So seeing "Interstellar" was very inspiring for me from that point. Before, I thought it was just an artistic trick to make it appear more visually plausible.For every noise texture I used single vector coordinate. Yes, you can have large amounts of water coming in from afar. At this point, they are freely walking around, therefore, the gravity they are experiencing, is the sum Gargantua gravity pulling them roughly up, minus the gravity from the planet pulling at their feet, is approximately 1g. Hi everyone, my name is Nika Maisuradze (aka BlackRainbow), i'm generalist 3d artist from Georgia. Yeah, I guess movie had too much influence on me :)I hope this article was informative enough. Here is little insight on howmade my recent "Interstellar" inspired artwork.I always felt passion for sci-fi and for hard science. My first tests were with smoke simulation. Result I multiplied with another spherical gradient to make a hole in the middle of the disk. distortion setup).Still I tried to optimize scene but after trying to render some one of the tests in fullHD and finding out it would take 3 days, I thought it's right time to try second option - procedural approach. So, one and only idea I had is to mimic it with actual lensing, with refraction:The refraction shader's IOR input is mapped with sphere gradient to which the value of 1 is added so at the darkest point of gradient the shader would still have 1 as an IOR, so it would not distort image where it is not needed.The distortion geometry is always facing the camera so the distortion will be the same from all angles (which is true only for non rotating, black holes, rotating black hole's gravitational distortion has a well defined structure in the space, which also is referred as frame dragging). Bat at latest iterations I decided to render it as a two separate layers. In the Behind the Scenes series, I'm inviting artists to talk about the creation of one of their works.
[videos] => Array Share Interstellar Gargantua with your friends. For inner ring I used noise to add a specific glow effect.I had a few versions for color grading setup, but at the end I decided to keep the red-yellow tone, which is closer to the one that was in the movie. [SPOILERS] - In the scene, they are in daylight, implying, they are facing gargantua at that time. There isn't enough water present. As a result, the strip of light matter streaking through the centre of Gargantua is quite close to factual accuracy, absolute confirmation of which we shall find in the coming months, with continued observation of it and the Sagittarius-A black hole, by the EHT.Furthermore, the real image of the black hole shows different intensities of light around its top-left edge, with a brighter crescent towards the bottom-right. As a result, there are two parts of the spin — one, where light is speeding towards us, and the other, where light is being thrown in a direction opposite to us. The Scientific Accuracy of Gargantua. ) The black hole is 10 billion light-years away from Earth and rotates at 99.8% the speed of light. So now I had full control of the inner ring. A Time Warner Company. Foreground layer, non distorted front part of the disk. 5 samplesLater at the compositing stage I still decided to tint the result to yellow - red tones, so the blue colors are barely visible, if at all. Array And the background, distorted part of the disk. Pleasantly, a report published by Gizmodo has revealed a piece of detail from the movie — its portrayal of the black hole was actually strikingly close to the reality. In interstellar, Gargantua is a supermassive Kerr black hole with a 100 million solar mass. The tilted angle at its poles where we observed the black hole also explain the irregularity in the photon circle that can be seen around the dying star. ) Of course, there were certain discrepancies such as incidental light properties and the way it behaves in space, in comparison to what was shown on screen, but for the large part, Nolan’s bit of scientific research work around black holes was very, very close to reality. Scene from Interstellar Resolution: 1920x1080 blkhlnocnt.png Resolution: 1920x1080 Wormhole to another galaxy may exist in Milky Way Resolution: 1920x1080 I could add all the glows and stuff and the add the foregroundI was using Blender for compositing of this project. Interstellar is possibly one of the most gorgeous space epics of all time. It is a bit soft and bright. The science behind "Interstellar" 02:13 The film explores the possibilities of life beyond the Earth, on an exoplanet to be exact -- a planet located outside of our solar system. I guess the movie had influenced little bit too much.At some point I was rendering the result as a one single layer and then masking out some parts to get a glow source mask for inner bright ring. But at some point when composite node tree had become too complex, I decided to use of Fusion (free edition). "Main bright layer", "Dark cloudy", and "Soft Gaseous"At one point I tried to light the disk from one point light source from the center, results were interesting, but it more looked like a clouds in earth's atmosphere rather than something stellar. This explains the optical difference in the real image, since the spin creates a significant difference in the amount of time that the two light sources take to travel to Earth.In Interstellar, this one detail was not included, because cinematically speaking, we were looking at the black hole at a much closer distance, in comparison to what we saw from Earth. (

And I thought, I should try it.As coding a new integrator, or a renderer was not an option for me, I had to figure out how to mimic it relatively closely with existing resources.