Forum: Bryce


Subject: Feb/March 2007 Challenge "Kiss My Glass" - Vote Here!!!!

AgentSmith opened this issue on Mar 30, 2007 · 81 posts


SavantNoir posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 5:05 PM

I refrain from voting, being a contestant...BUT if I were to vote it would be with much ambivalency.  When ONLY considering the quality of glass, Drawbridge, Death at Midnight, Electroglyph, ranachronos, seiwert, ICM, and Agent_Smith did incredible jobs.  Also, reflexexperssion did an excellent job in his composition and premium render, but unfortuantely, I think the blurred transmissions is not what the "glass" contest was necessarily all about, so he did not get the recognition his excellent composition would otherwise deserve.

If I were to vote on a Bryce competition, then I would have to rule most of the above out, and consider Thandaluz, lemonjim, and others that made their entries entirely in Bryce.  I suppose this perspective is probably an often-debated one.  A person could import a picture on a 2-d plane, click render, and post it as a Bryce peice.  Is it?  One of my all time favorite Bryce artists is Rohi, and he uses a ton of programs to accomplish his fantastic art.  In this case, "art" is the objective, and the plethora of tools on how to accomplish that objective are vast, and those that master them are owed great respect for their accomplishments.  In the case of a Bryce contest, my thought was..."do the best you can with Bryce" as the primary objective.

Great job everyone!