Hi. I'm creating a poster and the opening dvd animations for the school I work at, for this year's play: Jack and the Beanstalk. I have been using bryce for several years now, but am still really not very skilled in it, as it took me three days now to get the clouds to look right. The poster I have in mind shows the giant's castle in the clouds with part of the beanstalk poking through at the top. The beanstalk runs the lenght of the poster with Jack's farm at the bottom of the poster. My question is: Is it easier to create this as one huge scene in Bryce, or, create the scene in sections and combine it in photoshop? If I do it in sections is there an easy way to make sure the perspective matches up with other parts of the picture? Most of the big objects, like the castle and the farm house and the stuff has been made in wings, with the exception of the beanstalk which will be made in bryce with the tree editor. As always I appreciate the advice you offer. Thank you very much for your time. Cheers. Pedrith :) P.S. I wish bryce could handle layers like photoshop. It make this and many other images I have in my head easier to make.

Matching perspective would be up to keeping your camera settings the same throughout every seperate bryce scene. Seperate sections in photoshop would make it easier to change things around as you will only need to rerender the changed section rather then the whole scene, though you would have to keep in mind that you can't have reflections of objects that are not in your scene, which is important for how you decide to divide your scene. If your bryce file doesn't get too complex it's probably easier to keep all in one image though. For the beanstalk you could also draw a spline in some modelling program and extrude it into a cilindrical shape. make a few curly bits for on the side of the beanstalk maybe and a few stylish leaves and then construct the beanstalk from those. It would get you a much more stylish and probably more obviously "beanstalk" look then the tree editor could ever do.

Rayraz is wise..........on the other hand...you could just plant some magic beans.........

How about doing the castle at the top with the beanstalk and set the camera position then save that file, call it J&B1. do the bottom section with the farm in it using the same camera position. Once you have done that then just merge both files together by going to file/merge and clicking on don't save when you get the pop asking you what you want to do. Don't worry you wont lose anything when you merge and click on don't save..I have done this in practise because i have seen it mentioned before :)

Thank you everybody. Once the image is finished I will show you what I created. Rayraz that is one sweet beanstalk picture. Bryster, I tried magic beeans and got nothing just like my money tree :( Pedrith

hehe thanx, I should add that the beanstalk pic was found in google and wasn't made by me ;-) but it sure is some inspiring reference material.

There's a beanstalk for sale at DAZ. Maybe it would come in handy :) http://www.daz3d.com/shop.php?op=itemdetails&item=3585