers:
Definitely using Cycles next time, would probably be faster.
@Animaniac: Well, the only way I’ve seen it done was in this one YouTube tutorial where the guy actually made a star cutout from a plane, then put the plane way off in the distance in front of a light. So it was, technically, a Bokah, I guess…
But I took it for more of a homemade sort of Bokah. At any rate, he used some glare, but I didn’t know anything about compositing back then, so I was a little confused.
This is better, though.
@OL: LOL! Great little animation. Yeah, I can see how BI would be protesting that it wanted several additional smokebreaks while doing THAT one!
It’s “bokeh”, not “bokah”. 
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@Animaniac: Well, the only way I’ve seen it done was in this one YouTube tutorial where the guy actually made a star cutout from a plane, then put the plane way off in the distance in front of a light. So it was, technically, a Bokah, I guess…
42 hours…
I don’t think Cycles would have held on that long either. At any rate, I found lots of bugs in that 2.6 release, mainly Particle and VSE related. Haven’t reported them yet, though, as I think I’ve reached my monthly quota of false/stupid bug reports.
Right right. Like “Sanne.”
Cin eh.
Eh.
I wish BI supported Object-based lighting. I had to fake the planet rim illumination with SSS.
It also required frightningly complex and clever compositing. I must be doing something wrong.
WOAH!!! That’s the most gorgeous sci-fi shot I’ve EVER seen in my life!!!
Alright. OL, you gotta start making a sci-fi movie. That’s just insane.
I just checked your Youtube channel…I’m flattered!
Oh, and I’m more into those Scientific Documentary type movies. Checkthis out. Great inspiration for a 3D artist.
Spinoff:
Nova has great CGI
love that show
Nova has great CGI
love that show
I wonder if they use Blender. I wouldn’t be surprised, I know the History Channel uses it for all of its CGI effects and animations.
i did not know that
just found out that is was used by the storyboard department of spider-man 2
OL77 have you tried this for the planet rim? http://venomgfx.com.ar/tutos/falloff/
looks a bit simpler…
OL77 have you tried this for the planet rim? http://venomgfx.com.ar/tutos/falloff/
looks a bit simpler…
I’ll take a look at that. Thanks!
Well, the method from the last post didn’t work, and the SSS is taking ages, so I just broke down and used an area lamp to fake it. Currently rendering an animation in HD:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19685
Hot off the CPU:
Stanley Kubrick is kicking himself you weren’t around.
Honestly, I liked the blue sun better on the little one, but that render, the colors of the planet…
Que magnifique!
Que magnifique!
I’m learning Spanish, not French.
Honestly, I liked the blue sun better on the little one, but that render, the colors of the planet…
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/images/hr_static.jpg
LOL Epic french grammar fail.
Here are a few of my recent smoke tests:
Number 1 and 3 were failures, and the sound effects for number 2 were desynced.