Reply To: blender volumetric lighting

Blender is awesome, but you have to polish your work with other software. There is a lot of software out there to do post processing. I used ‘Hitfilm’.  ‘Hitfilm Express’ is free. Install ‘Hitfilm’ on your machine, open your rendered .png image with it and add a flare effect. (That’s all I did)

Image 1 is the rendered result of your file as is. I just made the background (World) black. Nice job btw. You should make a tutorial on how to make stuf like this with Blender.

Image 2 is post processed with ‘Hitfilm’. Added a flare effect and some blur.

There is a flare and blur node in the compositor of Blender you might be able to make a similar result. But the  compositor of Blender still is very limited compared to other software. If you use volumetric lighting  you will have to wait hours for your work to render.

Blender is just one tool in your toolbox. There is a lot more out there u can use.