Xeelee Nightifhgter hyperdrive animation

I’m about ready to call this one done, thanks to everyone who posted in the WIP thread. The Xeelee Nightfighter is a spaceship in the novels of Stephen Baxter that deploys wings of folded spacetime to move.

Stills (nothing fancy, I have something much more grandiose planned):
Fleetfront
Fleetside
Fleetrear

25 second animation - download it here or watch the YouTube video below (1080p HD available !)

The background images are all real images, not made in Blender !

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wow this is just amazing! … how did u made the transition when the wings are raising? and how did u made the space/time warp at the end?? stunning work!!!

That was awesome.

Wow, looks really fantastic! gj

Great job! I don’t really like the design (personal feeling :slight_smile: ) but it come out very good, especially the special effects. Did you use only
blender to make them?

Cheers for the comments. The effects are all done with Blender, nothing very fancy… volumetric spotlights with some “only cast” cubes spinning about, some RVKS and wave modifiers for the wings plus some animated transparency. The ripple effects were done using the good old warp plugin; no doubt there are better ways to do this with nodes, but I already know how to use this and it’s very fast.

Wow… do I fail at spelling “Nightfighter” ! :stuck_out_tongue: