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Bryce 7.1 Pro - Birds in Flight 2012by ~davidbrinnen

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Objects / Everyday Items

A remake of a scene [link] made in 2007 and rendered in Bryce 6 using many conventional radial lights.

This scene updated today, rendered with three TA optimised gel lights driven by a spherically mapped ( Spherical Mapper ) capture of the HDRI backdrop and one blocking gel to isolate the TA rendering from the IBL backdrop which drives the reflections. Bryce sun provides specular only to drive material specular response. In essence the same approach as taken in this video Bryce 20 minute scene lighting project - Using IBL with boost light and TA gels - by David Brinnen

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~OrigamiPieces Sep 6, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

The wings look really nice!

~davidbrinnen Sep 7, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you... the birds turned out much harder to model than I imagined. I could have done with more crumplyness I think.

~dwsel Sep 4, 2012 Digital Artist

This version has surely more quality in the shadows and more correct lighting model, but the previous one had more mood. I somehow preferred the previous version more, it may be because my eyes were caught by the specular reflections at the right side of the bird models and on the glasses and by the darker , more defined shadows.

~davidbrinnen Sep 4, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yes it was a difficult scene to update because the original scene was so close to what I was looking for anyway. Given the flexibility of the gel lights in TA, there are now a lot of ways to modify the lighting - or should I say - a lot of combinations... I'm not really on top of this yet. But I reckon that once I do get a feel for what controls what, I'd now be able to give some of the more serious render engines a run for their money in terms of quality - the only draw back is time... Bryce premium effects at 256 RPP is a bit sluggish.

~dwsel Sep 4, 2012 Digital Artist

Now the idea for the new tutorial to show how to make a beautiful glossy Stanford dragon TA desk lamp - that will render for several following hours

(A hint: dragon is made of glass + 5-10% diffuse and cast/recieve shadows off for speedup; TA, boost light, blurry transmissions and TIR are turned on; non TA light inside the dragon, shadows for this specific light off and include only the dragon). That's gonna look amazing!
I won't attempt such image though, because my hourglass-out-of-startip-primitive lamp will probably be rendering for next 8 hours

BTW, if you ever decide to switch for still life 3d works for another renderer than Bryce I wouldn't suggest starting from paid options. There are two options I'd suggest for the good start: Kerkythea (standalone renderer with GUI and material editor in which you can set up your scene from objects), LuxRender with the importer plugin from DAZ Studio or Blender. The free ones are almost equally worthy as the paid ones, for example Kerky is just minus technical support and network rendering. If you ever need some help with switch to them or some guide on using them or settings I can be help with these, you're welcome to catch me somewhere on the net

~davidbrinnen Sep 6, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you for your kind offer of help with switching renderers I will surely take you up on that if I do decide to move away from Bryce. Oh - yes, sorry, I've been painting someone's house in case you wondered why I've not answered sooner - if someone says to me, "hey I've got a job do you want it I will pay you" - that's me hooked - I'm totally shallow like that

In this way I have ended up digging storm tanks, fitting a wet room, tiling a floor and putting down 40 meters square of block paving - and so forth. Being self employed is a random way to living, but on its side it has variety. Not all jobs are totally delightful, I've fitted five toilets this year - pooh! I digress... sorry, this is by way of explaining, that while I would like to commit more time to learning about other render engines, I only really have time to commit to one at a time, and for the moment I will remain with Bryce because I enjoy using it - all be it not one of the most fancy renderers, being my hobby, the enjoyment factor wins out ahead of speed and cleverness.

~dwsel Sep 6, 2012 Digital Artist

Yup, work over the fun. And 'handyman' profession is nowadays way underestimated imho.

~davidbrinnen Sep 7, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Jack of all trades and master of none... as they say. Here work (and workers) are both thin on the ground, I have learned to do things at lot of things as a result of doing them - this with varying levels of success. But since no one else will even attempt some jobs, getting them done - even if circuitously - it better than them not getting done. Today, for example, with the help of the help desk I installed my first chip and pin credit card reading machine - it turned out not to be very difficult. Tomorrow I'll be mostly up some scaffolding painting... Variety huh?

~Litterboy Sep 3, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Great at the reflections in the glasses and the way you folded the paper.

~davidbrinnen Sep 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thank you!

It took me quite a while to make that bird model in Wings3D. Even still, they are too perfect, they could have done with more "crumple" but I'm no great shakes at modelling, I'm more interested in materials and lighting.

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