As it says - How many hours each week do you spend doing 3d or 3d related sort of stuff, be it bryce, or wings or poser or whatever? Just curious what the brycers average. I'm down to about 4-5 hours per week of doing 3d stuff (real life things have been busy the last month).

Bottom line minimum 25, up to ~40. Of course I am trying to learn all the awsome things I found HERE. And Amapi, And Carrara, and others as I find time. Mike

Flak, When I'm feeling down about stuff or have a lot going on less than 10. but when I'm feeling good about everything and the everyday distractions are less I can get up to 30 or more - not including any internet time which might or might not include learning about 3d. There was a time when I spent up to a 100 hours a week coding graphics stuff for c c++ but that was a long time ago - before Bryce, Carrara Wings, Poser etc. I'm still trying to figure out how to do all of it right but I guess the point is to keep at it even just a little...

Huh. I just spent an hour modelling in Rhino. And that's not counting a couple of hours I've already spent setting and fiddling with stuff in Bryce on another thing. Guess it can add up to 20-30 hours per week or even more. Plus, as bikermouse says, hanging around here. But then, it can be a lot less, when I don't feel like doing anything.

Well.... when I am busy and working tons of overtime I only get about 5 to 10 hours a week in doing 3D related stuff.... However, when I have free time I can get up in the neighborhood of around 45 to 60 hours of time in working with 3D related things. Kind of depends on my schedual. Presidential election isn't till November, but the politicians are already starting to mail their stuff out. So I am in for a busy year..... a lot less time for 3D work.

About 40 plus hrs a week.Mostly because I am still home with a broken ankle.Still not learning as much as I would like to.It includes doing my web pages too though.

I'm sure I spend two or three hours a day on Rhino, and as many as five in Bryce itself. Some Amorphium and Poser, and maybe an hor or two a week in Lightwave. I spend nearly as much time in Photoshop as Bryce, editing pictures of my ridiculous male supermodel house-ninjas...

45 hours/week, which defintely now includes MP testing. Usually, over 7 days a week, unless I'm away from home. AS

You just had to ask didn't you? :o) Normally, I'd say at least 15-20 for me, but if things are busy less than 10. If I've got time (or procrastinate and make time or need the 'therapy' of it) I'm sure it's 30+. Part of it for me is still the learning factor. I may spend an hour tweaking a material or 2-3 hours modeling something where those may take others a fraction of that time. The good thing is I'm getting better so some things don't take me as long; the bad thing is that now that I've gotten those things down, I'm trying to learn even harder things. But hey, at least my mind's active! :o)

Never enough time...Around 20-30 hours more when I need too...

when I have an idea for a model or an image, I can spend like 30-40 hours a week, usually on saturdays I spend a few hours messing around. but every once and a while I will go like 5 or 6 days without touching Bryce.....dont ask how:)

anywhere from 10-25...depending on how busy it is at work..usually from 3-6, and then lots more on the weekend..;)

Some weeks 30-40, and when I'm not feeling inspired or when I'm really busy with work and other stuff ... 0-2.

Most always between, 80 to 120 hours, with my store, the site, texturing, modeling, challenges, getting photos for textures, and client work....

You win. ;o) AS

Zhann's weeks last longer than the 168 hours the rest of us have ;)

Was it a contest? I really like doing what I do, and I make some extra cash, so hubby's ok with it. I also have two Aspen exhibitions coming up, I'm doing assemblages for those too, a break from the computer....:)

I don't sleep much, especially when I get a flash of creativity, longest was 4 days straight no sleep, although I know that will end in a massive migraine

4 days straight!!! Salutes the Zhann Now, for the novice layman, what's an "assemblage"?

An Assemblage; n. sculptural technique of composing into a unified whole, a group of unrelated, and often fragmentary, or discarded objects...most go for around $800 depending on size, largest one I did was 3'x 3'...interior designers buy most of them, if you check my stuff in the mixed media gallery, those are assemblages...

48-52 hours.

Ah, ok Zhann. Thought it was something constructed but wasn't sure whether it was some of the those welded together pieces I remember you mentioning at one time or another.

Once spent nearly the same amt as Zhann for a month when I was commissioned to do 23 images..I took my laptop to a coffee shop to work as I was crying since I saw no one but my laptop..and I didn't know about renderosity. Normally..bout 7-8 hrs a day now.. but since dad got sick, it's been less since me been so stressed out...I hit the sack easily, or I get out to a pub, get slightly sizzled..and then come home too tipsy to bryce (and that's where keyboard nitemares began...) If creativity hits..then damn the world...

How many hours per week do you spend doing 3d (or related stuff)? Way too d**n many.

With the new jobb...2-3 hrs. Before that 20-30. Ugh! I'm frikken jones'n.

Never counted but I think way too much, I get worried about it sometimes. I wish there was some kind of a diet pill to keep me away from the computer.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeh I thought I did a lot till I saw Zhanns post!! Probably around 80-90 but I do have 4 sites and I'm trying to make a living out of this. But at least I'm doing something I enjoy :-)

Aye, Gillbrooks, we all are going to make livings out of this. Many people I know make livings out of doing far less than Bryce work. Perhaps we should focus on bringing each other work, and bigger, more massive projects... For example, if you took the top 40 Bryce artists on this site alone, and put them in the same room with a steady paycheck, do you know what you'd have? A goddamn cinematic masterpiece. Let your Dreams awake. Truth is, none of use spend our time efficiently enough when it comes to Bryce. That's the nature of experimentation... We're always wanting to do MORE, instead of finishing a project at hand. There's a point where perfectionism demolishes functionality. Bryce just happens to be the kind of software that leaves it up to the USER to decide this, instead of the program!

Usually try to get 3 or 4 hours in on week nights and maybe twice that on weekends but when I'm between contracts I can spend most of my day at work 3Ding. Best; Dan

How many hours are there in a week?

168..... Not nearly as much time as I would like. These days I let Bryce render while I'm doing something unrelated. :-(

I'd say about 2 hrs a night, plus most of Saturday. Perhaps we should have a support group, like they do with other addictions. " My name is Joe, and I am a Bryceaholic"

assemblages -back in the 70's, they called it 'found art'..;) hey, for $800..it sounds fairly lucrative..;)

Not counting the render time, I would say approx. 15 to 25 hrs, unless I have some photoshoots on the slate.

For me, about 10-12 hours per week. That's pretty much the maximum that my day time job and my wife allow me. I would like to spend more, but then again, my day time job and my wife are fairly addictive, too ;-)

I guess it must be around 60-80 hours a week, or if I'm feeling creative forget about sleep. 8) I recently set up another computer that is solely for rendering which frees up my main machine to do the preparity work on. It's a great set up and it also means I can play games whilst still rendering Bryce. 8) Catlin

About 40-50hrs a week split between Bryce, Wings3D, Carrara, Cinema4D, and any other 3D apps I'm currently trying to master. Thats not figuring in how many hours I spend with Painter and PS, and other 2D apps. I do know I love every minute I spend on it though! lol

Anywhere from 20 to 50 hours. Working on a big project at the moment, so my time is now like up to 60. LOL!

I don't keep track. (It's what time?) LOL... But when I'm not doing my school work, sleeping, or watching TV. (Life? What's that?) Might be a bit less in the warmer months, as the bicycle starts wanting attention. Didn't put eating down, because I'm pretty good at managing a tray while web browsing or watching a render "bake".

Err... about a couple of hours a week at the moment.