Some Baby Steps on "Red Star Flyby"

I am still not getting things done very fast. I don't think I have that much more I can do on it. There are too many interesting things on the Internet.
 

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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