A small studio with a very big subject.
StarBrains makes space and science videos for curious kids and the grown-ups around them.
Why scale
Numbers like "1.3 million Earths" don't mean much on their own. So we build the thing and show it to you: Jupiter hanging over a city, the Sun poured full of Earths, a zoom from a quark to the oldest light we can see.
Every video asks one question you could ask at dinner, and answers it with a picture you'll remember.
And all the way down.
DNA built from real Protein Data Bank structures, rendered here.
How it's made
- Rendered on our own machines
- Blender and Unreal Engine on a small farm of graphics cards, up to 4K. No stock footage and no generated space art.
- Built from real data
- NASA maps of Earth and the planets, star catalogues, galaxy surveys and molecule structures. Every video page lists its sources.
- Checked and labelled
- When we go past what science knows, like bubble universes, we say so on screen.
- Made to be watched by everyone
- Captions on every video and chapters on the long ones.
What's coming
Next up is Made of Stardust: where the atoms in your hand were made. After that, more big questions, more Shorts, and a few sillier experiments.