3d Nebulae Archives - a dump of our Blender Nebulae renders since 2013
We've been experimenting with 3d nebulae rendering in Blender since 2013 at least. Here's a dump of our test renders and stuff.
All rendered in Blender, Cycles. 100% procedural, no fluid sims involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpC8bp1eRh0 - Watch the teaser of our upcoming Nebula course
3d nebula in Blender
Procedural noise
The Vector 'forces' affecting the texture input, pushing and pulling the volume
Celestial clouds
A 2d slice of a 3d Perlin Noise
Multiple iterations of 3d noise
The shader spherified
All rendered in Cycles
The nebular explosion
The thin flowy structures of the FBM (fractal Brownian motion) noise
An embedded noise (3 iterations of the noise texture affecting itself)
Procedurality in action
The fiery self-illuminated nebula tendrils
The Nebulae video course CG teaser