Forum: Bryce


Subject: WIP update - Stone of Tear WOT image...

lordstormdragon opened this issue on Jan 25, 2005 ยท 12 posts


lordstormdragon posted Tue, 25 January 2005 at 5:59 PM

Aye, I've been slaving over this scene for some time. Mostly, it's for a portrait of Rand, the so-called Dragon Reborn from Robert Jordan's WHEEL OF TIME book series. The shot is in the Heart of the Stone of Tear, a ridiculous fortress. The sword is Callandor, and isn't really a sword at all, but a Sa'angreal of great power. With it, one could, say, toss Seattle into the sea. So, nobody would ever use it to cut someone, it would be redundant. All of this is modeled in Rhino. The scene model ws 400MB, which made Rhino nearly useless and Bryce fully useless, upon import into Bryce it rose to over 500MB. So I did some optimizing, cutting polys in the chains and distant pillars and pretty much everywhere. Now the full scene, in Bryce, is still under 200MB...! Functional, at last. It took 5 hours to import the original Rhino scene model into Bryce. Rendering was copmletely out of the question. Anyway, from an architectural standpoint, how is this looking? From an artistic standpoint, where should I go next, aside from adding my characters (Rand and Bel'al and Moiraine...)? Thanks for looking, and feel free to rip this image to shreds!