Forum: Bryce

Subject: If you have the courage, then show us! :-) (First Bryce Render Thread)

Doublecrash opened this issue on Mar 03, 2003 ยท 76 posts

Doublecrash posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 12:51 PM

Ok. I've got the idea because I just saw alvinylaya posting posted in the gallery his very first Bryce render (not bad at all, BTW!). I immediately thought it would be interesting (and, why not, hilarious) if we could do the same in the Forum by posting our very first Bryce render (or, at least, the oldest Bryce pic we can find in our HD's). So... I challenge you! Yes, you all! Put aside the justified shame and show us what you weren't still capable of! :-D LOL... this is sooo funny, I hope you will find it funny as I do. Being the one who threw the first rock, I of course won't hide my guilty hand. Above you can see my very first masterpiece, composed in 1998 with Bryce2 (and please note the very original title...) -- nothing to be surprised if after this brilliant image I left Bryce for a year or so... Stefano

tmac87 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 12:57 PM

Thankfully mine was lost in a HD crash, trust me it was painfull to see.

pakled posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:04 PM

I still have mine somewhere..though most of my stuff looks like the '1st Bryce pic' to this day..;) I'll dig it up..

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

SAMS3D posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:07 PM

LOL....I do not, big yellow streak down my back....Sharen

Ang25 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:09 PM

Hope I can dig mine up. Will have to wait till I get home. This should be a humbling thread. :-D

alvinylaya posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:12 PM

Hey hey Stefano, I don't know what came upon me but here it is: My first one, it actually made hate Bryce and stop for a while. But, here I am still Brycing.

I really thought those vicous critics would feast on it LOL.

Sunset 1999: Rendered in Metacreations Bryce 3d, No postwork, no nudity, no violence... Just plain old newbie Brycing. LOL

dan whiteside posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:18 PM

Here's mine - Bryce 1 - Sept 94. Like just about everyone else that's new to 3D, reflective spheres totally blew me away! The render took a coupla hours on a 25MHz LC III Mac.

Doublecrash posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:35 PM

Attached Link: http://www.povray.org

That's ok, we all somehow begun with the reflective sphere somewhere... this is my VERY first, but it was done with POVRay (you had to input every detail in a text editor before start rendering!) POVRay is still out there, and has improved a whole lot. Plus, it's free and has the sourcecode of public domain. They're simply great.

AgentSmith posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:38 PM

I knew this would happen after I saw Alvin's pic in the gallery...so, here's my first. Bask in the glow of its cheesy-ness. AgentSmith

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ICMgraphics posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:39 PM

Top one "Ice Wiz" was Bryce 5 demo, Poser demo, & 90% PhotoShop. I used the eye from an ad on Renderosity front page. LOL Second one "Fly Ball" was My new copy of Bryce 5 and Poser demo. I think I was still cranking up the old PII 500mgz. After that I went to Crome on Ocean stuff. hehe

Doublecrash posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:41 PM

C'mon, AgentS, we don't believe it! You showed already a very good feel for reflections and "disrupted" texturing... show us the real one! :-) (j/k???)

ICMgraphics posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:46 PM

Oh yeah, the Wizard is actually just pasted in there.

Z_Shadow posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:53 PM

This is the oldest I could find. Back in 1999. The stripes on the candy canes were done in photopaint. I didn't know a thing about manipulating textures or editing terrains. AAMOF I still don't.

SAMS3D posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 1:57 PM

LOL...I like your little twigs for arms...Sharen

Incarnadine posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 2:01 PM

My turn! Bryce 2. Of course it had to have the cool reflective spheres. I was hooked!

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

FWTempest posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 2:25 PM

not quite my first, but the oldest one that I still have... 9/16/2000

bhubenig posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 2:41 PM

Here's mine. I really liked playing with the lights. Bryce 4

Ornlu posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 2:49 PM

Attached Link: Corny near first =/

Not my absolute first, but within the first week or so, anyway, earliest one I could find. I originally thought I'd do an animation with it, then I learned that things like this can't be animated (easily) (without weeks of tiresome labor) in bryce. Anyway. laugh at the corny image..

