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Posted 03 October 2011 - 02:14 PM Link to post

Hey everyone! Ever since I saw Majahr's cool starfield test right back when HitFilm was released I wanted to see if I could create a cool space establishing shot.

This is by no means finished, but I'm quite pleased with how it looks so far:



Obviously the 'spacedust' particles are simple untextured circles at the moment and it's lacking in detail in general, but using fairly simple techniques it's already looking quite funky.

Once I'm back from my wedding shenanigans at the end of the month I'll be putting together a proper tutorial on a more polished version of this shot.
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Posted 03 October 2011 - 03:08 PM Link to post

Amazing!

The only issue is the texture (or lack of) for the stars; it's particularly noticeable at 0:05. Put some star textures in there and it will be perfect!

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Posted 03 October 2011 - 04:39 PM Link to post

Most impressive. Your skills are nearly complete....for this effect anyway. :laugh:

Great job, Simon! And I hope you have a safe, happy and fun time on your honeymoon (you're not going to this nebula are you? There he goes, off to live in the little universe he's created :biggrin: ). Congrats to you and your bride. I'm sure you'll be missed around here.
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Posted 03 October 2011 - 09:29 PM Link to post

This looks sweet!, but yeah - stars need textures. Particularly at 0:05 , as a star comes right up close to the camera. I'd love to know how you made the fluffy space cloud!, his it a transparent PNG? - some sort of preset?

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Posted 04 October 2011 - 08:15 AM Link to post

Yep, as noted the space dust is just there to give it a sense of motion at the moment, and haven't been textured or finessed at all.

The space cloud is a mixture of a 3D particle cloud and a sliced up 2D NASA image. The bulk of it is the NASA image, but I then stuck on the basic 'fluffy cloud' effect to give the whole area a sense of volumetric density, as the camera moves through it. The end result is that - for the most part - it's hard to see what exactly is flat image and what is proper 3D cloud.
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Posted 04 October 2011 - 09:40 AM Link to post

Already looking good Its really intresting to see the work in process shots. I look forward to seeing it develop
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Posted 06 October 2011 - 01:51 AM Link to post

Looks great... i were remembered at "Wing Commander"! And i just LOVE that Style... :-)
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Posted 10 October 2011 - 07:08 AM Link to post

Hey everyone! Ever since I saw Majahr's cool starfield test right back when HitFilm was released I wanted to see if I could create a cool space establishing shot.

This is by no means finished, but I'm quite pleased with how it looks so far:



Obviously the 'spacedust' particles are simple untextured circles at the moment and it's lacking in detail in general, but using fairly simple techniques it's already looking quite funky.

Once I'm back from my wedding shenanigans at the end of the month I'll be putting together a proper tutorial on a more polished version of this shot.

Simon, need to make a simple tutorial on how you did this, It is cool as, weelll you know. :smile:

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Posted 10 October 2011 - 03:47 PM Link to post

Um, in the post you quoted, guitar74, Simon already said he is going to make a tutorial. :smile:

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Posted 10 October 2011 - 06:58 PM Link to post

The only issue I see is that after his end-of-month wedding shennanigans, he'll be wrapped up in his beginning-of-month newlywed shennanigans (possibly even carrying on to middle-of-month shennanigans, unless of course he hits the time-of-month shennanigans barrier), which will push back his time to make a tutorial on this really nice effect even farther.. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Posted 12 October 2011 - 06:52 PM Link to post

The only issue I see is that after his end-of-month wedding shennanigans, he'll be wrapped up in his beginning-of-month newlywed shennanigans (possibly even carrying on to middle-of-month shennanigans, unless of course he hits the time-of-month shennanigans barrier), which will push back his time to make a tutorial on this really nice effect even farther.. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


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Posted 21 October 2011 - 09:13 AM Link to post

Hehe, thanks guys. I definitely want to put a tute together for this sooner rather than later.

In case you didn't spot it in the recent showreel, here's a newer version of the shot:




Considerably improved from the original, I think. What do you reckon?
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Posted 21 October 2011 - 10:24 AM Link to post

Awesome...hmmm...trying to replicate thuch clip by my own :dry: :dry: but it looks very impresive...

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