Nuke astro images

For my astro images I’m not going to do individual blog post because I’m expecting there too be quite a few so I’m just going to keep this one as a single blog post with updates when I work on my astro images.

My first image took me about a day to get off the ground because I did not have any idea what I wanted to do with my previous images, so I looked through my old photographs, NASA and Hubble telescope trying to get an idea. My first idea was to use my nebula photo and space window from google cut around it and then have the nebula expand and have the window rotat very slowly to give the idea that you are in space looking down.

Second image was a nebula I wanted to show it expanding and contracting using grid warp afterwards I used colour correction to brighten the green, yellows and organ and darken the blacks and blues.

The green ice texture is meant to look like the surfaces of a planet I started off by bring my images into photoshop and adding a blend layer so until I found one that let me see through the ice texture I wasn’t satisfied with how it looked it wasn’t see-through enough so next I used the brush reduced the hardness and painted over the whole image, had to go over some of the darker areas finally I brought the image into nuke and using the grid warp I just made the “liquid” move into three directions.

Satellite circling galaxies this one had a lot of moving parts it got frustrating because I only wanted to make the colour of the satellite darker to match the image, originally, I used the colour picker but it didn’t work so I had to go onto a nuke help page and re-trace my step but add another layer in photoshop do the colour correction then bring it into nuke.

Space cloud found an old image of mine that originally was too dark but I was able to access the raw file and brighten the image then brought in a star background used blend layer to so that you can see the stars, brought the image into nuke and used grid warp to tessellate the first layer and que the star background somehow out of blind luck the stars only show were the layer is darkest.

Ideas for my 10 astro images

Space window

Nebula

Ice textures (2 images one were the liquid moves around the circles)

planet in clouds

Space clouds

Satellites circling galaxies