AD ASTRA - Neptune explosion

I had the privilege to concept out final explosion sequence in the end of the movie. was a really fun project to work on,
keeping the art direction and high levels of exposure was a challenge but i think it turned out quite nicely :)
Hope you all like it.

did so many of these that i almost could animate the whole thing :).
exploring the level of damage done on the first hit

the direction was to keep it over exposed quite heavily, very fast i ran out of values to still keep some detail and keep the feeling of burning white hot explosion in space

exploring the different tenticle like propagation of the explosion waves

some additional key frames of the module re entering Neptune rings earlier in the story