I modified one of the planets to give it some clouds. I'm not
really a cloud making kind of guy. I hope it looks better with the clouds.
I’ve added a soundtrack. NASA turned some of the signals they
picked up from probes they sent to other planets into audio files. Some of them sound quite "spacy", so
I used them. They’re also in the public domain. I've listened to it several
times but haven't decided if I want to add more sounds. I’ve thought of adding
some “computer” beeps or a burst of telemetry sound.
Earlier I created some short clips of the probe approaching
the star connected by dissolves to give a better sense of the distances. I wanted
to add something similar at the end. As I worked on this, I decided that the
clips I added at the start were not right. It me quite a bit of time to rethink
what they should look like. Then it took a long time to make the changes to the
Blender animation. I think I have the inbound video the way I like it now. I started
on the outbound videos, but I’m not done yet.
Little changes seemed to get bigger and bigger as you work on
them. This is a common problem. I doubt I’ll ever be satisfied with the animation,
but at some point I’ll have to call it finished.
After I get the all the video cleared up, I want to add some
on-screen captions to give some information on what is being shown. I haven’t
given too much thought to that yet.
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