Long ago there was once a simple animation tutorial for Bryce - it showed you how to animate the ocean by moving the camera.

I once used it as a starting point for a more complex animation - but have since lost that due to theft. (long story, don't ask)

What I want to do is to recreate the same sort of scene with additions, and I wondered if anyone knew of any tutorials to help me, or knew of the right methods to use - i.e. easiest to manage and quickest to get the desired result.

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I want a scene showing the ocean below to be moving, and thus looking like an ocean, plus the clouds in the sky above to be moving slowly, with a planet (or large moon) coming into view on the left, rising and leaving the view on the right.

While all that's going on I want to get a dragon appearing on the left and flying into the distance centre screen.

This is a dark-ish scene, or at least must look like a night time scene.  Sort of blue tones - moonlight etc.

I guess the lighting isn't essential, but that's what I can see in the vision in my head.

I need to know how to do this, I mean do I create the scene in Bryce first?
Or do I begin in Daz Studio with the dragon?
Can I do it in Bryce6.1 or (because I remember seeing someone having a problem with textures when trying to animate in Bryce6)
or should I do it in Bryce 5.5?

How do I get what I'm animating in Bryce (the scene) to fit with what I think I need to animate in D|S (the dragon)?

I think this will do the trick.

www.geocities.com/stevensanvito/ocean.htm

Yes, I was just about to post the link to this Ocean animation - which is the one I used to begin the animation I once made with the ocean moving, the sky moving - which is what this tut shows you - and to which I added the rising planet senario - in the animation I have now lost.

What I wanted to know is:
How to add the dragon part of the animation,
Do I do that part first? or the Bryce Scene? 

Help?

I would do at first the dragon-animation in Daz/Studio...export it to an empty Bryce-Scene...in Bryce set the camera to the right place and built the scene matching to that what you want to do. That's the way I would do it.

Allibaba

 
I agree, pose and animate the dragon first in DS and bring into Bryce to get the starting camera position right.  Build your scene using very basic textures and unanimated water and sky.  They can be changed later.         

As we all know rendering animation can take a long time, even in preview, so hide the objects that you are not working on.  Ex.  if you are working on water movement, hide the dragon.

Can't wait to see your final!!

Thanks - that's exactly what I wanted to know.

I am really disappointed with animation in DS.  Is it possible to animate in Poser and export that to DS and from there go to Bryce 6.1?

Yes it is possible. You just have to !!import!!

(in Studio-->file-->import-->browse to the poser-file and import) 

the poser-scene to Studio and then to Bryce.

Allibaba

Thanks, I appreciate it!