Erlik posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 2:55 PM

Do you want drafts and partial renders or a first complete picture? This is the first picture I felt was complete and could allow it to go into the wide world. :-) Bryce 5.

-- erlik

DarkndSoul13 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 3:16 PM

Well I see there are a lot of us brave souls showing what our first renders were with bryce so I thought I would hop on the band wagon. I did this image back in 98.

Rochr posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 3:44 PM

Man, im gonna have nightmares after browsing through my old stuff! Horrible, to say the least... April the 20th 1999 (and i thought i was into my fifth year with Bryce. Memory failure...)

Rudolf Herczog
Digital Artist
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tjohn posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 4:04 PM

Here's the oldest thing I have...there is older stuff but it's on a hard drive in a closet at my parent's house. And I ain't gonna try to fire that sucker up just to get a worse image than this one. :^) This one's about 3 years old and made with Bryce3D about 6 months before I upgraded to Bryce 4. This image came out too dark. Look closely and you'll see the gag. Such that it is. Oh, I feel so dirty.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

tjohn posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 4:06 PM

And stupid. Here's the pic.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

ICMgraphics posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 4:18 PM

That's great, moo-n

Emberghost posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 4:38 PM

Heres mine...

Colette1 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 4:41 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?Form.SortOrder=UserName&Start=65&Artist=Colette1&ByArt

Here's a whole page of firsts'. Talk about excited about a new program...LOL

Colette1 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 4:42 PM

Pictured is my very first.

northcat posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 5:00 PM

Ok, don't make fun...I'm new to this forum and looking at your stuff makes me realize how very far I have to go. This is from an animation of the airplane sky writing "HELP".

pakled posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 5:02 PM

Ok..now I'm *really* embarrassed. Y'see..when I posted my first Bryce picture, I **REALLY** posted my first Bryce picture..complete with the 'well What's *that* do? hadn't even cracked the manual..;) Originally posted, oh..almost a year ago, Gallery image 166804.jpg..;) my how time flies..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

TheWanderer posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 5:38 PM

Hi Well here's mine 6/8/2002 I was trying to find a way of showing mitch's whale off!

jeffdejong posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 6:12 PM

yep

Flak posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 6:26 PM

Yeap, my first, can't remember the page in the manual this one was made from. Not a horde in sight.....

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lsstrout posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 6:39 PM

August, 2000. Please admire the red hill/mountain/whatever in the background!

paul_carduner posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 8:05 PM

Attached Link: MY OLD SITE... scary

you know... i think some of these people are cheating. lol. some of those first pictures are SO SO much better than mine. :) well as a special treat... i have a link to my old site. wow... just gruesome. and to hopefully redeem myself, atleast a little, even if its just a smidgen, here is my new site... www.ibiblio.org/paulcarduner/

brholte posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 8:45 PM

LOL.... this is a very good idea. Although this isn't my VERY first one (I don't know what happened to it) this is my second image, which IS my first one ever posted. My first image was a lot worse than this one I must confess, but this is all I can share until I can find my actual first image. I'll keep looking.

Ang25 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 9:49 PM

Well this isn't the first one I did, but its the earliest I could find that I saved. All I can say is I'd only had Bryce for less than a month when I made it and its appropriately called "firstlandtreewaterscene". Angela

EricofSD posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 9:52 PM

I believe this is my first showable Bryce render. Was Bryce 3d.

tjohn posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:00 PM

I've noticed no one is posting any suggestions for improving any of these images. :^D

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

EricofSD posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:24 PM

And I noticed that the date is wrong on mine. I didn't date it when it was first done, but it was Christmas of '99 I think and not Christmas of '98. Was Bryce 3d.

