original thread LINK........... with more details by brholte

Feel free to post your WIPs in this thread.
(please keep image size to 800x600 and under 200kb)

Here is the Theme:

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Theme:   " BRYCE - Architecture"

Architecture and cityscapes/skylines. This could be a skyline/cityscape, or maybe the inside of a building or church. Maybe even a complex piece of machinery.

Basic Composition:

...all architecture is created by the artist within Bryce using any building tools that come with Bryce whether it be primitives, terrains, trees, 2d surface, etc. etc.

...although I would rather not see photographs of buildings applied to 2d surfaces to be used for entire buildings, as long as your main focus is modeled entirely with Bryce, the technique you use for the rest of the image is up to you.

Imports:

As far as imports go….. Again, as long as the main focus of your image (architecture) is modeled with only Bryce, feel free to use anything else for your image.

Postwork:

Post work should be used tastefully. The over all theme here is architecture and cityscapes, so feel free to use post work for color enhancements, DOF, or creating textures. 

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As I've just finished two cityscapes and already posted them in my gallery..I'm kinda bored of the theme for a bit.

I'm always out of step with the world.

Okay - heres WIP-01, The easy stuff from Brysters starting point.  Starting with a cube, shape and repeated for the crenallations. another cube for the wall, make it positive, then using negaitve cubes for the opening, the metal grille is cylinders. textures etc, and bryce trees. Note to the Bryster - theres some damn funny perspective lines in this image, gonna be fun trying to duplicate them. Ive already decided not to include the people, after all its a Bryce challenge and i would need to poser them in. and quite frankly i'm going to have my work cut out with the architecture. right now onto the next bit.

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Well done rj001, for taking up TheBrysters suggestion. I'm sure you'll do it justice.

I had a few ideas.... first it was going to be the Potala palce in Tibet, then it was going to be Tower bridge... then Big Ben LOL... But I sort of went back to the ori´ginal idea, but this time a Buddhist monastery perched on the side of a mountain. Here is the work in progress... two parts of the monastery.

Nice feel to those models dhama - looking forward to more, recently finished a mountain temple myself, had a heck of a job getting it positioned of the terrain, so really looking forward to seeing your solution..

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Heres WIP_02 - modelling the arch columns, basic cubes/pyramids with negative booleans for the recessed areas., i shall be coming back to the freize later.

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I tried a little setup to see how I would approach it, and made the mountain first, but I think the solution has to be the monastery fiirst so that I can get the placement right, and then build a mountain around  it in smaller pieces. I did a similar thing with my tree roots on the rocks on the side of a mountain. I started with the roots and gradualy added rocks till it looked like the roots were wrapped around them.  Just a case of getting to the root of the problem eh? :laugh:

Looking good so far, you seem to have a handle on it already.

@ rj001:   what painting is this from.... ?  

oops

I just saw it in another thread...  Hans Holbein.

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Way to go, RJ ! Good luck to you.....and all the other entrants.

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WIP-2A, modelling for the arch way and cornice - a collection of cubes and negative cylinders forming cornice shapes. use the 'C' - collapse function when happy to simplify the model.

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WIP-3, additional modelling of the archway (i'll get to the frieze later) - also modelling the birdcage and potted plant. The use of birdcages in old paintings is symbolic of the artists trapped soul or muse, maybe he is being forced to paint something against his will. i notice there are a lot of birdcages in this image. not sure what the potted plant, or the rugs over balcony mean, but they occur frequently too.

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Phew! Fast work!

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WIP-04: some texturing, as its only background i can keep some of it simple: a coin face applied to a cylinder for the head crest on the left side of the arch. a modified rug texture from google, applied to the rug terrain. - and for the relief i used a piece of a copper frieze image and applied it to terrains. The sky is going to need some work, (i may have to hand paint it )-  as is the lighting for this scene, ill need lots of spotlights to mimic the shadow falls. fun fun fun.

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(Orders 10 yards of red velvet for RJ's robes...)

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WIP-05: the house on the walkway, a simple bit of boolean cube modelling, the texture is an old brick txt from way back, mad a bit brighter. bryce standard concrete with mods making the stonework. - the bugger on this is that i modeled the building as it works architecturally, but in the painting there is some badley forced perspectives on it, especially at the roof, which i cannot duplicate. - guess thats going to be the trade off in this image.

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Amazing work....

