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Animating a 3D starfield

Animating a 3D starfield

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Animating a 3D starfield

What we're going to do today is create a fly through a sea of stars in some distant galaxy. going to fly right through billions of stars. What I'm going to do is I'm going to create a fairly small file based on the resolution that I'm working on here. So it's just going to be 8 inches by 10 inches wide at 72 DPI. There it is. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to press the F key to bring it to full screen. And right off the bat, I'm going to invert the background. So instead of being white it's black. I'm going to hit Cmd+I and there we have a black background. So now, I'm going to create a layer right on top of this. And I'm going to. My paintbrush. And I'll choose a nice, hard-edged brush right there. Choose that, 100%, and right now what it's going to do is, it does that. Let's undo that. And what I want to do is, I want to go into my brushes engine right here. And right off the bat, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to give it some spacing. I'm going to open it up so I can…

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