How To Make Epic Auroras in Blender Eevee

What better thing to do in lockdown than to make this fully 3d animated Northern Lights? In this tutorial we go in depth on shader nodes such as: Color Ramp, Map Range, RGB Curve and Noise. And I promise not to wear a giant Bob Ross wig while doing it. This tutorial is ok for beginners but you need to know your way around the Blender interface, so if you're just starting out I recommend going through the official Blender Fundamentals training first: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6 HDRI Used: https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?c=night&h=kloppenheim_02 Links for reference images used during the video: https://unsplash.com/photos/Hn8N4I4eHA0 https://unsplash.com/photos/XnfkPNGTp5w https://unsplash.com/photos/62V7ntlKgL8 Enjoy! 0:00 Intro 0:27 Initial scene setup 2:41 Initial Aurora shader setup 5:47 Adding basic shapes 13:24 Adding the vertical fading 18:36 Adding colour 20:19 Making the streak effect 28:53 Fixing rendering issues 30:38 Fading the edges 32:43 Animating the ribbons 38:11 Basic environment 40:36 Examples of this technique