Makes me think of a few conversations with non-Brycing friends of mine..."So you just run the program and it makes the pictures for you?" ME: No, you know I'm an artist, you've known me since Elementary School, Bryce is just one of several programs I use to create digital artwork with, it's just instead of a brush I use programs to create the art with. Digital art is like model-making, photography, sculpture, brushwork all rolled into one. And the room doesn't fill up with canvases. "So...you just point the virtual camera at something and push the button?" Yeah, sure, whatever. "I think the pictures you make that way are cool." Thanks. It really isn't about the tool, it's about the artist. Bryce just happens to be one of my very favorite tools. It does deserve a little more respect. (Poser gets dissed in the letters columns of 3D World Mag, as well as Bryce. Not in the articles in the magazine though, as a rule. The editors of the magazine know that most of their readers are likely to be users of Bryce, Vue, Poser, etc., not high-end programs like Maya. But since Maya and others are some of their regular advertisers, and the articles are written by some very High-end artists, they do dwell on those programs in the tutorials. But they do a good job of printing mainly tuts that can be applied by the reader to just about any comparable program. I've applied the essence of tutorials to Bryce many times with...IMHO...good results.) Tjohn

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy