Ninja'd by Talvienno
Still, this post adds some details.
Catsu wrote:
Really nice work! i must ask (If you dont mind) what program? how did you do the skybox? and howd you do the lighting?
Thank you ! I'm using a program called After Effects, by Adobe. It's designed to make special effects for films.
The background is in fact the easiest part. I'm using 2 fratcal noises, the first one is color corrected to red and the second one is color corrected to a blue-purple color.
I add a very subtile annimation with the Evolution slider but not at the same speed for both layers.
Then I add backgroud stars, another fractal noise with very high contrast and low brightness.
I think you can do all of this in Photoshop, although it obviously won't be animated.
Lighting is a bit more tricky. I'm not sure what do you know about AE, so I'll try to keep it simple. If you want more precise instructions, just ask !
So, to create the planets, I use an effect called CShere. This effect already come with light presets, I just made it so it looks like the light comes from the "sun". You can duplicate the planet and add it on top to make some kind of an highlight.
For the sun, it's just a white circle always facing the camera with a lens flare : easily doable with Photoshop or GIMP. The ship is just a picture I took from the update #19, so the lighting on it is the one there was on the video.
BTW, when I'm done, I plan on doing a video explaining how it's done since it seems to interrest a few people here.
Hope it helps !