Just thought I'd pop over to 3d commune to see whats going on, and it's closed down. Shame really as there was a good bunch of people on there, and they had a strong core of Brycers who didn't post here but were never the less very talented.

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

evidently server fees got outta hand...it's a shame, it was a great place for Bryce Mats.

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

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

Maybe they'll stop be here and contribute to our community, to try and put an up side on a down situation.. ...

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

that's a shame..

Great loss for the community of digital art. 
Perhaps the galley has not given the value to Mark's effort. 
Mark dedicated a lot to 3DCommune, lamentable the closing of the activities. 
We waited that the artists of the 3DCommune in the gift with your beautiful works here in Rederosity.

I am sorry that this has happened. I know Mark tried to keep the site open. It came as a shock to all of us.

Ah, man, that does truly suck....!

Contact Me | Gallery | Freestuff | IMDB Credits | Personal Site
"I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now"

Another good site gone.

If someone has the mats with the permission to host them I've got the space to host them.

"Reinstall Windows" is NOT a troubleshooting step.

A shock and a shame. I believe that some of the folks will be posting here at Rendo now. At least I will.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

Welcome Chumly, grab a seat but not the comfy chair!

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

I 2nd orbital's welcome...beware the comfy chair tho.. ...

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks. Is there anywhere I can get a beer around here?

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

You left your beer in the pub didn't you? :p

Hi, I'm a 3DCommune lost one too.

I joined Rendo and 3DCommune about the same time in 1999. There was a big war of personalities going on back then with threads full of bickering that were sometimes quite entertaining to read. I posted art at both places, but gravitated to 3DC and became a moderator and admin. I was also  a member of Renderosity's Cartoon Team for a couple of years at the same time, so I've played on both sides of the fence.

It's sad to see 3DC go and I wish Mark all the best.

This is great that you guys have come over, because I know what valuable assets you are in the Bryce community. Hope you'll stay around and contribute to the community here.

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

Having joined Rosity and the Commune 8 years ago, I made both sites my 3D home, never one over the other, as both sites have helped me being the 3D artist I am today through the critiques and friendships.    Really sad to see it go, I do wish Mark the best too.

Yes, a hearty welcome to our friends from 3DCommune...make yourselves at home.

I joined here at the same time too I think. It was just so big, I was more comfortable over there. And I won't even tell you how long I lurked at 3DC before I ever spoke up. lol
Thanks for the warm welcome ;)

I'm another rat, fleeing the sinking (sunk!) ship. A great shame after all the hard work and comittment from the people at 3dcommune.

"We are all worms, but I believe that I am a glow-worm!"
Winston S. Churchill

Wow, what a loss to see 3DC go down.  Welcome to all the imported artist.  Beware the comfy chair !  This asylum is shepherded by a zealot of the Bryce inquisition. 

That's such a great shame to see such a good site go down.  Whenever I have... had freebies I'd post in 3DCommune, here and Daz3D, it'll feel odd that 3DC is no longer there - a hole in the netiverse.

I do hope those people from 3DCommune who've popped in here stay and join us, Brycing and whatnot.

Welcome to all.

Measure your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)

Fran's Freestuff

http://franontheedge.blogspot.com/

http://www.FranOnTheEdge.com

I hope you all will forgive us 3DC refugees for posting some older images. Last year 3DC did a software change-over and everyone lost their galleries. Most of us had only begun to re-post some of the images when the site went down for good. And so, here we go again.

I would like to tell the Rendo Regulars "thanks" for the welcome that you have extended to us.

~~Mike~~

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

I am another one from the sunken ship :-(
I haven't made my mind up yet, but it looks like this could be the place for me.
At least I see some familiar faces here. :-)

And forget about my nick.
I can't change it without paying, so it has to stay.
I am **Corrie! **

Oh please…we insist. Beguile us with your treasures. If you hadn’t noticed…we love being showered with creativity and eyecandy.  :tt1:

Welcome aboard Peedy.

 

Well,  I am not sure if I can live up to those expctations. ;-P
Thanks for the welcome! :-)
And forget Peedy.
It's Corrie.

