I am very pleased to annouce the winners for the
January 2009 Bryce Monthly Challenge
 

**In 1st Place with 26 points  Quest
**
In 2nd place with 16 points Grafikeer

In 3rd Place with 15 points **Jrcejaspuido
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Very many congratulations to you all.
I now invite Quest to lead us into the next Challenge.

Points awarded in total are as follows....

Quest 26
Grafikeer 16
Jrcejaspuido 15
Neighborsgoat 9
Maxxstevens 7
DanWhiteside 6
Weezerhopw 6
Airflamesred 6
BerdacheBear 5
Brycevan 3
Rose 2
Valentinos 2
Sndcastie 2
Thunderstone 1
ADBC 1
Teagueb 1

congrats to the winners, it was fun as always participating; looking forward to the next challenge, therefore Quest, hurry up with a nice idea! ;)

Well done Quest, i'd really like to see the scene file if thats possible.

excellent all :) That was a fun one. I spent a lot of time on different ideas and it made me think a lot about how to make things work in bryce. It made my mind grow a bit and I learned some stuff. so let's do another one! :)

Grats Quest, now, hurry up and get us your idea! :P hehe

Congratulations to Quest and grafikeer, and also to all the participants.

A big thankyou to everyone that takes the time to vote, especially to the ones that haven't participated because their interest is very appreciated, at least by me.

Juani  

Hats off to the winners!

Congratulations to everyone...especially the top 3 winners! 

Sorry I didn't get to enter or  vote.  I'm in the middle of  (selectively)  transferring 6 yrs worth of junk from my old pc to a new one...   banging head against the wall

Congrats to Quest and jrcejapulido,and to all the other entrants that took the time to enter the challenge...it was a great turnout and a super group of images!I'm ready any time Quest!!

Congrats! Nice challenge and entries.

Congrats to the winners :-)

Congratulations to the winners

Thank you all! Congratulations to Grafikeer and Jrcejaspuido. And all the other entrants for their inspiring works.

As for our next challenge I was originally thinking about paying homage to Chesley Bonestell one of the first artists to depict space exploration. You can read about him here:

http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=97

and see some of his work here:

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS291US291&q=Chesley+Bonestell&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=x9WtSb3lLYGCtwev6oGEBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title&ei=2dWtSZ7ZHZDWnQeLotiNBg&gbv=2

But I didn’t want to be limited just to outer space art so I’m thinking a combination space art and sci-fi/fantasy futuristic landscape/cityscape art, lots of room to play around with here.

As for rules…yuk! Absolutely no restrictions on the software here. Everything goes! All that Bryce can muster and then some. Ultimately, the final render must be done in Bryce. It can be postworked but all postwork must be noted specifically. You can import models and textures from outside programs but you must specify the sources. If the sources come from artists other than yourself, they must be given credit. In essence, you must explain how the image was created.

To show you what I mean and also to inspire view these images:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS291US291&q=sci+fi+landscape+&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Zw-vSbm2OdLjtgfF3tn9BQ&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1&ei=8w-vSarnLNvFmQfyxJX5BQ&gbv=2

I hope I covered all. If I didn’t, I’m sure someone will remind me. Good luck to all and have fun!
 
 

WOOT! Pulling out all stops :P

Hehehe...Weezerhopw, I see you deleted your Carrera screengrab! OK, so it's a secret, I understand!

Anyway, here's another web site gallery which contains some very talented artists in this genre which might be helpful or inspiring. Have a look see thru the galleries. Please enjoy!

www.spacejetters.co.uk/html/museumguide.html

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that when you get down to the "spacejetter's" link, there you will find tutorials and models geared towards Bryce.

Congrats Winners!!

Quest, Kudos & Great avatar!!

Great Links Quest. Looking forward to this challenge.

Sounds like a great idea. Thank you, Quest. Give me a couple of days and I'll have the challenge page up and running.

BTW, do you have a deadline in mind?  This last one was 2 months long. Your call.

Well, didn’t realize the time factor. I always thought our challenges were but one month long but since we’re breaking the barrier here why not give the “kids” two months to get their act together? Eh…if that’s alright by you Sir Cardinal?

Quest, we did have a discussion last year about having challenges spread over two months. Can't remember what the concensus was though. But 2 months works for me.

Thank you Sir! Then 2 months it shall be!

Thanks for posting those screenies Quest, I really was interested in how you did the water ripples and dripping water. Will use that technique myself. Thanks.

Excellent thanks for that Quest, appreciated to insight.. never thought of using terrains like that. I'm glad people are using terrain for more than just terrains though.

Just one more question, what mat did you use for the water? that was also stunning.

For the water I wanted it to look toxic so I wanted a sickly green which I created in the Bryce material editor using the Caribbean Resort preset and tweaked the colors and some options.

That mat works very well in that lighting. You should consider turing this into a tutorial for other folk too. Thanks Quest.

Congratulations Quest.
And a fine theme you have selected there - this should bring out some big guns!

Ques, thanks for the mini-tut. Very interesting techniques.

Congratulations to the winners, Quest ,Grafikeer, and Jrcejaspuido! A lot of very nice images in this challenge. That was a great mini-tut Quest.

Also, I’ve been made aware that people are actually trying out these techniques and I’m afraid that if you’re just starting out you might be a little confused and frustrated right about now because I didn’t fill in the blank spots on the water drips. So stop pulling out your hair. The problem is that I’ve been here so long that I think everyone understands the technique instinctively. This of course doesn’t take into account the new Brycers who are just learning. For that I apologize. Here is the missing part of the puzzle.

You’ve created your water drip in whatever 2D image editor and you’ve managed to bring it into the Bryce 2D library. You then plastered it onto your 2D face and…and…and…you see the drips but you can’t see the background! The trick here is you must setup the texture for transparency. As far as transparency maps are concerned in Bryce…all that is black is transparent. All that is white…is opac. We need to place a bead using the same texture map in the transparency channel. I later altered these to meet my needs.

Great use for a pic object! Very effective. I think you've been very generous of your time in making these illustrated mini-tuts. This will keep on helping new and more advanced users of Bryce for a long time thanks to the Renderosity search function. I am familiar with using 2D pics with transparent alpha channels, but you gave me some new ideas on how I might use them more. Thanks again.

 Congrats to the winners.....and the next challenge promises to bring out the creativity in us all.....I think it;s going to be a great one Quest.

And for all his hard work, and thoughtfulness I think we should have 3 cheers for Quest.
hip, hip

LOL...okay...okay...cut the crap and pass the booze! Good luck to everyone! :lol: