Had embarked on an ambitious endeavour to create a complete fantasy image made of spheres (or at least 98% of it). Couldnt render it on my machine as it just wouldnt take the load (It took me 98 mins to save the Dragon I created after making some minor changes!). Took it to a friends machine for render and the machine crashed!!! As I was working on his machine (for the past 48 hours) I lost my files!!! :-( These things happen I guess! So theres no way Ill be able to enter this challenge (itll take me up to Tuesday to redo the image! The castle has to rebuilt from scratch, not to mention another centaur and the princess dress to be created!) I do intend to post the image later in the forum! All I have to show for now is some images of my work in progress! I wish all the challengers the very best. This challenge definitely pushed both hardware and me to new limits!! Guess the images will be up for vote today so I withdraw from the challenge! Therell be a new challenge to take up next year! Look forward to voting!

Man, youre insane! ;) Just the thought alone, to create an entire image with spheres, would make me want to go and hide somewhere! The best freakin boolean model to this date! All cathegories!!! It would terminate all competition! :) Im truly sorry for the lost files! I would love to see this entry, but i hope well see it posted next year!

wonderous

These models are excactly what I hoped for :) You've taken bryce to the limit and pushed it miles further. I'm looking forward to the finished image. You should render it at a massive resolution, so you can hang in on the wall. And I mean the whole wall, because there's just so much detail. I don't know if you're already doing it, but I'd suggest to save different models in different scene-files and then merge them for the final render. That could maybe enable you to load them without your computer crashing. What hardware do you use? I'm sorry for the lost files. Now I know why I heard that loud NOOOO!!! scream that broke all the glass objects in the house :P Respect to you. I would have smashed my keyboard through my monitor if I lost scenes as complex as yours.

Really insane... looks fantastic!

Jesus...(give me a minute while I gather my jaw from the floor) You are da king of Bryce modeling. I am unworthy. And...nope, you pic is going in the challenge, lol. It NEEDS to. Yours will make entry number 60, a new record. Sue me. AgentSmith

I'm sure everyone would agree with me, that they would also want it in the Challenge, at least for posterities sake. Great, great, great, great work, man. AgentSmith

:O....Ummm ok...but only place it as a WIP....wldn't want it 4 voting!

The dragon is one armed! I couldn't place the second arm in my machine and save it! This is the background that I had created. The city palace was supposed to float in the sky. Will complete and place the image in the forum!

The coulds are spheres as well! Am too tired...have been awake for the past 48 hours...amm off! Wish you guys a great weekend!!!

Your modeling is mind blowing. Hope to see more.

Fantastic work! Really looking forward to seeing the completed image.

gasp holy mother of god in heavens! this is amazing...

Just...amazingly fanstically wonderful. Definitly an inspiration.:)

Woohoo! Great job and sorry about the crashes. I know how that feels.

The complexity and beauty of the models is astounding, and I haven't seen anything quite so exquisit in Bryce before. Looking forward to seeing it finished and I guess all the lights around the world will dim slightly when you do that final render. :) Best of luck. Catlin

As AgentSmith said... We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

Humorix, do you have any idea how long it took me to find my eyes and put them back in my head after seeing your 'WIP'? :) I think you may have to hack into a supercomputer to save and render this scene properly. Heck of a job, I think we will all cheerfully bow to your creativity and expertese. Lin

If you ever need renderpower or a faster system than yours for the final render you can send me the files and I'll take 2 weeks to render it if neccesary. My system is an 1800+ AthlonXP with 512 MB of RAM and a dual 61,4GB stripe RAID. It never let me down with any scene. And believe me it's had very complex ones :)

That is amazing you are a Bryce Genious. I never even imagined someone could or even would embark on a project like this. The Centaur details alone like the hair on the legs astounds me. I've seen this type of art before but never have I seen them arranged into recognizable objects. Cheers!

Don't know what to say!? FANTASTIC WORK is all that comes into mind. What kind of system do you have? I also echo Rayraz in his offer. I have two dedicated systems that only render. Let me know if I can help with the rendering.

Humorix - I'm a jaded old-school Brycer and this model has me speechless. This definitely sets a new bar for primitive/boolean modeling in Bryce. There hasn't been something so over the top like this in a long time. Reminds me of when the Bryce community got shocked by Ting and Robert's Big Rig - the truck model of terrains in Bryce 1. Back then there was no such thing as sym-latt but they did it anyway. I bet you linked the spheres and made it poseable too! Congrats and good luck in the contest. Render on! Scott - aka Tuckersaur.

There is no doubt about it Humorix you are the Bryce modeling king. My dragons pale in comparison to your's, if there is no comparison! Great job!

Exellent!

wow (nothing else to say)