Blender 3D for Beginners: Create a Black Hole Animation

Blender 3D for Beginners: Create a Black Hole Animation (by Harry Helps)

• Level & Length: Beginner | ~4 Hours
• Software: Blender

Summary & Topics Covered

• Scene Setup: Viewport basics and deep space world environment settings.
• Procedural Shading: Designing the swirling accretion disk using node setups (no external textures required).
• VFX & Physics Simulation: Simulating gravitational lensing, emission shaders, and volumetric space dust.
• Animation: Setting up looping camera paths and rotation keyframes.
• Compositing & Rendering: Applying bloom, lens flares, color grading, and exporting the final loop.

Class Project

Create a custom, looping black hole scene with personalized colors/camera angles and export a final image or animation render.