original thread LINK........... with more details by brholte

Feel free to post your WIPs in this thread.
(please keep image size to 800x600 and under 200kb)

Here is the Theme:

Theme:   " BRYCE - Architecture"

Architecture and cityscapes/skylines. This could be a skyline/cityscape, or maybe the inside of a building or church. Maybe even a complex piece of machinery.

Basic Composition:

...all architecture is created by the artist within Bryce using any building tools that come with Bryce whether it be primitives, terrains, trees, 2d surface, etc. etc.

...although I would rather not see photographs of buildings applied to 2d surfaces to be used for entire buildings, as long as your main focus is modeled entirely with Bryce, the technique you use for the rest of the image is up to you.

Imports:

As far as imports go….. Again, as long as the main focus of your image (architecture) is modeled with only Bryce, feel free to use anything else for your image.

Postwork:

Post work should be used tastefully. The over all theme here is architecture and cityscapes, so feel free to use post work for color enhancements, DOF, or creating textures. 

As I've just finished two cityscapes and already posted them in my gallery..I'm kinda bored of the theme for a bit.

I'm always out of step with the world.

I had a few ideas.... first it was going to be the Potala palce in Tibet, then it was going to be Tower bridge... then Big Ben LOL... But I sort of went back to the ori´ginal idea, but this time a Buddhist monastery perched on the side of a mountain. Here is the work in progress... two parts of the monastery.

Nice feel to those models dhama - looking forward to more, recently finished a mountain temple myself, had a heck of a job getting it positioned of the terrain, so really looking forward to seeing your solution..

I tried a little setup to see how I would approach it, and made the mountain first, but I think the solution has to be the monastery fiirst so that I can get the placement right, and then build a mountain around  it in smaller pieces. I did a similar thing with my tree roots on the rocks on the side of a mountain. I started with the roots and gradualy added rocks till it looked like the roots were wrapped around them.  Just a case of getting to the root of the problem eh? :laugh:

Looking good so far, you seem to have a handle on it already.

@ rj001:   what painting is this from.... ?  

oops

I just saw it in another thread...  Hans Holbein.

Way to go, RJ ! Good luck to you.....and all the other entrants.

Phew! Fast work!

(Orders 10 yards of red velvet for RJ's robes...)

Amazing work....

wow,  looks like Rj needs a WIP thread of his own!! 

lol,  jk. 

looks good bro.  You've really started early with a lot of heart and soul in that one.  I'm gonna get started on mine on Tuesday.  I'm still in the drawing stages.

I'm gonna suggest that B7 gets an applause button.

As i am not doing the figures i had to make up the return edge, which i am assuming is hidden by the men and the little girl.
Thnaks again for all the +ve Feedback.

Hope ICM gets the upload page sorted out soon, i should be finished by the end of the week mwahahahahahahahah.

rj001, I'm following this with awe - your illustrations are as good as your excellent modeling. This would make a great tutorial - or even a book! We could do with a successor to Real World B4...

RJ mentioned perspecitve earlier on. I think this was probably done in what we used to call Isometric projection, which involves angles of either 45 or 60 degrees depending on the surface in question.

Wow...it's looking great RJ.  I can't wait to see something a little more "together."

I was contemplating using this challenge as a re-introduction to Bryce for me, but that seems almost silly given the great work you've already done!

Slakker: come on, its always worth Bryce-ing i'm sure you could create something.

Brholte: looking good so far, i had toyed with the idea of a church, until Bryster conned me into my current project.

i'm going to hold off the WIP's for a while so as not to hijack the whole thread.

Bryster: you could use the crystal palace model, perhaps modify it  - under constrcution or full of exhibits.

RJ: Hey ! didn't force you to take this on. I only made a suggestion. LOL
As for the CP, thanks for the idea but I'm already up to my neck in time-sucking projects.

Coming along nicely rj001.

...oh and, come on Bryster, it's only fair, and why must all this other stuff (time sucking projects) get in the way. Me thinks you should have to hang up your own red velvet robes if you keep shying away from the challenge................. You are the expert mate, but I think rj001 might be after your crown..... *(dhama sniggers behind his hand while sinking his head into his neck making 'mutley' sounds)

*As for me, well i've been out in the countryside with my girlfriend and her students taking a nature hike for the last three days, so i've nothing new to report yet....... god, i'll be so glad to sleep in a proper bed 2morrow night, seeing as i'm at work now doing the night shift............................... Now, wheres my coffee.