Sad to hear of 3DC going down. I always favored their freestuff pages over Rendo’s. The quality and organization of the freestuff section there was much better.

Also.....a grand hello to all the new posters from 3DC. Glad to see you posting here and please,
please join in our monthly Bryce Challenge. The prizes really suck....but we have lots of fun and the recognition and commraderie (spelling?) are great. And once again welcome aboard! 

Aw, thanks!

Is everybody on Renderosity as nice as you  people on this thread??? ;-D

Hi, I'm another orphan!! I'll be here, and thanks to the Bryce members here for their warm welcome;)

Cheers,

H2 

Hiya Harrison ;)

Thank you all brycers here!'
I found out this morning about my comunity's dissapearance...Sigh!

Have been a member for a while, and take no offense, but my heart has been in 3dc. since I got my first comment there from Anita.
but reading the posts here makes me feel like I don't need to look any furthrer, I am joining you guys!
Thanks again for the welcome.
Gabe AKA Kanaa

My store: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?uid=410087

Hi, ascript, It's been a long time.............Hello to all the other orphans too!! Dave, chumly, corrie et al;))

H2 

Hi, Harrison!
Long time no see! :-)

Hi, Kanaa! :-)

Corrie

Nice to see ur here H2!

Hm, why not buy a large hard drive (1 TB, they are cheap) and save everything for rainy days?

For me it sounds bisarre that the owner (Mark) won't save a backup file of everything there (Freebie sections and more)...an extermely sad story; why did he waited for the last moment; he could have sold it to some rich 3D CG guy or put it on Ebay; the site had some possibilities...what a shame; he did a great work there!
Blessings!

Greetings Harrison. It's great to see you here also.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

Hi Joe ,Corrie and kanaa, looks like we've all come home. I think Bryster may need to order more Comfy Chairs:)) 

Thanks Chumly;)) 

The more the merrier.
Welcome to those nice people from the Commune

oooOOOooo... lots of familiar faces here now! Anyone seen Hubert about or have an email addy for him?  

Quote - Hi, I'm another orphan!! I'll be here, and thanks to the Bryce members here for their warm welcome;)

Cheers,

H2 

Harrison I am glad to see that you are here (or anywhere where I can still see your art :) :)  )

Bea,
 I totally second that. I have tried 3 different fish pictures and keep tossing them because Harrison has set the bar so high. I'll never give up though. LOL Thanks H2.
~~Mike~~

---

The difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has it's limits.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

Yes, but now we have to get him to post some of his more recent images :) 

I remember H2's fish image when he posted it... wow was that a while ago!!  And Hubert?... yes it would be nice to see him strollin' in with a beer and sitting in one of those comfy seats!

Hi Bea, great to see you here!! Chumly you remembered the Trout in a Bucket!! Thanks. Joe I posted that image 2 years ago.

Here's some Salmon for Chumly. Flyrod built in Bryce, salmon tex by me. Salmon model by the very generous JTrout.

H2 

There were 1 or 2 others from years before that H2.  I was on a 2 yr hiatas from 06-08 and missed that one... thinking it was the one in the frying pan or cutting board or something, had a lot of light green?... would love to see that one again! 

Joe I've been away from 07 to 09. There's a 3 year gap since our paths have crossed. Great to meet up with you again;)) I'll try and dig up those trout.

H2 

Hey Ron, great to see you. If you're going to dig up trout, there's bound to be some flies buzzing around. Yumm.

Hi all you 3dC guys, I think you'll like it here!

Harrison, another great fish pic. I think my favourite of yours was the one of the fish in a bucket!

Oh...btw, someone seriously needs to explain the comfy chair to you guys..I daren't, just the thought of it makes me crawl into a dark corner and go to my happy place! lol.

Hey Dave, you can help me dig those trout, I know how you love flies!!;) I love frogs legs, I'm sure we can work something out;)

johnyf, thanks for the welcome;)

Count me in as another refugee from 3DC.  I joined 3DC shortly after they opened their site and called it home.  It's nice to see some familar faces!