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wow,  looks like Rj needs a WIP thread of his own!! 

lol,  jk. 

looks good bro.  You've really started early with a lot of heart and soul in that one.  I'm gonna get started on mine on Tuesday.  I'm still in the drawing stages.

I'm gonna suggest that B7 gets an applause button.

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WIP-07: The small stairway on the left. simple collection of cubes made positive, negative cube and negative cylinder with a sphere on top, make the recesses. steps and window framing added, again that modified concrete texture. the recess has a picture that i cant make out, so i put in one of mine from my gallery. (A wet kiss if you can name it hahah). The cornice is just more booloeans.

As i am not doing the figures i had to make up the return edge, which i am assuming is hidden by the men and the little girl.
Thnaks again for all the +ve Feedback.

Hope ICM gets the upload page sorted out soon, i should be finished by the end of the week mwahahahahahahahah.

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WIP-07: Now the building behind the staircase, the artists perpectives on this are all wrong again, but never mind. simple modelling, cubes positive and negative for building and windows. The first cornice is 'The Shape' (There are those that will know) The Upper cornice is a collection of primitives again. (Noticed i had missed out a brick line and had to slot that in under) Is this helping? Should i stop? (Maybe i should get  back to work though before anyone notices...)

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WIP-08: Starting work on the fore-ground building. simple work to produce the ceiling and window wall. the rose pattern i created myself from some google images and paintshop. The cherub was another googled image, this time applied to a terrain, and using bryce gold metal. the cornice was the previous buildings cornice changed in scale. the bird perch supports a simple collection of cylinders and torus. . Tea break.

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rj001, I'm following this with awe - your illustrations are as good as your excellent modeling. This would make a great tutorial - or even a book! We could do with a successor to Real World B4...

RJ mentioned perspecitve earlier on. I think this was probably done in what we used to call Isometric projection, which involves angles of either 45 or 60 degrees depending on the surface in question.

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Wow...it's looking great RJ.  I can't wait to see something a little more "together."

I was contemplating using this challenge as a re-introduction to Bryce for me, but that seems almost silly given the great work you've already done!

Here's my first WIP post.  I'm doing the inside of a church.  Here I've started to construct the left pew section.  Its a meager start, but I don't have much time today.  I'll have more tomorrow evening.

Slakker: come on, its always worth Bryce-ing i'm sure you could create something.

Brholte: looking good so far, i had toyed with the idea of a church, until Bryster conned me into my current project.

i'm going to hold off the WIP's for a while so as not to hijack the whole thread.

Bryster: you could use the crystal palace model, perhaps modify it  - under constrcution or full of exhibits.

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RJ: Hey ! didn't force you to take this on. I only made a suggestion. LOL
As for the CP, thanks for the idea but I'm already up to my neck in time-sucking projects.

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Coming along nicely rj001.

...oh and, come on Bryster, it's only fair, and why must all this other stuff (time sucking projects) get in the way. Me thinks you should have to hang up your own red velvet robes if you keep shying away from the challenge................. You are the expert mate, but I think rj001 might be after your crown..... *(dhama sniggers behind his hand while sinking his head into his neck making 'mutley' sounds)

*As for me, well i've been out in the countryside with my girlfriend and her students taking a nature hike for the last three days, so i've nothing new to report yet....... god, i'll be so glad to sleep in a proper bed 2morrow night, seeing as i'm at work now doing the night shift............................... Now, wheres my coffee.

Dhama: *why must all this other stuff (time sucking projects) get in the way

*...because one of those time-sucking projects is the sucking Flying Scotsman.

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Damn! It looks like the agency I joined has found work for me sooner than I expected...So I'm going to have less time for this challenge.

OMG!!... excuses, excuses...... you should be a politician mate.
Besides, it would be good to give that train a rest and do something different for a while, your project would certainly benefit from it.

And you're no better Incognitas...ever heard about a 'teabreak' :-P :-D

Quote - i'm going to hold off the WIP's for a while so as not to hijack the whole thread.

Hey rj, or anyone, how about splitting off rj's WIP's into their own thread like the bryster's locomotive?  I'm really enjoying following his progress but I agree that he probably shouldn't monopolize this WIP thread either so that seems like a fair enough solution.

Any thoughts?  I for one am looking forward to rj's continuing progress postings.

Great idea..........

Sounds like a good idea to me too. I have enjoyed, and been impressed by rj's progress in recreating this famous painting. He obviously is not faint at heart!

