TRANSIT

“Transit” was a spaceship concept that led to an experiment in animated concept art. The trick is EB Synth – free software that can take a single repainted frame of a video and project it across the rest of the video’s frames. That experiment yielded the animation below. The ship design evolved later into the images above.

And here are some process images to better explain the steps involved:

Geometry modeled in Blender – mostly rough forms
The animation is rendered in Eevee
A few key frames are painted like concept art. EB Synth uses these to repaint the entire animation.
Another layer of more detailed geometry is composited
Color grading, lens dispersion, glare, grain and more yield the final look.