ICMgraphics posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:24 PM

LOL, here you can have mine and a crayon.

shadowdragonlord posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:25 PM

Worse and worse! This image was a prelude to one in my gallery, and a precursor to me finally getting used to the DTE....! 7-29-01, Bryce 5 Demo... (I have older stuff, from Bryce 3D(It Moves!), but it's all at home, and admittedly too horrible even for one such as me!

miden1138 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:38 PM

I'm on a new comp, so I can't look to find the first one that I ever did. (Thank God!) Made with the Bryce 4 demo and Photoshop. Posted here in April 2000.

miden1138 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:42 PM

Looking back up the thread, I have to say: My, how we've improved!! :)

Zhann posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 11:52 PM

This is the first one I did in Bryce, after reading upmteen tutorials on abstracts, it took 5 hours to render, I did the sphere over water thing in my first Vue renders....

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Zhann posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 12:03 AM

First Vue too...for comparison

Bryce Forum Coordinator....

Vision is the Art of seeing things invisible...

Colette1 posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 12:47 AM

Zhann, I like that one! The first Bryce one.

Colette1 posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 12:50 AM

Here's something fun...take your first picture and make it into something using what we know now, but leaving the theme intact. Does that make sense?

madmax_br5 posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 1:30 AM

ok here's my first..i posted on earliet but delted cause i thought it was the first but it wasn;t.

madmax_br5 posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 1:31 AM

by the way...June 200, bryce 3d

Zhann posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 1:55 AM

June 200, how old are you madmax_br5?

Bryce Forum Coordinator....

Vision is the Art of seeing things invisible...

madmax_br5 posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 2:16 AM

hahahaha June 2000 :) I am 16

Doublecrash posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 3:23 AM

WOW... this is fun! I didn't expect such a massive response! :) Colette, big idea! We could try something like this... in my case, though, I have only the image and not the Brycefile... I started to save them from B4 (I think it was the time that I begun thinking that maybe, one day, I could've re-worked them in the future to make them better... the day that hope begun!) But your idea really rocks. Stefano

lindans posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 3:34 AM

Well what can I say ...If this isn't encouragement for new Brycers nothing is!!!! Makes me feel so much better. LOL

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bikermouse posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 4:45 AM

This my the first or real close to it. At least it's the one I think of when I think of my first Bryce pict.(back then I saved in pcx format.)

ICMgraphics posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 5:53 AM

Now that you all have delved deep into the depths of your rendering souls ;)... Can you see the difference between then and now? Going back and reviewing the timeline of my artwork has made me appreciative in the fact I have the resource here at Rosity and especially here in the BF. Thanks everyone! P.S. and remember.....that newbe was YOU! LOL, I mean me. :)

P-man posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 6:40 AM

Attached Link: http://www.sktf097.nu/img/desktop/opensee_golfing800x600.jpg

And here's my li'l piece. Wich I'm not to proud of...;) Wasn't much I did create there, now was it ? LOL.

nuski posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 7:08 AM

First image . . . Bryce 2 . . . . Mac 5200 75mhz. . . . date?? . . . a long long time ago. . . .in a galaxy far away. . .

Brendan posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 9:20 AM

Not only my first Bryce image but the first thing I ever did on a computer. The Bryce interface had a logic about it that enabled me to fly from the word go, it must set the paradigm for ease of use? Great thread! It took me way back to my days of Bryce innocence. Great stuff all!

Incarnadine posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 10:37 AM

Colette1, thtats a cool idea. I think I might try to redo my first two scenes. Should be interesting challenge, to retain the main compositional idea with more advanced techniques, mats, etc.

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!

Gog posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 10:48 AM

My very first one, rendered about 40 minutes after I recieved my copy of Bryce 2 :-)

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Gog posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 10:56 AM

Interesting to see doublecrash started with POVRay, that was the first package I used (on a 386 Lol!) nice to see it's still going strong. I can still remember all that text editing and

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Tamalynn_36 posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 12:03 PM

Ok here is mine. Actually the first one I did is much better than the second one. I have not been using bryce for very long but have improved some I think. 1/11/03. I even named it: My First Landscape. How original is that.

SevenOfEleven posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 12:27 PM

Some of this early Bryce stuff looks pretty cool. My early Bryce renders were landscapes then I joined a gallery much later and they were not into landscapes so I stopped making them. This picture 10/27/1995 on a powermac 9500 I think. Don't remember how fast it was.

