Walt Disney (actually Ub Iwerks, if you want to be technically correct) invented, many years ago, a technique to get 3D effects in animation. This was called multiplaning and can be seen most clearly in the movie Snow White. This consisted of placing several painted cells at various distances underneath each other. The cells were painted with transparent areas which would show the scenes on the cells beneath. I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in Bryce. For example, I take a photo of a forest scene, and in Photoshop cut out the areas between the trees I want, leaving white of black areas, place this on a 2D plane, then place other similar forest planes behind that one, thus achieving a 3D effect. Now, theoretically, I know this is possible, because some of the preset trees in Bryce are simply pictures places on 2D planes. But I have no clue how to do it, nor how to make the areas I want transparent to be transparent. The ability to do multiplaning would really help me out in the type of pictures I want to do. Hawk, or anyone else out there, can anyone give me a clue how I might be able to accomplish this using photos and photoshop?

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