Before Starship Flight 12, I used the information available about Starship V3 to guess how hot staging may be performed with the new design of Super Heavy.
I theorised that the ship should be inverted so the booster can flip upwards without the exhaust impinging on the grid fins. SpaceX also mentioned that the engines should also be ignited with asymmetric timing to apply an unbalanced force on the booster, inducing a flip in the desired direction. You can see the Raptor vacuum engine closest to the camera in my animation igniting a bit sooner than the others. I also assumed they'd do the same thing with the sea level Raptors as before, where they ignite after separation and are pointed out to avoid cooking the forward dome.
During Starship Flight 12, the ship was inverted during hot staging, confirming that part of the animation was accurate. However, during the launch stream it was only said that a sea level Raptor being ignited at a different time was supposed to induced the flip, so it appears my engine start-up sequence may have been inaccurate. However, the booster did not seem to flip in the correct direction and suffered engine failures leading me to believe in the potential for SpaceX to incorporate a new engine start-up sequence to solve this, which may more closely resemble my theorised one.
As part of my Starship catch animation project, I rendered this video to test the lighting and animation which I had set up for the final scene of the project.
This is one of the first scenes which I completed for my Starship catch animation and I used it for my teaser trailer for the project. It shows Starship entering the Earth's atmosphere over the west cost of North America.
The scene is almost entirely crated in Blender except for the person walking down the beach which is actually a video of myself which I rotoscoped and placed in the scene.
I created this animation of Starship approaching Mars after I reached two thousand followers as a thanks to all the new people who had taken interest in my work.
I created this animation of Starship entering Mars's atmosphere after I reached one thousand followers as a thanks to all the people who had supported me when I was still a small creator.
The light blue colour of the plasma was chosen because it is expected to be observed when Starship enters Mars's atmosphere due to the composition of the Martian atmosphere.
This is a test animation for the re-entry effects I created for my Starship model. I referenced early flights of Starship when I crteated these effects where the heat shield was in early development so ablation of steel and inperfect tiles lead to the sparks and red-orange colouring which I replicated in these effects.
I intend to re-make these re-entry effects to match what was observed on Starship Flight 12 where the heat shield was in good condition throught flight and showed very little ablation.