Idea for the shot:

So, thinking about that shot, need some asteroids, debris, a broken ship, more debris, a salvage ship, an astronaut with a spot light,  and something that tells what happened to the derelict

Elements needed:  Debris, asteroids, broken ship, salvage ship, astronaut

Tutorials used:

Make the ship

Inspiration

Looks great, great colors, composition, and overall anime feel. Inspirational.

 Inspiration

Beginner

Intermediate

 Time lapse where he is able to build the droid from a blueprint image.  He textures the droid also. 

Inspiration

ArtStation - Ansel Hsiao This guy is an excellent modeler.  His Spaceships are movie quality.

Get the models

Sketchfab

TurboSquid

Blendswap

cgtrader (has the best, most detailed models.)

Inspiration

This is one of the best Star wars shorts I've seen in terms of quality.  His laser blasts are excellent, (Has a better glow and blast object than the below videos) and the shows what the Unreal Quixel Mega scans can do.  He could've used Iclone7 to make his character, but used a Human Generator which ;also makes shape keys for facial poses. Just fantastic.