These are the going rates for 2D and 3D animation as listed in The Graphic Artists Guild's Handbook for pricing and ethicalguidelines. (free from the Guild when you join www.gag.org) Computer Animation, Fee per Second: ------------------------2D-------------- 3D Advertising ------- $500 - $1000 ---------- Broadcast--------- $600 -$1,200 --------- Corporate--------- $200-$600 ------$500 -$1000 Educational-------- $150-$500 ----------- Industrial--------- $200-$600---------- - Web, Large Client----$200-$600 ------$450-$1000 Web, Small Client----$150-$500 ------$250-$600 I hope that helps you. Also the PoserProPack can export Poser Movies in Flash format ready for the web. Or you can export standard Quicktime movies from Poser4 and convert them to animated GIF's using GifBuilder.

I'm not making any accusations, just an observation. All I'm saying is that there is a Bryce Lightning installer on the same CD as the Bryce5 installer. It's possible that someone could miss this when installing Bryce5 from the CD.

Hey, you're welcome! Hey, you're welcome! ;-) Glad I could help.

Upgrade to Bryce5, it has a very realistic Depth of Field effect. It makes the renders take a crapload longer, but the effect is great. Check out my gallery, I have a lot of renders using that feature.

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You should be able to find it here under product updates or downloads

I guess some people just have nothing positive in their lives so they occupy themselves with trying to make everyone else's life as miserable and lonely as their own. It's sad really. I'll bet this halfwit is probably a pimpley 14 year old boy with delusions of being a "hacker". He's angry at himself and the whole world, so he comes here and screws with us. You can see by the way he typed his post that he is an emotionally disturbed individual. This is just a cry for help. One tip for you Acontius: They're called "anti-depressants", use them.

Wow! You guys are really kicking it into high gear. Beautiful work everyone.

You need to create key frames for each object before you move the timeline to the end. Any object that is not keyframed will revert to it's original position as soon as you move the slider. If you're not real experienced with key framing you might want to use the Auto Key option.

Hey, you're preaching to the choir. Tell Corel Bryce Support enough times and maybe Bryce6 will have those improvements. All I'm saying is that if you sit around waiting for the software to be perfect, you'll be sitting by yourself. Software, like life, is full of "work arounds". You make do the best you can with what you've got. Or you can sit around, complain and get nothing done, your choice.

Nukeboy wrote: "First off... don't rely on Poser to give you any kind of quality rendering." Huh?!?. I beg to differ my friend. Both Poser and Bryce have their strengths and weaknesses. Here's a side by side comparison of the same Vicki 2 model rendered in Poser4 and Bryce5 with one spotlight as the only light source, same textures same pose and aproximately the same lighting, camera angle and focal length. The hair is Casseopia hair by Vairesh (available at daz3d.com). I think Poser handles it's own models and native textures a little better than Bryce does, but it's pretty close. I still prefer to use Poser figures in Bryce because Poser tends to crash if you make scenes too big (no matter how much RAM you give it).

I guess it's true then "Only God can make a tree". To be honest I've never seen any expensive programs that could make a perfect tree either. If you want an easier way to nicer trees there is always the "Delvin Forest" CD, available at www.3dplants.com for around $50. It has a huge assortment of every kind of tree, and a large selection of conifers. Well worth the money if you are not happy with the tree lab in Bryce. In my opinion the tree lab is a vast improvement over the measly few tree meshes and textured spheres that are still in the "create" menu. By the "curve" do you mean the little bulge in the middle of the trunk? If so I haven't figured out how to get rid of that either. I usually just do a little post render touch up to get rid of that. I do the same thing to get rid of jagged edges on Poser models and other imported meshes. You can curve the branches down or up using the Gravity slider, I don't know of any way to bend the trunk...yet. I gave up on waiting for someone to turn Bryce into Lightwave a long time ago. For the money it is hard to beat, but I never expect it to be perfect. If you're waiting for all the "issues" to be fixed before you create something, you'll be old and gray before you post your first picture. I've got a six page gallery here full of images created with this imperfect software. I know it's flawed, but I prefer to see the glass as half full and not half empty. I have my learning experiences as I am creating things, and sometimes I just "play" looking for new tricks. You should just make the best of what you have and start posting some images. You'll be surprised at how much more you'll learn when you see your own work next to other people's. No one expects your work to be flawless, you shouldn't either. Jump in, the water's fine. ;-)

Good call Clay! I never would have thought of a light being cancelled out by a shadow. It's something that doesn't happen in the "real world". It usually works the other way around. ;-) btw, Thanks for the compliment Nukeboy.

What format are you exporting from Poser? If you export your figures from Poser as OBJ files they should import smooth and with all their textures applied. If your figures look like they are rough carved from wood you need to edit them smooth. Do this by clicking on the model to highlight it, then clicking on the little "E" next to the model. Select the Smoothing option by clicking on the smooth sphere, you can also adjust the level of smoothing by raising the scale on the left. After it has edited the model, close the window and render. The wooden look will be gone.

I've had this happen once or twice too. It happened to me when I was trying to import a couple of heavily propped figures into Bryce5 from Poser4. The best I could guess was that some of the props were not OBJ files originally, but rather 3ds or some other format. So when Bryce was trying to import them as OBJ's it went "Huh?", hence the I/O Bad Media warning. You might want to post this in the Poser forum as well, in case anyone there knows what it is.

The tree lab is kind of complex. You have to adjust a lot of the parameters to get the desired effect. I agree it should be easier to use, but I always manage to get the effect I'm looking for. I'm using the update and the one feature that was supposed to be fixed (terrain clipping) still does not function correctly. I'd suggest reporting the problem to Corel Bryce Support, they're the only ones who can do something about it. I notice a lot of people come here to complain about how they can't do something in Bryce. The majority of the time the fault lies with the user not knowing enough about the software to achieve the effect they want. Out of frustration they blame the software. To be perfectly blunt, all 3D software can be deceptively easy to use, but it all can take a lifetime to master. I've been using Bryce for almost 6 years and I'm completely self taught. Despite that I still learn something new everyday and I don't consider myself a "master" by any means. Try experimenting with some dial adjustments in the tree lab and you'll see how you can make all kinds of trees with just slight adjustments.