It's not rocket surgery

Much as I'm a fan of using practical models for realism, or "faking it in post" like in the Tiny Inventions video, pretty often is more efficient to break out the 3D CG models. Also, as a fan of commercial space travel, it's fun to practice my (rather limited) 3D skills on a model of the rocket that's likely to carry the worlds first commercial orbital manned space capsule. SpaceX's Falcon 9. This is the first time I've used UV mapping to texture an object, so you could say that's another world first for the rocket. You could, but let's not mention it.

 

Rocket exhaust done in After Effects with Trapcode Particular.