Tutorials are great to get started. And also just fooling around with the tools is very good to learn the program. Even if the resulting models or scenes don't make any sense you learn much from it. Bryce was the first 3D-software I ever used and in the beginning I didn't use tutorials, but when I started using them it really was a boost, within one month I was already becomming familiar with most of the tools and I was making better scenes than the person who gave me the version of Bryce (I believe it was a free version of bryce 2 from computer-arts) and he had been using the program for half a year without tutorials.

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