WindofChanges posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 12:33 PM

Yess i also like to post my first work... i'm a newbie to the bryce world inspired by the movie Mosnters Inc. i used to post my work on theme xp for wallpaper a lot of one downloaded this pic... then i got more inspiration and got to know abt renderosity while searching ... Thank you...

eelie posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 2:01 PM

I'm an avid jigsaw puzzler and I finally found a computer program I really liked and it used any image, especially 800-600. That fits most computer wallpapers. So, I began a quest to find images I liked that I could use at jigsaw puzzles. That led me to a lot of sites where people used mysterious programs to make them -- mostly Bryce. What was this strange program, Bryce? Then I found Renderosity and started reading about this *Bryce* thing. Hum....it's a 3D program. Well, that sounded cool. Wonder how I go about getting it. Look! There's free trial version. Well, how cool! It's not that I'm computer illiterate...quite the contrary. It's just that my experience is in the world of type, not images. They tell me I'm a computer programmer (even if that was a life time ago). I've taught computer courses, I do curriculum editing for a living and use some 2D skills. But I've only just discovered first hand the world of 3D. This was done late October '02 after having played with Bryce for maybe 3 weeks. There was another thread where folks talked about how happy they were when they got votes in a challenge or won one.... If only you all could have heard the squeal I let out when I saw my first vote in last month's challenge - a squeal that became a shriek when I placed third. ~sigh~ Some things *just might* be better than sex! :o)

shadowdragonlord posted Tue, 04 March 2003 at 9:56 PM

Found this old one, too, from my previous name here (darkelf420)... It's the very first thing I did with Bryce 5. (laughs!)

Erlik posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 5:05 AM

Tamalynn, you posting from the future? :-)

-- erlik

shadowdragonlord posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 5:42 AM

If only we were ALWAYS that excited about the way things worked, instead it seems like many of us (self included) often focus on the future too much. Bryce 6? Who cares, until we've all mastered 5 it's not even an issue, is it? (except the goddamn Soft Shadows for the Skylab!)

tjohn posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 6:29 AM

Erlik: I'm guessing you're from one of the nations that write dates as ddmmyy instead of mmddyy. Tamalynn's date is January 11, 2003, not November 1, 2003, LOL.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

lsstrout posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 11:34 AM

Oh shoot! Here I was hoping that Tamalynn could clue us in on future events! ;)

orbital posted Thu, 06 March 2003 at 3:35 AM

Just posted mine in the gallery, here it is "boing", I was so happy I got a comment from it.

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pauljs75 posted Thu, 06 March 2003 at 8:54 AM

This is the oldest that I could find on my ol' trusty Presario 1690 AMD K6-II 400MHz laptop. Which I still use when I'm not at the online computer. I believe it was made some time before my second Meditarranean cruise (on USS Enterprise.) I belive I rendered this while guarding my laptop in the cramped confines of my rack. Anyhow, I'm glad to be a civilian again (me and Navy life was like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole.) ;)

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Swade posted Mon, 21 April 2003 at 6:19 PM

Well.... I started with Bryce 3d. And the first real image I completed (though didn't post as I didn't know about Renderosity at the time) was this and I called it Sun Bathing...

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Doublecrash posted Mon, 21 April 2003 at 7:10 PM

LOL :) Looks like someone forgot the sunscreen ;-) S.

bromyaur posted Tue, 22 April 2003 at 8:30 AM

Attached Link: http://www.graphicsteck.com/images/BUBBLES.jpg

mine is your typical spheres over water lol, who hasnt done one of these both about 4 or 5 years ago 1'st is the one in the link 2'nd here http://www.graphicsteck.com/images/CHAIN.jpg **************** http://www.graphicsteck.ca/vb/

bromyaur posted Tue, 22 April 2003 at 8:31 AM

Attached Link: http://www.graphicsteck.com/images/BUBBLES.jpg

mine is your typical spheres over water lol, who hasnt done one of these both about 4 or 5 years ago 1'st is the one in the link 2'nd here http://www.graphicsteck.com/images/CHAIN.jpg **************** http://www.graphicsteck.ca/vb/