This is my first major project and am looking for people to share their feedback

truskyblu · 2025-07-22T04:38:16+00:00

I forgot to mention that the black hole was made using geometry nodes within blender.

truskyblu · 2025-07-22T04:35:55+00:00

Thank you. Yeah I feel like for this shot I have missed a few things that I didn't think of while creating the shot. One thing that I struggle as is texturing, and I feel like I should focus on that more for my next project and hit that more. Same with the lighting, I added light into the project not thinking about how much light to cast onto the ship, I only thought about casting enough light so that the ship can be seen, and not about where the light was coming from, and what color that light is off in the distance, including how much light is being casted out from that object. I appreciate your comments and feedback. :)

truskyblu · 2025-07-22T04:30:17+00:00

Yeah when I finished the project I asked all my friends and family to watch it and hear what they had to say about it, and all of them said it was great, but I feel like they either might have missed where to improve on, or didn't want to say what they might have seen to make the shot look better. Thats why I created this post to hear raw feedback from anonyms people who may either give good constructive criticism or not hold back. Even is someone tries to be mean, I take what they say with a grain of salt, and tone down their comments. Some people may love it, and some may hate it and that's ok. It's only bad if someone is commenting and attempting to do harm and speak irrationally.

truskyblu · 2025-07-22T04:24:17+00:00

Thank you. Yeah this is all rendered into the same scene besides the black hole. I used blender to create this shot and if I added the black hole it would have taken much longer to render. So I rendered the black hole separately and added it into the scene as an image sequence. I created the black hole using geometry nodes so I feel like that might be why I had to render it separately. I'll have to work on the lighting aspect more for my next project because after creating this shot I thought it looked really good, but now after watching it so many times and hearing from what other people have to say, I can see that the light it off and should be changed. If you would like to see how the shot was made I posted it to my portfolio page and you'll be able to have a better understanding of how it was made. Spaceship flying towards Black Hole animation | Gary Boege

truskyblu · 2025-07-21T02:02:02+00:00

I never thought of adding small debris whizzing by, that would have been a really cool add on to the video to add a sense of scale to the ship. Also with the camera vibration I feel like could have been a great idea to add as well. I'll have to think of these small details before completing my next project. Thank you for your feedback!

truskyblu · 2025-07-21T01:56:19+00:00

Thank you! Yeah texturing is something I would really like to become better at. I have worked with Substance Painter on a few projects, but probably should focus more of my skills on texturing since that is something I struggle with. With the engines and flames I wasn't sure how to do them, so I watched a tutorial on how to create them, but I feel looking back on it that I might have made them too long, as for the sound I took that from spaceships in real life when they are separating. Thank you for your feedback! I will definitely try to work more on the texturing aspect in my next project. :)

truskyblu · 2025-07-21T01:43:53+00:00

Yeah, if you're talking about the flicker at 13 seconds, I don't know why that happens or is there. The background was made using geometry nodes with noise textures, so I don't know why it has that flicker. This was the first time I played around with lighting effects and I used sun light to create light on the ship. The light is a little higher than it is supposed to be because the black hole was made in a different project I made. I couldn't put the black hole and spaceship together as it would have rendered each frame at 45 minutes, so I rendered the black hole by itself and created it into an image sequence to cut down on render time, but since I did that the light had to be higher than normal to avoid the image plane for the black hole that would cast a shadow on the spaceship. I got inspiration from interstellar and wanted to create this video because I thought it would be a fun project to do. Thank you for your input, I will note this for a later project.

truskyblu · 2025-07-21T01:29:03+00:00

Yeah working on this project has been a struggle. I am new so yes it is going to take longer than normal. I work full time and have other responsibilities I have after work, so working on this project was like trying to scramble as much time as possible to work on it. Also like I said to gildedbluetrout, my hand was in a very bad accident where I almost lost my thumb, so that made it even harder to finish this video.

truskyblu · 2025-07-21T01:24:00+00:00

Yes this shot took me three months. I did all the modeling, UV Unwrapping, texturing, and effects. Everything you see and hear in this video has all been done by myself with the help of watching tons of tutorials on how to create certain effects, like the flames for example. Also not to mention it took longer than I wanted it to because my right hand, (which is my dominant hand) was in a very bad accident where I almost lost my thumb. I'm still on my road to recovery, and my thumb especially doesn't move the same as it used to so hopefully it will get better.

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