clyde236 opened this issue on Oct 17, 2002 ยท 41 posts
MikeArizma posted Fri, 18 October 2002 at 10:37 AM
It's true that creating photorealistic scenery isn't happening in Bryce, and my purpose in generating scenery isn't to do that at all. Actually, I want my images to look more like paintings. For me, it's artwork. The argument concerning photorealistic scenery might be that if you cannot tell the difference, why not use photos worked into the image? There are digital cameras and 3D graphics programs. They can work together, of course. And even though the super high-end stuff at ILM and other professional outfits proves that you can do about anything digital, they still utilize actual scenery shots while adding in the digital characters, such as what was done in Jurassic Park. I read where they duplicate scenery, including ungulating waters, only where necessary when looking for stark realism. AgentSmith, I usually do one or two images per day, but go off line for vacations or when I'm working on a batch of images for other purposes, such as when I was loading up at the Fine Arts department of the Marketplace here. I sometimes work with writers or supply some work to schools (supplying material for role playing games), etc., all upon request. Not much money in it yet, but there's always a little hope for that down the road apiece. My work flows quickly, as I have never read the manuals fully (which seems to be a hinderance) and learned by experimentation or an occasional tutorial by people who, like me, discovered things in their own way. Poser and Bryce work together fine for me, plus my rendering times are very, very short. Each image you see took from ten to twenty minutes, with an occasional one that took over a half hour. Because of that, the only time taken is the design of the image itself. I then post them here and at the 3D Commune, where the comments come in larger numbers. I post there under my real name, using WMBagley for the spelling and case. From my perspective, my work shows here a bit sharper than at the Commune. It's fairly obvious to me on this computer. There is another site, although I haven't posted there in many moons, which showed them as sharp as they are on my own screen before posting. It's not in this country, so I have totally forgotten the site URL. I posted there as a guest artist.