Create Realistic Black Holes in Blender | Full Tutorial

Alaskan FX · 415K views · 2023 · 36:38

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Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it

Blender Stack Exchange users cite it as the tutorial they followed when asking for help with problems in their own black hole renders, such as missing faces, slow Cycles renders, keyframing and exporting to other software.

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What it is

A 36-minute Blender tutorial by Alaskan FX on building a realistic black hole, covering gravitational lensing, the accretion disk and compositing tips. The description links a coordinates node file and notes that an updated version of the tutorial exists.

What people said

Cites Swap · 2023-09 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Blender Refraction BSDF not working”

I tried using your method, but the sphere is still grey. I think this might be because of a geometry node setup I'm using. I'll link the video I'm following. [this video]

Cites Saucier · 2023-10 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Exporting Animation from Blender to C4D”

I hope you are doing well! I am reaching out to all the C4D/Blender GURU's for help on a specific matter that I cannot find on Google... How do I export this animation? As a vdb? I've tried .fbx. and alembic but they aren't transferring to C4D.... I can't find anything online about how to take a project like this with all these shaders and nodes and now animation, and turn it into vdb files so that I can then load that vdb into my render's volume option... any advice? (I somehow managed to make this after 6 attempts lmfaooo) [this video] but now I don't know how to get the vdb... I wanted to import it into my scene in C4D and render everything with the render engine, Arnold, that I have.... Do yo

Cites Codeblues6 · 2024-04 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Why are some faces disappearing from on the camera view?”

I was following a YouTube tutorial: [this video] and when I tried to see the result from the camera and some parts of the black hole's ring were missing. When I checked it from the viewport, everything is okay. Is there a way to fix this? [LINK] [LINK]

Cites user186286 · 2024-04 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Black Hole Rendering And Keyframing Issue”

Rendering Issue I tried creating a black hole by following a YouTube tutorial . I did everything correctly. (Rendering format is Cycles). I tried rendering it, but it didn't came as shown in the render preview. While rendering this my laptop keep getting stuck and my project closes its own. I don't know why. I couldn't take a screenshot in my Blender, so I took a picture in my phone. It shows that Blender isn't responding. Keyframe Issue I tried animating my black hole like original one moves. But in tutorial the black hole moves. Mine doesn't moves a bit. I add keyframes but it also didn't work. I tried it numerous times. When I add a keyframe for location in frame 1. And then I add a keyfr