Storm

Rendered in Bryce5, gamma corrected in PSP7 and Lightning painted in PSP7 and imported into bryce and applied to a 2D object. Trees are a spikey terrain pokeing through the hill terrain. Material made for trees is semi transparent (slows the render down but make them look more treeish and less like a load of spikes) material for hills slope sensitive to give illusion of rocks on steep bits. Extra lighting used where lightning appears to be striking under volume cloud, but in actualality the lightining is about two inches from the camera and lit by another light behind the camera. Colours are not very realistic I know, but I thought they gave the whole things a sort of fantasy book cover feel.