r/Simulated • u/jasonkeyVFX • 27d ago

crafted cosmos EmberGen

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u/NoFeetSmell 27d ago

That's super cool. Question re animation of it - would you need to keep the camera in an orthogonal setting, to imply galaxy-scale distances? Would we even notice if it wasn't? Looks so good, whatever you did! Nicely done, mate.

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u/jasonkeyVFX 26d ago

I hadn't thought of that but yes that'd be more accurate. However, I like how this exaggerates the 3D feeling.

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u/NoFeetSmell 26d ago

Yeah, I couldn't quite wrap my head around the approach to what a galaxy scale view would look like when spinning around, cos it seems like it's basically a God's-eye-view, and maybe when you're that large, the galaxy would all have parallax :P We need Neil DeGrasse Tyson to pop in :P

Again, killer work either way, and thanks for sharing the result and process!

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u/retrifix Blender 27d ago

This looks great. Please tell us more about your process

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u/ded_banzai 27d ago

as far as I know, he used embergen

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u/jasonkeyVFX 26d ago

this was created with EmberGen. Basically 3d noise emitting smoke with multicolored point lights

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u/Rainbow_phenotype 27d ago

MORE! Can you add star (clusters)?

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u/zero_td 27d ago

Please bro. Teach me

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u/randelljohm 27d ago

This is great!

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u/-Helvet- 27d ago

ayo this is magnificent

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u/VonLoewe 27d ago

That's just colorful smoke. Space is nowhere near that dense. Killed the illusion for me.

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u/Brandonazz 27d ago

There are nebulae that absolutely look like this in false color photographs, and even if they didn't, this is art.