Dhama: *why must all this other stuff (time sucking projects) get in the way

*...because one of those time-sucking projects is the sucking Flying Scotsman.

Damn! It looks like the agency I joined has found work for me sooner than I expected...So I'm going to have less time for this challenge.

OMG!!... excuses, excuses...... you should be a politician mate.
Besides, it would be good to give that train a rest and do something different for a while, your project would certainly benefit from it.

And you're no better Incognitas...ever heard about a 'teabreak' :-P :-D

Quote - i'm going to hold off the WIP's for a while so as not to hijack the whole thread.

Hey rj, or anyone, how about splitting off rj's WIP's into their own thread like the bryster's locomotive?  I'm really enjoying following his progress but I agree that he probably shouldn't monopolize this WIP thread either so that seems like a fair enough solution.

Any thoughts?  I for one am looking forward to rj's continuing progress postings.

Great idea..........

Sounds like a good idea to me too. I have enjoyed, and been impressed by rj's progress in recreating this famous painting. He obviously is not faint at heart!

I don't have a clue how to do that, but I'll pass it on to Bobby who is probably lurking somewhere nearby.  ;-)

Best suggeesttion I have is for rj to start a fresh thread and replicate his WIP's in that, and then Rod or I could sticky that as this thread has turned into an Architecture Challenge judging from the first post in this thread that Rod has created[look back to page 1 first post]...sound reasonable...I agree it's a thread worth stickying[izzat a werd].. ...

I have created a sticky thread for RJ's work.
Hope you like.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2739808

I still have to add several bits and pieces of detail.  As of now, I am modeling each section seperately.  For my WIPs, I will assemble the different sections together in a seperate file to see what it looks like so far.

Still trying to think of the best camera angle to capture all/most of the architecture.

................I have a feeling that as soon as I think I'm getting somewhere, my computer is going to get really slow on me and Bryce will poop on me.

Impressive start...almost intimidating...LOL...good stuff.. ...

Brholte: keep going, Bryce can take it, haah

Benjamin - I'm so glad you put in the that imports are OK on distant objects. I really need some curved support cables and tried multi-reping spheres along a path and while it looked good it took 400 spheres. That slowed the Bryce wireframe to a crawl. Modo made cables worked so much better!
Great start on your building and I really like this theme. Been a long time since I did a  mostly Bryce scene.

Yeah, normally I would say no imports, but scenes like this generaly require massive amounts of objects, so I guess we have to be fair.  I don't want people to quit just because their scenes become too frustrating to wait on. 

The voters will be the judge of what is TOO many imports. 

Good luck, and thanks for participating!

Benjamin

Don't you hate it when after workiing on an image for a couple weeks, and you've managed to teach yourself something new, only to realize that you need to start your whole image over based on this new discovery.  Well,  that is what happened with my challenge entry.

So, I've started fresh (at least I had an idea what I was actually looking for this time).  Although you may not be able to see it, this image is much  more cleaned up and easy to work with for me!  I also took a page out of Rj001's WIPs and decided to "texture as I go".  I've been spending tons of time in the DTE and its really paying off! 

I'm especially proud of my marble texture which you can see in this WIP image.  This will not be my actual camera angle for my image, just one that works well for what I have so far.  Now I just have to figure out how to get some nice stained glass windows that will fit nicely into those holes..............

.........and on one more note,  has anyone checked out the challenge entry page yet?  There are already some really impressive images, and there's still another month to go!

nice work, i am curious what is the NEW technique? - looking good with those textures. cant wait to see more.

Sorry rj,  I didn't mean to make the "New technique" sound so magnificent.  I was merely trying to describe how unorganized my last attempt was.  It was a mess.  It was impossible for me to edit a specific section let alone apply textures to everything.  My groupings and families were not helping either.

I simply learned the hard way how to Bryce with Structure.  My progress on this image is 10X faster now that I can actually manuever through my image with ease, instead of trying to........
 
.......ungroup booleans and select the objects I want to edit and then try to regroup, but I can't seem to get ahold of that one negative object I need to complete the group, so my booleans don't ever regroup the way I want them to.  Opps, I accidentally moved this section over,  bla bla bla....  

That was what trying to "make progress" on my last attempt was like.  You more experienced brycers probobly remember these days.  Nothing will make me quit on a project quicker than that last example. 

Nice work dhama,  i've been up there so will be interested to see how it turns out, would also like to see a WIP on how you formed that arch.
May i suggest (though you may already have it planned) using a stone/brick pattern bump on that texture.
Looking forward to updates.