I don't have a clue how to do that, but I'll pass it on to Bobby who is probably lurking somewhere nearby.  ;-)

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Best suggeesttion I have is for rj to start a fresh thread and replicate his WIP's in that, and then Rod or I could sticky that as this thread has turned into an Architecture Challenge judging from the first post in this thread that Rod has created[look back to page 1 first post]...sound reasonable...I agree it's a thread worth stickying[izzat a werd].. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

I have created a sticky thread for RJ's work.
Hope you like.

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Here's my work so far.  Haven't had as much time as I would like to work on this.  I'm hoping to have it done by the end of the challenge at least, but if not, still should make a good image. 

I still have to add several bits and pieces of detail.  As of now, I am modeling each section seperately.  For my WIPs, I will assemble the different sections together in a seperate file to see what it looks like so far.

Still trying to think of the best camera angle to capture all/most of the architecture.

................I have a feeling that as soon as I think I'm getting somewhere, my computer is going to get really slow on me and Bryce will poop on me.

Impressive start...almost intimidating...LOL...good stuff.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Brholte: keep going, Bryce can take it, haah

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Benjamin - I'm so glad you put in the that imports are OK on distant objects. I really need some curved support cables and tried multi-reping spheres along a path and while it looked good it took 400 spheres. That slowed the Bryce wireframe to a crawl. Modo made cables worked so much better!
Great start on your building and I really like this theme. Been a long time since I did a  mostly Bryce scene.

Yeah, normally I would say no imports, but scenes like this generaly require massive amounts of objects, so I guess we have to be fair.  I don't want people to quit just because their scenes become too frustrating to wait on. 

The voters will be the judge of what is TOO many imports. 

Good luck, and thanks for participating!

Benjamin

Don't you hate it when after workiing on an image for a couple weeks, and you've managed to teach yourself something new, only to realize that you need to start your whole image over based on this new discovery.  Well,  that is what happened with my challenge entry.

So, I've started fresh (at least I had an idea what I was actually looking for this time).  Although you may not be able to see it, this image is much  more cleaned up and easy to work with for me!  I also took a page out of Rj001's WIPs and decided to "texture as I go".  I've been spending tons of time in the DTE and its really paying off! 

I'm especially proud of my marble texture which you can see in this WIP image.  This will not be my actual camera angle for my image, just one that works well for what I have so far.  Now I just have to figure out how to get some nice stained glass windows that will fit nicely into those holes..............

.........and on one more note,  has anyone checked out the challenge entry page yet?  There are already some really impressive images, and there's still another month to go!

here's the image

nice work, i am curious what is the NEW technique? - looking good with those textures. cant wait to see more.

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Sorry rj,  I didn't mean to make the "New technique" sound so magnificent.  I was merely trying to describe how unorganized my last attempt was.  It was a mess.  It was impossible for me to edit a specific section let alone apply textures to everything.  My groupings and families were not helping either.

I simply learned the hard way how to Bryce with Structure.  My progress on this image is 10X faster now that I can actually manuever through my image with ease, instead of trying to........
 
.......ungroup booleans and select the objects I want to edit and then try to regroup, but I can't seem to get ahold of that one negative object I need to complete the group, so my booleans don't ever regroup the way I want them to.  Opps, I accidentally moved this section over,  bla bla bla....  

That was what trying to "make progress" on my last attempt was like.  You more experienced brycers probobly remember these days.  Nothing will make me quit on a project quicker than that last example. 

WIP for my second entry. This time i'm working on the old tower that sits atop the Glastonbury tor. The difficult bit so far was the arched door. I felt rather inspired by the work rj001 and brholte are doing.

Nice work dhama,  i've been up there so will be interested to see how it turns out, would also like to see a WIP on how you formed that arch.
May i suggest (though you may already have it planned) using a stone/brick pattern bump on that texture.
Looking forward to updates.

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The door arch was constructed like this......

And the elaborate work around the arch like this... and then copied and reduced a little for two more.

Very funky

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Added a little more detail to the front.............

And with texture....which of course is not going to be the final texture. Still looking for the right one.

Great, looking good.

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Is this still only one per person entry or can we enter more than one? And if so how do we do that?

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Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
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Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

 

After this challenge is over I'd very much like to see some or all of these fantastic works turn up in my other area of responsibility..Free Stuff*...please*...and thanks very much. I will remind y'all of this request at the end of the challenge so be warned....I am tenacious.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Almost getting to completion of the basic tower. Now I need to add the details. The arch windows were made with the same neg object I used for the door hole, but I added a box at the bottom to elongate it.

