Dear David, Your post was very inspiring and this is my 15 minutes solution to your theme. I've used a different approach (in Bryce 4, that I prefer to Bryce 5.5). The trees, the roots and the grass on the bottom of the trees are made with the terrain editor, with appropriate textures (I've used also one of the Bryce 'grass' defalut textures that you have used on your artwork). The stones are standard stones generated by Bryce with appropriate texture deafalut Bryce texture. The sky is one of the default skyes named "False Down", with Haze at 99 Fog at 3 26 and Sun Control at Azimuth 276,7 Altitude -9. The spotlight on the sword is a Cylinder Light with value 52 and 29. It is very near to the sword. The sword came from Renderosity Free Stuff: it is for Bryce and it is named 'Celtic Sword' by tonylynch. I've retextured it to add realism on the object. The volumetric light is fake. It is made in Photoshop using the Renderosity Bryce tutorial named 'Short cut atmospherics for Bryce' by orbital (see page 7-8-9). With Potoshop I've add also some glare just to add atmospere. All the operations take me around 15/20 minutes, besides the Bryce reder time. The original render is 864x610 in "AntiAliasing Fine Art" mode and take me no more than 10 minutes. This is the final result :)

BTW: writing the description of my procedures take me more time than do the art... ;) Message edited on: 03/24/2006 17:37