back at it like a crack addict

The Devil works hard. I don't.

I've been Blender-ing my ass off recently. First thing I did was fix the animation for the black hole; when I DM'ed the creator he mentioned adding a copy rotation modifier to the accretion disc, which was something I did when following the tutorial. At least, I thought I did. Turns out I didn't see the Apply button so it never actually went into affect. Whatever, though. It's fixed now.

After I finished that, I tried using this tutorial to add a realistic star background to the animation. I didn't think it'd be possible, though, because the black hole itself uses a shitload of math to bend the light within Blender.

Unfortunately my guess was correct; since the stars are all different light sources, the ones around the perimeter of the black hole bend weirdly. It's not super easy to see in the photo, but if you look closely it's noticeable. If anything I'll add a background in post if it's not too much of a hassle, but otherwise I'm fine with there being no stars in the background.

That's a long-winded way of saying I'm not doing a starry background, because it will be a hassle; I hate rotoscoping.

This is not a [CENSORED]

Moving on to the next piece of my Blender tasks, I started the spacecraft. On the left is a very early stage in the development, the engine terminal.

The tutorial is easy enough to follow, my only concern is whether or not I'll be able to film the black hole together with the ship. It would save me a decent amount of money if I can.

The only reason I can think of as to why it wouldn't work is that the black hole is basically just a painting inside the bounds of a sphere and a square in Blender.

In other words, if the spaceship is coming towards the black hole in one shot, it would be clipping through the shapes that the black hole exists inside of, which would either not work at all, or would give me a very limited range that I could have the ship move through.

It looks a little phallic...

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I like reading through other peoples' blogs a lot. It's fun.

Or at least it was fun until I saw how many of these dickheads are already done. 

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