Bryce I

LVS Course for Bryce 5.5
presented by Britt Mc Cary November, 2007
Submitted by Joanne Johnson

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 3

I really had fun with Week 3! This cleared for me some of the things I had never quite figured out about Bryce before...particulary the Terrain Editor! Wow, I love that and I see great possibilities for creating original content for my Bryce scenes.

If I were to choose the most important thing I learned, something I really needed to know, it is the power to disable the sun! I love to try to do indoor, lighted scenes and could never quite figure out which sky to use. Even the black and gray backdrops still left lighting that just was spoiling whatever lighting I wanted to attempt. That simple thing is huge to me!

Here are some of my results. I do not really enjoy creating water scenes, mountains etc. I do love to try to create indoors, rooms, caves and so on. So, these kinds of ideas are what I have worked at this week.

I have, since the beginning of the course, upgraded to Bryce 6.1 and love the difference!

I found the skull idea in the Terrain presets so intriguing, once I knew I could use it as a wall hanging! Used the Boolean operation learned in Week 2 to create the hole in the cave floor. Once I learned about the Terrain editor, I used it to create the stalactites. Notice in the pot reflections, I had not quite yet grasped the understanding of disabling the sun.

Thanks for widening my view of terrains, priceless to me.

The next images are variations on a theme, the theme being seasonal, Christmas! It is obvious that I am in desperate need to learn about proper lighting, but I just aimed for something that gave me a good feeling about the scene (which is not usually proper lighting!). Here is the Christmas scene: terrains used to create wall hanging (originally intended to be ribbon, but...) Another edited terrain became a ramp for the toy cars. Props are the outdoor stairway, tree from Tree lab editing(Norway Spruce) which I decorated with sparkly lights in Photoshop using the star brush set to screen mode and the layer itself in screen mode. The trike, wooden doll are from some objects I have from TruSpace. Notice the rectangular 'candle' on the side table lighted from the light I placed inside it and textured with a painting I had done in Painter.

Next, a cropping from the above image with some filtering and blending in Photoshop, followed by a treatment in Black in White in Photoshop CS3.

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