bryce

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I feel out of place here since I was reading the guide lines for sending in wallpaper/windowblinds etc etc. One thing struck me as somewhat odd, when it comes to wallpaper you won't consider wallpapers using bryce unless it doesn't look like bryce. I'm not much on three d programs but what is the deal with bryce and someone answer this technically as opposed to artistically. What do they have against bryce......is it a poor program??
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
they do take Bryce. Its just how many ways can a novice make globs and swirlies look? How many different ways can you bend a tube? In the hands of a pro Bryce is a great tool.



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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In the hands of a pro Bryce is a great tool.


for a example go to digitalblasphemy.com. he uses alot of bryce for his art.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The 'technical' answer to your question is that a program or system which 'assists' the artist in the creation of a work through point and click then 'generate' will imbue the 'newbie' with a 'wow-factor', falsely imagining that the result is 'kewl, brilliant and has never been done before'.

Unfortunately that is very definitely NOT the case, as everyone/anyone messing with the proggy a first time will have created these 'default' images...be they palm-treed islands or balloon sausage-animals and chrome spheres floating over water.

The 'ideal' is to treat ANY graphic proggy...be it Bryce, or Photoshop, or whatever as 'JUST a tool' to generate/devise a work of your creation and not its creation.

The same issue applies to filters or plugins......deftly used, they can be a boon, ineptly overused they are detracting....

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Adam, Bryce is a great program when used to its full capacity.
A design made in bryce is better when you use the program to create the design rather than letting the program create it for you.
Novice users of the program will use the preset shapes, skies and textures that come with the program and they usually never go on to experiment beyond that, and the end result is usually a repetition of the same scenery and the same metalic orbs and shapes floating on top of a water plane.
Once you start to experiment beyond the preset shapes and you actually start to model images via terrain editor or alpha planes, and manipulating the textures to create your own, then you will experience the full effect of the program.
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Well Jafo got a jump ahead of me >

So in conclussion..... Yeah, what Jafo said
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Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
2 by ~Legolas - 9/22/2003 5:29:18 PM In the hands of a pro Bryce is a great tool. for a example go to digitalblasphemy.com. he uses alot of bryce for his art.


Kona...Bliss doesn't really use Bryce anymore. At least not much of his work over the last year or so.

He uses Vue d'Esprit, Lightwave and WorldBuilder
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
my apoligies. i should have said some of his greatest works were done with bryce. BTW does he ever come here?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A lot of his works have been submitted here......by twits who think they will get away with it....
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Especially the neon blue mushroom one....they love the mushrooms...they re-color the mushrooms, they distort the mushrooms, they have a story for the mushrooms....they love the mushrooms.....
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for the replies to my question about regarding the use of bryce. I think I will attempt to recreate mushrooms. see ya