This tutorial might not be as lazy as Ian Hubert's usual ones, but it's still a really cool one. Ian Hubert, the legendary Blender VFX Artist, is back with a video showing how he animated a spaceship using physics, something he said he wanted to do years ago with the old Blender game engine.
For the project, he got help from Erindale Woodford and Austin Koch, along with Erindale's add-on that uses the XInput Python library to control Blender with a gamepad on Windows.
This approach was used during the production of Dynamo Dream, Ian's sci-fi web series created entirely with Blender. Lux Taylor has also been documenting the full process of building the spaceship set:
