Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=977487&Start=1&Artist=Rochr&ByArtist=Yes

I am trying to get a better grasp on how to make scenes in Bryce (or any other program), have a sense of grandness. All my scenes are 3 dimensional, but lack that feel of being huge. Many artists have that feel to their work (i.e. rochr, max, wenger). A link to one of rochr's pieces illustrates the feel I speak of. Any opinions on how to acheive this kind of spaciousness?

BTW - input from the master himself (rochr) would be deeply appeciated.

Switch to camera view. Compose the scene. Now go to a side view and select everything, including the camera. Group it. Now scale the group way, WAY up. Like a thousand times or even more. You'll see a serious increase in fog and haze. Adjust haze untill it gives an illusion of normal distance. Blend With Sun and Color Perspective should also help. Another thing you can do is increase the scale of procedural textures. When you view objects in distance, you don't see every little crack and imperfection, right? Also, note that Rochr used a sky photo in the background. Bryce clouds have a maximum height they will go up to, which might hamper that feeling of spaciousness, although you can combine them with a photo (see my After the Rain).

Erlik have made some very good points above, and especially the part with faded textures is good to keep in mind. "Solar Phenomenon" is pretty straight forward, where i simply built away from the cam, until the point where you can mask the rest with the horizon. (see attached image) As it looks now, the scale of the thing is achieved thanks to the clouds. To avoid the clean cut with the horizon, use a 2D-tool, and a thick bright line with an amount of gaussian blur. Play around with the opacity so that the sky and structures blend together. You can also try adding a few blurred radials where the main light source is located. In retrospect, i couldve used some blurred objects in the foreground, very close to the cam and increase the depth/scale even more. Try using something people can relate to, a lifeform, wires, a balcony etc.

One point that's kinda obvious but it happens that people overlook it. I know I have a couple of times. :-) marko, see how Rochr's scene is lit? From the left. The photo is in agreement with it. The sun is somewhere on the left side of the scene.

LOL...I'm beginning to hate Rochr's scenes...they make my skills seems so inadequate......;-(

LOL, and Rudy always makes it sound so easy.....

I was looking at the art that is in the video game "God of War" on PS2, and was blown away by the sense of space involved. That and looking at Rudy's scenes makes me want to make my stuff "large" as well.

Not entirely what you were asking for Marco, but heres what i was talking about before, regarding the horizon. An easy way to blend a scene with a background sky.

...and the last part.

Nice insight Rudy. Thanks.

Excellent technique there! Thanks for the tut Rudy!

Hey Rudy, Is that layer mask giving the impression of cloud shadows on ground? Cheers!

I said Rudy always makes it look so easy, never comes out quite the same when I try!

Sans2012. Thats the part where the lines are partially erased with the gradient tool. The lines should gradually get darker the further away from the light source they get.

Oh, now I got it:) Cheers!