Are you like me, people don't understand why you sit for hours fiddling around trying to make images with Bryce? Do people stare at you blankly when you try to explain, and then feint bemused interest. My wifes the worst, I think she's jealous of my 3 year affair with bryce. She comes in and asks me to do something, 5 minutes later she comes back again and can't understand why the thing she asked me to do still hasn't been done yet. No amount of trying to explain that this texture needed tweaking, or I haven't quite finished modelling something will suffice. Still she was happy enough for me to take her to Venice when I finally made some cash out of Brycing. My mum, well if I tell you she has trouble working the TV at times how the hell is she supposed to understand my hobby. When I showed her some of my work, she was like "Mmmm very nice, how did you draw that and get it on the computer screen?" One thing though some people are very impressed by a default sky and sphere over shiny water, so why bother!

Trying to explain 3d on a 2d screen to a non computer user is a nightmare. I even had someone tilt a print to see around it when I said it was made in a 3d program. Now I just ask them if theyve seen Shrek or Nemo, and say, "Its like that". Rarely works.

I guess I am pretty lucky in as much as friends and family are supportive and quite often profess to be amazed at what I produce. My best friend is a photographer, but spent entire working her life in IT. She has heard of bryce, but didn't realise just what it could produce before. My younger son and his other half are both IT professionals, and avid gamers, so both understand and ask me to produce specific images. My little GD (5) is already using a pc and loves art type apps that she can use. She loves the images Grandma does for her, so hopefully a new brycer in a few years. My other half just shrugs his shoulders and gives up, he is quite used to late meals by now :-) He did have a go with bryce, and produced the normal beginner type images, then decided he would never have the patience to learn properly.

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with you Orbital, my wife is the worst, though when i told her about the Sales ive made from Marketplace, she cheered up. and now when i am lucky enough to get my art on other websites, she gets pleased for me to, possibly cos she can brag about it. my mates love the images and are always nagging me for more, they also think i must be really clever, so i dont tell them how easy it really is. but sometimes even i feel, that maybe i should get outside a bit more often, no.. wait, i've got an idea for an image....i'll just be 5 mins.

I've always been an artist since I was little, so family and friends understand not seeing me for days on end, whether in my studio or in front of a computer. My Mom did sculpture and stained glass, my Dad, woodcarving and steel sculpture, my middle sister paints in oils or gouache, my youngest sister is into music.

I like assemblage, acrylic, and pastel painting, watercolor and gouache painting, faux fx for furniture and walls, steel and cement sculpture. That all goes along with my texture and papermaking, Brycing, Vue-ing, and other assorted computer and realworld arts and crafts....(that would also include keepsake gift boxes, candle and soapmaking, potpourri and dreampillow creation)

My family don't really care, unless I forget to minimize Bryce before I leave the computer.

My mum says "That's nice dear" and shows all her friends and family, none of whom really appreciate it. My wife thinks I'm wonderful and wonders why I stick to Bryce and keeps checking the net and shouting out "What about 3ds Max?" and I reply "Once we've paid off the house." She thinks I should be selling stuff. But I have little confidence that anyone would want any of the pictures I've done. So I'll happily just keep churning them out for a portfolio that will never be used. (sigh) It's made worse by the fact that she actually sells quite a lot of her art. Not that I'm jealous, just lazy.

I've the great luck that my husband loves my pics and since I've done some technical renders for him he's absolutely fond of Bryce. Meanwhile he got used of the fact that I forget everything other around me when I'm busy with rendering. My mom is really funny. She's an excellent painter with oil and got absolutely no sense for technical things. You could tell her the stupid joke about the difference between RAM and ROM and she wouldn't know that something like this even exists. So she calls it perverse typing in some numbers for positioning an object, but she likes my pictures, too. And my friends ... some of them like it, some not but they all came to the conclusion that rendering must be a very difficult and complicated thing. Well, I leave them in their belief g.

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Well, my parents think it's nice as long as I'm not behind bryce past midnight too often. They won't give a **** if I've got a render to disk running for 4 days, if they feel like commanding me to turn my pc off at night, there's no way to avoid losing 4 days of rendering. My friends usually like my work, but people who know me less well are generally less impressed, except for the ones in my 3DStudioMax class 'cause they know how it's not always real easy to make a nice image. Girls seem to generally be more impressed then guys, though unlike most guys some girls just completely do not care at all so it's probably a good thing I'm don't like to show off :P My gf's liked it so far though. My grandparents like what I make also, especially when it's animated :) Generally, as long as my brycing means I'm not trying to use the TV my family's happy :P 'cause they're TV addicts who don't like my choise of programs lol

Yoro's a girl????? YLSED !! My lot think '...well at least it keeps him off the streets.." I've tried explaining it to all sorts of people, but most of the time I simply don't have the vocabulary. The best way I've come up with is this... 'You know those incubator boxes they put prem-babies in? The ones with holes in the sides for the nurse's hands? Well try to imagine that Bryce is a gigantic incubator box and instead of hands I use the mouse and k/board to move things around inside the box..... ...then when I've arranged everything where I want it, I take a photograph...' Even then I'm not sure people get it. They just have no soul...sigh

My wife's not real happy with 'that Poser stuff'..but then I don't think she knows the difference 'tween Bryce and Poser (her thing's geneology, and the grandkids' are only interested in the 'punch the monkey and win' games that get those wonderful ad-trackers glommed onto your PC, but what the hey..;) I did get a minor bit of interest with the Sci-fi magazine wanted to use one of my pics (fell through because I could never get Mr. Maya's permissions), but that's about it..;)

Well...for me it's this...while everyone else is enjoying the real world, I sit in front of a computer screen and agonize over long render times. While everyone else is ingrossed in stimilating conversation...I am ingrossed in quality zombie time staring at an import progress bar that moves soooooo slowly. When i try to show friends my gallery...they'd rather surf the 'Whats New' gallery and look at the nudity images. But what can I say...I live for the 12 viewings and 1 or 2 comments that each image I post struggles to get!