Why oh why couldn't this challenge have happened in the shitty weather season when I can not go out side and have tons of time to model....with the sun, I am drawn out of doors and can't seem to get more then my Official Duties done before I'm back out side mucking around in the garden...LOL.....but do keep the WIP's coming....I learn something from each and every one of them.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Now complete with elaborate trim. These were made using terrains, and a cutout of the original shape from a photograph. The same with the statue and half broken statue of the real tower. Of course there is a little deviance from the real life tower, as I like to change the design slightly where it might have looked ugly. But thats just my opinion. Just a few more finishing touches to make, and of course the texture which I hope will be quite close to the original.

Ok, here it is. complete with textures. I combined the basic foliage MAT which has 'see through' areas and adjusted it to look like plaster, with a stone brick texture from a photograph. Now all I need is to build a 'tor' to put it on. If anyone has question on how I created certain parts, if I haven't already covered them, i'd be happy to explain.

I am working with this image of "La Torre del Oro" wich is at Sevilla

I made first one module of the lower part

  Then replicate-rotate that module, and add other details to complete the lower part of the tower  

In the same way I did the upper part of the tower  

And then the final dome.

 

This is the result of joining them all. I have use textures from cgtextures, slightly modified to match the real tower.

I am working now on the environment.

Very impressive work, you seem to have captured it very nicely indeed. And, it's nice to see anothers WIP.

Thanks dhama, it seems that we will have some new towers and structures to play with at the end of the challenge, if we upload them at freestuff like bobbystahr sugested.

Quote - Thanks dhama, it seems that we will have some new towers and structures to play with at the end of the challenge, if we upload them at freestuff like bobbystahr sugested.

Indeed. Will certainly make mine available........

Quote - Ok, here it is. complete with textures. I combined the basic foliage MAT which has 'see through' areas and adjusted it to look like plaster, with a stone brick texture from a photograph.
Now all I need is to build a 'tor' to put it on.
If anyone has question on how I created certain parts, if I haven't already covered them, i'd be happy to explain.

Fantastic tower mate...I think, maybe time to stick it in a scene and render for the challenge...I'm impressed with the process and the product... ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Quote -
This is the result of joining them all.
I have use textures from cgtextures, slightly modified to match the real tower.

I am working now on the environment.

Awesome work...this has the makings of a very impressive challenge. I think when all this is done, we're going to collectively blow a few minds here at R'osity, about Bryce's capabilities...awesome work all...If we're judgeing on this[I forget now what the rules on this one said] it's going to I think, be the toughest one of all.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, rendered a scene for the tower, but where do I upload it, the entry page is no longer showing the upload part.... I assume one can enter more than once as I read somewhere else, has this changed?

Here is the finished scene. Anyone interested in a little background to the subject of this scene, you'll find a lot of info here:

Beauty...a perfect setting for a fine building.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

Dhama: thats a great tower image (*p.s i may have missed this but is your nick connected to the  Tull?)
*jrcejaspulido: thats fantastic - i having been getting ebots so have just casught up with it, looking forward to finish

its going to be so hard to choose - can we not vote for them all?

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Quote - Dhama: thats a great tower image (p.s i may have missed this but is your nick connected to the  Tull?)

The 'Tull'? what is that?

Quote - ....its going to be so hard to choose - can we not vote for them all?

I agree on both counts. ;-)

 Jethro Tull's song "Dhama for One"

That had been in the back of my mind as well but it's a long time since I listen'd t' music...more playin' these last few decades, than listenin' I fear...LOL...not really..happy t' be playin' still.. ...

 

Once in a while I look around,
I see a sound
and try to write it down
Sometimes they come out very soft
Tinkling light sound
The Sun comes up again

 

 

 

 

 

LOL, no. The name comes from my music name Bluedhama... if you do a search you'll find it... some music I created long ago. Feel free to download and listen to it while you work... it's very meditative.

Thanks for the explaination, Jethro!

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WIP.......just ran into a creative brick wall, still have plenty-o-time.

Components weren't very heavy, though a vertically placed volumetric skyplane with IBL lighting almost put this one out of comission.

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ICM: that looks great and very creative.

This time it will be even more difficult to vote only for three, and still waiting for more entries like yours or rj001´s work  :ohmy: