now that's neat.

got some volumetric lightrays for those caustics too?

Thx! No volumetrics yet, maybe soon, depends if I wanna sit long enough for them to render out LOL:-D

like the water! cool...

Exellent view, but without the shark it will be better, I thing. ;)

That's way cool!

Very nice underwater scene....  I like the Marlin slowly making his way center...

Very nice!

Beautiful, Clay!!

How are you doing your caustics??

Why is there no submersible??  Gotta have one of those so I can slavishly copy it.  :)

LOL Ricky:-P The caustics are just a light gel.

Well, they are really nifty.

Yer one of my heroes, ya know?

Think we'll every have another Bryce Camp??

Awwwe thx:-) I dunno, it would be fun for sure, specially since I'm on the west coast now in wahington, OMG what a mecca for a brycer to be in LOL!!!

The stone mat and caustics work really great together. Nice work.

Ha ... typical, everyone moves to the left coast just as I move inland.  My favorite people are always so far awaaaaaay.

Well, that underwater scene is truely killer.  Beautiful work as always.  I hope I can do another Bryce scene soon, but I'm mired in learning Rhino at the moment.

Very nice Clay.  I had a little play with underwater scenes myself some time back:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1079629

Maybe I'll have another go, when I've got the time.
I like the camera angle you've used there and the texture on the ground... seabed... whatever.  Nice.

Clay? Ricky? Bryce Camp? Is there a little romance in the air here? Do I hear the zing of Cupid's arrow?.......................................:biggrin:

Ummmm, Bryster, I'm old enough to be Clay's grandma.

However, the whole story (for anyone fool enough to be interested), is that my first real modeling in Bryce effort was to copy, as near to perfectly as I could, a submersible that Clay had rendered and which was published in the official Bryce manual.  I've used that copy in a couple of renders ... nowhere as good as Clay's, but I was proud of it.

So, segue a couple of months after I posted my renders.  I go to Bryce camp (for a week of intense Brycing and serious drinking with Doc Mojo, Scott Tucker, Susan Kitchens and the rest of the gang), and who is one of the first people I find myself deep in conversation that week??  Only the creator of my favorite submersible himself!!  I fairly gushed over the dear boy.  He will always be one of my heroes, because I completely got over my fear of doing large scenes by working on that one model.

I'm telling you, I held it together more effectively when I met Ray Bradbury (another of my heroes) than I did when I met Clay.  Must have been the shock of seeing that he was so very much younger than I.  Silly of me not to realize that sometimes great talent blooms early.

So, no ..... no romance.  I tend to be attracted to crochety old farts ... male versions of myself if you will.

Well, take two peps, the open air of a camp site, the long summer evenings, too much booze,  a mutual and healthy respect,  and who knows? Passion can bloom in the strangest of circumstances between the oddest of couples!

Maybe Clay likes grandmas...................................and maybe there was a bikeshed nearby!

Camp site??  Oh, I wouldn't call Bryce Camp "camping."   It's more like 30-40 people sitting in a dark room with computers going ... everyone working on Bryce renders .... while the Bryce gods lecture about terrains and procedural textures.

That goes on from about 8am till maybe 5 or 6,  then people go out and get spiffed, and then frequently go back into the lab for more rendering ... till maybe 1 or 2 in the morning ... then it all starts over again the next morning.

By the end of the first day, you find yourself dreaming in wireframe ... by the end of your last day you start having waking visions of wireframe ... and what isn't waking wireframe you're trying to figure out how "they" got the texture to be so natural.

The last night is always a party.  No bike sheds that I know of .... and then you go home.  Back into the boring real world, where very few people understand how passionate people can be about a program.

I wish that I could figure out a way to host a Bryce Camp here in the Hill Country, now that Corel is no longer choking the life out of Bryce.

Wot? No Tents? No suspect comfort stations? No dodgy cooking? No bears? No flies? Sounds like juck to me..............A dingy room in the middle of a building.....where's the romance in that?

It was a very pretty room that took up most of the building.  I can't remember what the last place was called .... something like the "Southwest Art Center" or something like that, in Sedona, Arizona.  Bryce Camp before that was in Denver, Colorado (I don't know if Clay went to that one or not).  The Denver one was in a suspect part of downtown Denver ... a nice building, but not a nice neighborhood. 

But, no flies, no suspect comfort stations .... lots of really good restaurants, fairly nice hotels, and more Bryce than most people could handle.  It was nice.

"and more Bryce than most people could handle."

......... long silence while a vision of heaven floats before my eyes...

Come to think of it, it was heaven.  Imagine being in a room where, if you have a question about the DTE, you can just grab Susan Kitchens and ask her ... or better yet, ask her to show you.

Talk about instant gratification.

I really would like to see Bryce Camp get started up again.  It was just such a killer experience.  I learned so much .... it was one "ah ha!!" moment after another.

Be nice if they held one in the UK...

Would it ever.  What a great excuse to go there again.

Okay.... now who do I have to ask to organise it for me?  Persuade Susan Kitchens to take a break in the UK.... etc

ggg

Oh AS!!!  Cooeee!

ROFLMAO!

Top notch underwater scene.