My son is the one who got me turned onto Bryce even going further in buying me Susan Kitchens book for a Christmas Present a couple Christmas's ago. He liked doing up graphics for his BBS many years ago, but now has turned to being an NT Specialist for a company in Calif. My hubby has dabbled in PhotoImpact and likes the program alot and uses it as much, but he doesn't have the patience or inclination to go any further into 3D. I show him some of my renders that I have produced in Bryce and Poser, but he is not all that interested. Dinner usually is on time in our house as I get hungry and cannot wait myself to eat. lol

For the longest time I felt alone in my excitement for CG. When you show people and they nod their heads..."mmm, that's nice". Sure my wife shows her appreciation for a piece well done, and that lasts for about 30 seconds or until the next unchecked "honey-do" comes into mind, which is about the same amount of time.(LOL) Now I'm a self employed contractor, I've saved us thousands of dollars in labor costs refurbing this old Colonial/Vic. The only thing I've got on my mind after a long day at work is the image I was working on the night before in the wee hours of the morn. I recently injured myself at work, and considering a career change. If my wifes gets the promotion were hoping for, I'll get a low pay hourly job and be going back to school for CG. (keepin my fingers crossed) Maybe then there will be a local yahoo to converse with about CG excitement.

Well, my friends don't really care about my bryce work and my mom thinks I'm becoming a hermit. Mom also thinks that I should be out more trying to get a date and stuff and spend less time on my writing (which is the current focus) and bryce (which will soon become my second current focus once my new imac arrives). Sure a date and a girlfriend would be nice but then so would painlessly importing poser/daz studio animations into bryce and getting Rochr like results.... :)

After about 4 years of CG now, my wife finally understands when I disappear into the computer room to work on the latest image. She knows a heck of a lot about this stuff because she is the only one that will listen to me nattering on about the latest "new thing" in CG for any length of time. She did say just the other day that she was impressed that I taught myself all this stuff. But usually I just get the old "That's a nice image, honey. Are you coming to bed now?" I get pretty much the same reaction from her family and mine, although her parents have told me to print some of the stuff so that they can show it off to their friends. I don't care though, I love doing it and will continue to do so for as long as I can. Besides, I love sitting in a dark room, staring at the little white line as it slooooowly makes its way down the screen. Lol!

LOL Pedrith, I want your mom! mine think's I'm too young for a
girlfriend :| and that while I'm 19 y/o!! lol Worst thing is,
currently, she's got it her way 'cause the girl I like turns out to
be gay >.

Well I guess I'm quite lucky 'cos my partner, ttops, is as mad about Brycing and all other 3D activities as I am. We have our computers on either side of a room and the back of our chairs hit when we move and if I want to tell him anything, or vice vera, we send emails. Perfect relationship I think. 8) My mother, who is a painter in watercolors, my brother, who's a pain in the neck, and his family, who are all lovely, like what I do. Even my older niece and nephew asked me for some prints of my work and stuck them on their walls. I also made an angel for my middle niece, in poster size, to hang over her bed to protect her. My greatest joy though is that my middle niece loves all things 3D. I bought her Bryce over a year ago and at first she only dabbled but now she's trying to also get me to give her my Poser 5 when I get the new v6. Also my brother has started playing with Bryce, the learning curve does not appeal to him but he can't allow tt and me to be the only creative 3D'ers in the family. 8) Catlin

I find that family, friends, colleagues will mostly give variations on "That's nice, dear," and some will even ask for a print to put on the wall, but the majority of them think the computer does it all. I suppose they have a point. I have had some comments in the vein of "Why don't you try some REAL art"? I.E. get a paintbrush. 8-(

Judy, just tell them that if the computer did it all we'd all be working at pixar ;)

Wow, people actually get "That's nice, dear" comments? I could have said that I can't remember that any of my friends or family have ever said anything like that... but my youngest Daughter was talking to me via MSN one day and when she asked what I was doing, I told her I had just posted an image of what I was working on - nowhere near finished, just posted for comments and help - and blow me down with a feather but she put a (rather nice) comment in the gallery! Your kids can still surprise you, even when they are grown up and about to have a baby of their own... amazing. But that's it, no comments from Mum or Husband - although I think Mum liked the oil painting I once did of my Father and eldest Daughter playing chess in the garden... But then it was a Christmas present so she couldn't help but say thanks. Maybe one day I will get good enough.... Fran

Funny, I thought about posting this question awhile ago... My wife thinks it's a waste of time, I should be out working in the garden or cleaning the house. She's also clueless about computers in general and has no concept about 3D. So it's kinda frustrating. Once in a while I get a chance to Bryce at work. First thing most people say is, "What kind of game is that?" Jeez.

But it IS a game - the best game there is! (ggg) Fran