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I’m the person who committed that flower in Bryce with a little bit help from GIMP You can see the raw image and the step by step postpro here: http://dwsel.deviantart.com/art/Making-of-Soft-Morning-step-by-step-324750760
Thanks for warm response!

@ LordHD…  those pills looking scary real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  awesome render

dwsel_ - 05 September 2012 12:03 PM

I’m the person who committed that flower in Bryce with a little bit help from GIMP You can see the raw image and the step by step postpro here: http://dwsel.deviantart.com/art/Making-of-Soft-Morning-step-by-step-324750760
Thanks for warm response!

Congratulations, it is indeed excellent!  You win and Bryce wins - so we (the Brycers) all win!

Yes I was really pleased to see that happen, and it is a panel of judges, so no favouritism possible.

BTW David.  New PC on order 3.0gHz AMD quad core 8mb ram etc etc.

Just finished my second car part related image.
Again done entirely with Bryce 7 Pro apart from the text.
Loosely based on a clutch master cylinder.
I was going to connect a pipe from the fluid reservoir to one of the
connectors on the cylinder but I’m struggling to make a curvey rubber hose with Bryce
and didn’t want to use other apps for it, so I settled for fluid spill instead.

I didn’t know where to post this, I was going to put it in my first submission post but
saw this one instead. Hope you like it. As always I’m open to criticism or advice
on how to improve my images.

Thanks.

very cool models

Well a few pages back people were posting their favorite car renders and so I thought I’d add mine to the collection.

StuartB4 - 05 September 2012 06:44 PM

... but I’m struggling to make a curvey rubber hose with Bryce
and didn’t want to use other apps for it, so I settled for fluid spill instead.

Have you tried metaballs?

Wow, StuartB4 - 05 September 2012 06:44 PM, your Bryce models and the render are very fine indeed.  I’m amazed at the modelling that can be done with Bryce. I like to use Hexagon which allows more organic styles, but for engineering type work Bryce seems to do the job so well, in the hands of a skilled modelling like you.

Of the DAz products, for sheer clarity and beauty of final rendering (with the right settings as taught by David and Horo and co) , along with the ease of getting large scale landscapes as well as small objects, Bryce seems to be well ahead of the game for me. Reality / luxrender with DSudio4 is great too but I’ve only managed to use it with close scenes successfully and the render overhead with a complex scene seem large.

I’m learning Carrara and have not yet achieved the same quality of rendering as with Bryce -  but still have much to learn.

Here is a Bryce render of my own RedClay Rhino’s (modeled in Hexagon - based on an actual smoke-fired clay rhino I made in terracotta). I love the way the HDRI lighting and Bryce-tweeked textures make everything look so sharp and clean.

Sad Sadie part II

Sad sadie and Little Sad Doll made with wings3d…
Tree’s made with wings 3d…
grass and ivy from 3dplants.com

@ David…. I agree that render is awesome

@ StuartB4 Excellent modeling and perfect render ( I love the leaked oil detail )

@StuartB4…I doubt criticism and advice is something you won’t be getting here - not with a superb render like that.

@Lord…great car…looks like something out of MadMax

@Keryna…very nice models. I’m just getting into the whole model area, so looking for some other ‘ware to create them. Is Hexagon hard to use? Started in Carrara awhile back, but the problem is that while it is another superb ‘ware, if one gives it a break for a few days’ time, it’s hard to remember what does what again. One needs to devote time to it to get habitual with the buttons and options etc., of course, where with Bryce, it’s that little bit easier.

@@tlantis…I always want to get a closeup, do a flyover, and go beyond the trees in your sadie renders. Now that’s a real compliment

Jay

@ bigh….  Thanks, still learning.

@ LordHardDriven…..Back to the past. I saw a Delorean driving through Barkby in Leicestershire about 3 weeks ago.
Very nice image.

@ Horo

Have you tried metaballs?

I did try metaballs, I used them for the clip through the end of the pin
and the fluid spill. I did try using them for the pipe but wasn’t happy with the result.

@ Keryna…..Thanks for the kind comments. I did try Hexagon for a while but I need to learn a bit more.
Never tried HDRI so I will have to have a go at that too, seen some really good images using it.
Your image reminds me of the little wooden ornaments everyone seemed to have in the 70’s.
Nice models and love the colour.

@ @tlantis…..Thanks. Nice image, I tried stuff like that in the past but never got the results I wanted.
Just been looking at Wings3d, seems very strange to use. I used to like Truespace for modeling.

@ Jamahoney ....Thanks very much.

Jamahoney - 06 September 2012 03:58 AM

@Lord…great car…looks like something out of MadMax

I take it you’ve never seen any of the “Back To The Future” movies? If you have then don’t you recognize a Flux Capacitor when you see one?

@ Jamahone and @SuartB4 re hexagon ease of use:

I guess it is hard to begin with but the manual IS fairly good, and there are tons of Video tutorials out there on the internet (eg GeekAt Play has many great ones on modelling).  Tuts from other modeling systems can also be used as there are similar types of controls in most modelers.

I found that it took by brain a few months (working on and off) to rearrange itself to “see” the 3D models properly so that it became easier all of a sudden to kind of “get” how to create and adjust and maneuver your models. Once the brain was trained it really helped.  (Im hoping this training might help hold of old age brain decay for us as well as provide many years of fun!)

@ LordHardDriven   .. awesome render..brings back memories…..