I've been thinking... I really want to render a small clip... a 1 minute thing, let's say. Could we have a tiny contest out of it? Not that I care for the glory of it, but the competition drives me to work. I want to render something sci-fi, small clip of a story perhaps. I know that Bryce sucks at animation, but I would still like to try it out, learn a bit more about it. what say you... something like 240x320 or whatever, 1 minute long, love you long time sort of thing? drac

You mean a 1 minute story...or that we string our one minute stories into one?

I'm sorry. I've tried Bryce animation and I really don't like it. It takes too long to render and the results aren't up to it. Josselin

Drac, Im very up to that... I love doing Animations with Bryce because its pretty amazing what you can do. Anyways, yeah I vote for it :)

Other than the render time and the fact that I cannot import Poser animations I love Bryce for animating. I think an animating challenge is cool, but I have nowhere to upload my animations to. My webspace won't allow it.

I did a 30sec movie in Imagine once.....took me 6 months....

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I made a one minute character animation once in one day (excluding rendering). How can a 30 sec movie take 6 months. Must have been really good quality. Cool soundtrack Max! That guitar is really awesome. But what's the exact challenge? Do we just make any one-minute animation? or does it need to be an actual story? And when's the deadline?

I'm slowly learning Bryce animation and this sounds pretty neat!

groingrinder, you can import poser animations into bryce as far as I know

Bryce sucks for animation, Draculaz? (grins) Go back to Bryce 2, before it did ANY animation. Then go back to Bryce 5. You will behold the absolute and utter truth and glory of the new Bryces! The ONLY thing it doesn't do well is animate characters, and that's why they made Poser in the first place! Too bad Metacreations went out the way they did, those two could have been beautiful together. And as for everyone whining about render times? Two words : BRYCE LIGHTNING!

But, aside from MY whining, I'd love to take part in an animation contest! Who's hosting, though? Agent Smith? (grins)

hmm... as far as hosting goes I've got 5 gigs of bandwith a month. I'd be willing to host up to 5 people on my site. but there's other places where you can put it, plenty of free webspace that offers 'unlimited' bandwith. drac

The ONLY thing it doesn't do well is animate characters It animates characters just as good or bad as other models. As long as the character is animatable. I'll prove it for you as soon as I've got my showreel online.

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rj, i don't think it's in the manual, it's actually exporting poser animations into bryce... o_0 i think. i never tried it. drac ps: let's make it scifi?

okay so who does know how to do it, i thought it was only something on the 'Brycetech' gag for APril.

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15 frames/sec times 60 sec = 900 frames times X hours per frame. You'd have to keep the frames fairly simple things like AA and volumetrics completely off in order to get X to a value of minutes rather than hours. The challenge would be to get something of acceptable quality in a reasonable amount of time. I was playing around with waterfalls last year and finally gave up because of the time involved, but bryce does ok at animation if you have the computer time to spare. Rayraz, If you were to group each body part seperately, Bryce has some potential with animating bodies using parenting(Agent Smith provided a link to a parenting tut a few days ago) ... I've tried the Natural pose demo it seems like the best bet. Although I'm tempted I don't really think it's practical for me at this point to do animation. - TJ (Time it's all we really have - all we really own.)

thanks Aldaron, that was quite useful, logical when u think about it, thnaks again. now are we all making a movie ? how about some one posts a plot, we all pick a scene each, then see if they go together. Anyone used to go to www.spacebattles.com ? i used to really enjoy that stuff.

yep spacebattles.com is the reason I got into this in the first place when I saw that what I've been wanting to do for years is finally affordable without having to shell out $1000's of dollars. :)

Can we do post work in after effects or is this strickley bryce only? Can I use poser for this contest as well?

Oops, I forgot to add quotes to the: "The ONLY thing it doesn't do well is animate characters" I meant to disagree with it. "15 frames/sec times 60 sec = 900 frames times X hours per frame" I once rendered a 96 sec animation at an 800x600 res and 25fps on a 300MHz system in 625 hours. (almost a month)

there's a program called natural pose, this allows u too import animated motions from poser into bryce and its works quiet well! :)