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Bryce Worlds .::
What
is this about?
It's
simple.
About
two years ago, I bought a software package for 3D design and
rendering. This means that I could do stuff like you see in
movies such as Toy Story or A Bug's Life. Of
course, their software packages are much much much more expensive
and much much much more sophisitcated. But Bryce is a great
great great package.
I
love Bryce.
Bryce
is easy to learn and easy to use. But it is extremely powerful
as well. It was originally intended to make 3D pictures of
landscapes - beautiful landscapes. It was also programmed
to be easy to use and intuitive for the user to figure out
how to do things. Most 3D software packages are very complicated
to learn and require a lot of work to do some simple things.
This isn't a bad thing - it just doesn't fit very well with
hobbyists who don't sit at a machine producing 3D pictures
all day long.
Bryce
has a huge following and is made by Metacreations
software. They are the same people that make the KPT filters,
Poser, and many other kinds of wonderful graphical tools.
Anyway,
I fell in love with it. I started playing around with it and
making simple scenes with preset textures and shapes. For
a while, this amused me immensely. But after a few pictures,
I wanted more. So I decided to try modeling in 3D. This means
that you basically start with a primitive shape, like a cube
or sphere, and you stretch it and model it (much like a lump
of clay) until you create a wireframe representation of a
3D object. After you do this, you can import it into Bryce,
apply a texture, set the lights and the camera, and take a
"picture" of the object in the scene. It all sounds
very complicated if you've never done it before, but I assure
you that it isn't. It is *very* easy. The true geniuses of
these pictures are the coders that make this kind of software
possible.
Anyway,
you shouldn't be afraid to try it out if you can. :)
I
know of people from 12 - 75 years old who do this as a hobby.
Some of their artwork is stunning.
Some
people ask me what softwares I use to create my pictures.
Well, of course I use Bryce. But, to model with, I invariably
use Nendo. Nendo is created by Winged
Edge Technologies. It's about $100, and incredible.
It is so easy to learn. You can learn everything about it
in a simple 2 hour tutorial that they give you where you learn
to make a penguin. At the end of the lesson, you not only
know how to model very complex objects in 3D, but you have
a great and cool and fun penguin model to use as well. :)
I
also sometimes use Photoshop to touch up some pictures post-rendering.
It depends what I want.
I
hope you enjoy these galleries. :) Check out the Traveling
Uncle Nat galleries as well. Those are 3D Bryce images
as well, but they are part of an ongoing story and travel
that I update as often as my regular Bryce images. :)
-
Traveling Uncle Nat. :)
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