There was a wonderful video "Concept Space Suite":
As the author writes, this is an experimental verification of a certain project related to space, seriously working with graphics. The source was taken photos of NASA and other open sources.
The idea of the author is to show that difficult-looking and beautiful scenes can be done fairly simply at the modern level of technology.
According to him , Twixtor and Maya software was used. Here, for example, is an illustration of the phased creation of the animation of the rotation of a hexagonal vortex on Saturn:
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And here is a screenshot of the result:

According to the
author , he continues to work on the project. It is worth waiting for new beautiful video from him.