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Just FYI the Authors of the book were also involved in producing the official Bryce 4 manual, and the Real World book was designed to take up where the manual left of, basically. My manual was in Mint condition when I passed it on to someone else who had lost their copy somehow, but Real World is well thumbed and used frequently.
So that's why my thumb is sore.:cheese:
There's no better way
to beat the heat
than to jump into
an ice cold lake.
@JStryder: Cute image.
@JStryder - the poses are great!
Guy on the right is defintely going for the 'Bomb' or 'Cannon Ball'...always a ruiner of sandwiches (or fake-tan lotion applied to European pale skins) by the poolside ;) Great submission...winner, for sure.
Jay
Thank you for the comments. It's not all that great a render, but it did bring back nice childhood memories, which made it fun to work on. Any credit for the charming children goes to the original artist of course. Those are 3DU's Sadie and Sam for Genesis.
Had a great deal of difficulty with getting the lighting right so the figures didn't look too hard and stony. This meant soft shadows, IBL, TA, and slow rendering. So I compromised on a low resolution image. If I can find the time I'll submit on an improved higher resolution version.
Fantastic still lifes over on the main render thread! Somebody please do a hot glowing one, throw some ice or water on it, and enter it here!
It appears this thread has crawled to a stand still.
I know I am quite upset about that. :down:
If it makes you feel any better, this thread has been hogging my other PC's processor for the better part of 2 months now, and since there are still a few days left, I'm still trying to add details.
@Pam: It could be people have been having busy person lives. Or as Sean noted, still working on renders.
@Sean: You've really peaked my interest.
Or all imagination has evaporated.
I would love to join this competition, but I am afraid I am a bit busy in the moment.
@Horo: I resemble that more times than not. Especially after finishing a render that's taken some time.
Or all imagination has evaporated.
This applies to me too, that's why I'm concentrating on tutorials. lol ;)
Is there going to be a separate thread for final submissions, or should we post them to this WIP thread?
Post them here. I then copy and paste them into an anonymous voting thread, so my judges can't play favourites. LOL
The judges are actually the CV team, which includes the Mods as well. We are still CVs as well as being Mods.
Edited to add, that I don't vote and if we do have any tied results, which actually has been every challenge so far. then I invite a guest judge (or even 2 on one occasion) to break the tie. The main guest judge is himself, 'Im indoors or whatever you want to call him, who doesn't use 3d programs, but does like seeing the images.
Alright, here is my final render of "shady spot", a nice refreshing spot in the shade to beat the summer heat.
Join in the fun...
I haven't used Bryce much at all since I bought it several years ago..
Beat the Heat by getting your feet wet ;-)
@Sean: That turned out absolutely gorgeous. Nice job.
@Stezza: I have to chuckle at the atmosphere of that image. Well done.
But not too far into the water with those sharks. ;-)
Sean: your render is lovely nice work
Stezza: welcome what a neat idea!! I really like your man and the outhouse!!
Sean...that's stunning...great use of colour and light. As anyone has experienced whilst doing works with trees in them, it can get very confusing, overly-cluttered, overly greenie, however, in this case, great control, in liu with the reeds/grass etc.,, works very well together. I also like the detail on the fence-posts - it's those little details that make the whole sometimes.
Stezza...sharks...lol...humour in a work is always welcome.
Jay
So, has judging began, or are there more entries to come?
I am having a bit of a problem at the moment. Have a riot looming in another forum, and just haven't had a chance to transfer the renders to a judging thread yet. I will get round to it, honest I will.
Use that club! :cheese:
LOL there are times when I wish I could. Especially when you always get one or two who just won't see sense, or who argue for the sake of arguing
BTW. I think we may change the Challenge a bit, and actually make then longer each time, so instead of a monthly Challenge maybe have a seasonal one, so as this was the summer one the next one could be the Autumn (or Fall) Contest, and again last 2 months or so
No rush, I just noticed no one had posted in a couple of days. The idea of 2 month span sounds like a good idea.
My concern about having the challenges longer is that they do seem to run out of momentum.
Whereas the "Beginner's Render Challenge WIP" thread at the top of the Daz forum has people working on renders and getting useful advice for lighting, composition etc. which tends to keep the thread active, there isn't a lot of that happening down here in the Bryce forum.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work, but it would need to get more interactive otherwise there will be a flurry of people getting renders in and then a tail off with a barely active thread. And then after the closing date for entries, as always several people (cough cough Rashad) will apologise for not getting one done. :-)
I know. I apologise for not getting this one to the voting stage so far. It is the first time this has happened. I have been a bit tied up elsewhere on the forums.
Summer is always a quiet time for forums and challenges and such things.
I am really not quite certain where to go forward with this. I do prefer the monthly approach, but it does seem that the whole challenge idea is not really taking off as I hoped it would.
Would it be a good idea (and politically correct) to maybe advertise the challenge on Bryce5.com? or deviant art for those who are members at those two places. I see a lot of really good Brycing around the internet and yet our community here is relatively small.
Also, we get a lot of beginners posting questions and sometimes they then disappear. If they can be enticed into stopping around and joining in more it would be great. Posting on a particular forum is quite habitual and we need to get more people into the habit of posting here instead of where they hang out at the moment. :)
BTW: You have nothing to apologise for Chohole... You know we're not the type to sulk over a slight delay... we are Brycers, we are used to delays in development cycles, render times etc. :lol: