Modeled, rendered, and animated in Blender 2.81 with Eevee. Music and sound added in Premiere. Each model uses Principled shader and procedural textures, with two animated cameras and particle effects in the scene. Render time was only around 6 seconds per frame @1080p resolution on my RTX 2070 workstation.

Really great looking will add them to FB today and show them off

Thank you, Lobo!

It is scheduled to show up on the Rendo FB at 3:49 pm EST

Lobo3433 posted at 8:06PM Mon, 20 January 2020 - #4377256

It is scheduled to show up on the Rendo FB at 3:49 pm EST

Very much appreciate that, Lobo! Thank you very much.

Cool - and dramatic ending too!

SilentWinter posted at 12:54AM Tue, 21 January 2020 - #4377310

Cool - and dramatic ending too!

Thank you. The animation was obviously created in service of showing off the models and shaders, but it needed some payoff at the end there to hopefully keep it from being too boring. Glad you like it!

Ohhh, I'd love to know how you got that Starball to dissolve down to an Ico Sphere at the end. Very cool indeed!

Miss B posted at 10:31PM Wed, 22 January 2020 - #4377361

Ohhh, I'd love to know how you got that Starball to dissolve down to an Ico Sphere at the end. Very cool indeed!

Thank you, Miss B! The effect was accomplished with particles, as you most likely suspected. I'd make a tutorial but there's already dozens of videos out there which show many variations of the same technique. Here's a link to an easy one: Dust in the wind dissolve tutorial

The Icosahedron was just a separate object I hid inside the starball which revealed itself as the dissolve effect reached the end.

LuxXeon posted at 12:02AM Thu, 23 January 2020 - #4377495

Miss B posted at 10:31PM Wed, 22 January 2020 - #4377361

Ohhh, I'd love to know how you got that Starball to dissolve down to an Ico Sphere at the end. Very cool indeed!

Thank you, Miss B! The effect was accomplished with particles, as you most likely suspected. I'd make a tutorial but there's already dozens of videos out there which show many variations of the same technique. Here's a link to an easy one: Dust in the wind dissolve tutorial

The Icosahedron was just a separate object I hid inside the starball which revealed itself as the dissolve effect reached the end.

Ohhh, I should've realized that's how you set it up, but now that you mention it, it makes perfect sense. Thanks for the tutorial link, as I'm going to go check it out.