electroglyph 3
ThunderStone 2
orbital 1

I've added a shoal of fish and some distant landscape. This is another WIP - thought it would be good to continue the story in thread while waiting for entry page :)

The shoal was fun to make, I inflated a fish from a silhouette, made lots of copies and joined them together in Curvy, then warped the shoal as a single object - so it looks like the fish are twisting and turning together.

Thanks for the answers to my Qs - they will save a lot of time & frustration :) I've started reading the manual but got a bit overwhelmed by the length of it ;)

WIP: Added some more elements in Bryce. I am wondering whether to add a distant hazy landscape and underwater fortress - or leave it more graphic with the plain blue background.

  Bryce lighting and object selection is quite tricky:

• Can you turn off shadow casting for an object? (I had to render without my water surface to stop it shadowing the creature from the sun)
• is there a way you can make a selection from a list instead of trying to click in 3D? (When several lights and objects are overlapping I find it hard to choose the right one)

@**rashadcarter UV maps are added automatically as you draw the objects. I would usually paint the texture maps in Curvy, but thought it would be fun to see how far I could get with Bryce procedurals instead.

I'm adding the background now, and feeling the render times as I experiment with lighting (slow)... I am used to Curvy updating in real-time fully shaded ;)
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WIP Pics

I've made an underwater creature for the challenge - The Sea King. I used Curvy for the initial sculpt - took just over an hour so far.

Now I've got him in Bryce and I'm experimenting with materials and lighting. Lots more to add to this WIP :)

ThunderStone - 3 points

Incognitas - 2 points

adbc - 1 point