AnimationNEWVERSE: Hyperlight Transit Sequence (FTL travel visualized)

authormoreau

Made this a while back with a "dummy" ship that rendered quickly so I could illustrate how FTL travel works in my universe. Notice the light breaking into a spectrum as the ship gets ready to enter HyperLight.

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authormoreau

85 views, anybody like it?

rojren

Yeah, you get that around here. It's dispiriting.

I like it fine. I like the movement of the ship in the corridor. The destination star is flared, but the origin point star isn't. Is there a reason for that?

authormoreau

yeah, mostly just illustrating that it was travelling between two different types of stars. one smaller and less bright, the other larger and more intense.

RandalR

Pretty fantastic.

from one noob. it's got space and animation and fx, that's what I like.


...and it is because people are very used to these animations and 3d-2d, it is not easy to impress , unless you have a lot of friends
who don't know a thing bout any of it...hehehehe

SuddenFrost

The Finished Work forum doesn't seem to get much traffic, anyway. Most people go to the WIP forum.

If you're going to have stars visible outside the corridor (unlike hyperspace in Star Wars), you should probably make the starfield move past the ship in order to convey that it's traveling interstellar distances. I'd also like to see you swing the camera around from the stern of the ship to the fore, so that you can show what the transition between the blueshifted corridor and the redshifted corridor looks like.