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Artist Used NASA Photos to Take Us Through Space with Blender

A fantastic journey by Victor Vargas inspired by JVKE's song.

You don't have to be an astronaut to experience a space adventure – all thanks to Victor Vargas, a Motion Designer and Film Director who created a concept music video for JVKE's song called This Is What Space Feels Like.

In the cinematic, created with Blender and After Effects, JVKE breaks through the edge of space arriving at a giant glowing tree. 

"I pushed myself to learn new techniques—shattering rigid bodies, creating light tunnels, holdouts and other advanced compositing—and came out a better artist because of it. More than anything, I just had to get this idea out of my head and onto the screen," Vargas said.

Victor Vargas

As you can see in the breakdown section, the artist distorted the image plane using NASA photos and made an array of glowing spheres for stars and some planets from BlenderKit.

For the jump, he used the Optics Compensation effect "and warped the image a ton."

"Finding/creating the purple glass material, shattering the rigid body in a very specific way, making a tree made of particles and bringing to life a specific vision and look of this otherworldly environment was challenging but so rewarding."

If you want to learn more about the production process and see other projects, check out Vargas's Instagram.

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