Now free for to all – using Cinema 4D and Arnold Renderer to stretch out the stars in the night sky to create animated time-lapse style star trails! Final tutorial in the series based on the techniques from my Swedish Steel Prize project. See them all:
00:00 – Intro
00:23 – Scene intro
00:48 – Creating the Sky
01:22 – Creating the Stars
01:50 – Creating the Star Trails
03:10 – Adding a Material
03:25 – Adding an Arnold-tag and refining the shape
(The Arnold-tag can be replaced with a Sweep-Nurbs if you’re using a different renderer)
03:59 – Adding variation to the stars with the Utility-shader
05:42 – Controlling the length with a MoSpline
06:35 – Animating the star-trails with he MoSpline
08:28 – Final thoughts and alternatives for other render engines
Music:
Opening Piece – Nocturne 2 by Ben Lukas Boysen
Intro & Outro – Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It (Instrumental) by Ice Cube