Hello, there! This is my first render which I played a lot with composition, to level my art up to more epic and atmospheric style.
Technical Notes
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The Laniakea Supercluster is done with multiple particles, by following these steps:
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Make the main shape with Skin Modifier.
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Generate the guide lines with particle hair.
I also used a turbulence force as well, to make the hair a bit more look attracted to a specific point.
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Convert the hair to mesh.
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Generate particles on the hair mesh.
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For the Sun, I generated flares with a volume shader by following Samuel Krug’s Solar Flares tutorial.
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Planet textures are from https://www.solarsystemscope.com/textures/.
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Composition is done with Blender’s compositor, Davinci Resolve, After Effects and Premiere Pro. (Premiere Composer made it easy.)
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Overall, Iago Mota’s Particle workflow tutorial helped me a lot.
I originally tried to make The Laniakea Supercluster with Geometry Nodes. But, I found that particle system is still better for this kind of thing, because the shape is more manually controllable with it.
Anyway, this is how we are small and lonely… People, STOP THAT MADNESS. (And let’s embrace our home planet instead 
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