Dark Star

Dark Star is a short cinematic built in Unreal Engine 5, set in the gravitational pull of a collapsing star. Capital ships drift in the foreground as light bends around a dying sun, its accretion disk casting copper and amber across the debris field. A moon tumbles slowly through the middle distance. Nothing explodes. Nothing attacks. Just the weight of something enormous, slowly ending.

The piece explores scale and stillness in deep space, using Space Creator Pro and Lumen to build a physically grounded environment where the lighting does all the storytelling. Color graded in DaVinci Resolve through a Linear-ACES pipeline.

Unreal Engine 5 · Lumen · Space Creator Pro · DaVinci Resolve · ACES