Attached Link: Sanctuary - Bryce 5 image created from ClydeSight Tutorials

I thought you might be interested in viewing an image created as a desktop download for a Web site about a music album. The image is called "Sanctuary" and uses the techniques described in two ClydeSight Bryce 5 tutorials: the candle from "Shadow Magic" and atmospheric lighting effects from "Bryce 5 Lighting FX". Additionally it uses a photo mat of the actual Forestdale Woodland to create an outdoor scene and reduce (significantly) rendering times. The photo was brought into Bryce 5 at low res (72dpi) to make it blend better with the 3-D image when rendered. The image is on the music album Web site, and is also in my gallery here at Renderosity. If you click on the link, you can see the image and also hear a sample selection from the album. (Makes a great gift too!)

Enjoy!

I really like it! Cool! Really a peaceful image to have on a desktop.

That was created in Bryce? Looks completly amazing.

Hi Again, Thanks for the encouraging comments! The image was created entirely in Bryce 5, except, of course, for the type, which was overlaid on the render in Photoshop. The "outdoors" is an image. I tried making that part of the scene using Bryce 5 objects but it didn't look as good and took forever to render-- the photo was an easy "cheat". Bryce is a cool program-- I love working with it! I find that I start something in Bryce and think "what if I do this?" and so on and when I next look at the clock, hours have flown by. Does that happen to you? In the upper left side of the image there is a candle in a niche. Making a niche in Bryce 5 is very easy. I am thinking of doing a quick tutorial on it. Do you think you'd all be interetsed in such a tutorial? Thanks for the kind words and thanks to those who posted kind words in my gallery.

do the candle tut..plz!!!

Don'tcha just love the smell of booleans in the morning!

That's weather stripping. When you close the doors, they rest on top of the strip. Are you buying that? How about-- it's a track for the optional sliding screen door that Bryce Depot has on special order for me? Is that more to your liking? Ummm- let's see. The house shifted and the marble floor conveninetly cracked at the doorway? Black Painter's tape? The architect is an idiot and made the outer marble deck higher than the floor so the rain will pour into the house because he has a lot of stock in a local mop company? Actually, it's a boolean error on my part. There is a very thin cut-out for the outer cube that makes up the rest of the room (it's too complicated to explain why I had to do it this way) and it is sticking through the floor because I forgot to make the floor a Boolean NEUTRAL and it is grouped to the outer cube (I forget why). One has to watch those boolean values!

:-) Actually, you can very easily remove it in postwork. Simple cloning will suffice.

Compared to the scale of the doors and the chair, wherever that stairway leads to seems to be a bit cramped. Other than that, it looks great.

Good point! Uhh, the stairs are for Hobbits. Does that work? Thanks for the pointer about scale.

Good point! Uhh, the stairs are for Hobbits. Does that work? Thanks for the pointer about scale.