There are a lot of things worse than dying, being afraid all the time would be one.

My Gallery

Ringbearer your gallery link isn't working properly...just to let you know and welcome.

Thanks Quest, got it fixed now.  I didn't realize it wasn't working.  Thanks for the welcome!

There are a lot of things worse than dying, being afraid all the time would be one.

My Gallery

Awesome Salmon !!! I have spent a small fortune trying for those things. I used to go on charters out through the Golden Gate a mile or so off shore. Lots of fun but no luck.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

Hello friends!

It was a very sad day, to see 3DC shut down. My sympathy and my Best Wishes to Mark! (If somebody around here could forward these personally to him, please. With greetings from Hubert and "Woody".)

Glad to meet many refugees and some of you nice old chaps again, here at R´sity! :)

Actually, I haven´t posted here at R´sity since long. Not since that site war so many years ago. (It being truly Past and forgotten for me, am holding no grudge! Whereas I´d admit anything, only to avoid that Comfy Chair!!!)

... and now excuse me. Gotta blow the dust off from some "Shiny Spheres" (tm,C,R,IHA) for some new and trippy "Hubisms".

But first, my new Bryce image needs to finish. It is still in progress, as you can see! ;)

Hubert

 

"All that we see or fear, is but a Sphere inside a Sphere."     (E. A. Pryce -- Tuesday afternoon, 1845)

WOW, it's great to see you again!
That's a long time, alright! :-D
Waiting for more Hubisms!

CORRIE

Great to have your humor and wisdom here, Hubert.
welcome to the refugee camp.

Great to see you here, Hubert. I have a question, though. Have you had Bryce 1.0 since 1984?

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's
limits.<br />

Nice to see you Hubert!  Did you save that BR1 file to a 5 1/4" floppy!?

Hiya Hubert, good to see you here ;)

Great to see you old man:)).......I see you are still doing shiny spheres, that should keep you in good stead with the Bryster!!

Cheers to cubes,

Ron 

Hubert!! waves All's right with the world now. ;)  

HI Hubert :) 

Hi friends,

glad to read you!! :)

Ya Kids and Youngsters!! 5 1/4" Floppies?? I even remember 8", tape drives and punched cards. I still own my first slide ruler, a log tables book and even a 9 digit "Addimult". (See my link for that, if you really dare! ;)  

hubert-schaefer.com/hubert/temp/photos/Addimult_front__websized-photo.jpg

Now, here is some more about my hyster## ehm historical background:

I never had a Bryce1. That screenshot is a pure fake.

(There exists an according faked screenshot for "ASCII-Poser" too. But I hesitate to post that ehm "extreme" nudity here. No kidding, that certain Poser image then got 1100+ hits in only few weeks here at R´sity!!! Possibly due to my promising thumbnail with fat red text "Extreme Nudity" written all over it. Imho not a true lie... I considered it somehow "extreme", for it being already Poser2 times then.) :)

I started with a Bryce2 -- but did NEVER render with it! I had gotten a Mac version as a surplus NFR package at my company, a software dealer. But I was immediately interested in Bryce and achieved to get a surplus Bryce3D version very soon afterwards, for my PC this time. Not too fast a PC, I might add. But I didn´t render much with it and immediately learned to hate volumetric clouds and nested transparencies for their render times.

Soon later I got a Bryce4 and discovered the "Inside of Shiny Spheres". These abstract images (often quite unexpected results for Bryce) were much quicker to render and much more fun, than doing "land(beep)scapes" in Bryce. Since then, I have a certain ehm reputation for doing that trippy and fun stuff. (Not to mention "Woody" here.).

Besides: I have BR 5.0 and 5.5, but migrated back to Bryce4 asap, for various reasons then.

PS: It was mostly that encouraging feedback at these 3D communities, which really boosted my Bryce activities and many scenes. Thus: thanks to all of you, whom I met over the years!! 

Lately, I hadn´t much time to render and to contribute often. Not even as a "3D Communist". Life and Job became quite demanding. But I´ll see to render and to upload some (new) shiny results here on next weekend.

Oops... sorry for that excessive babbling, but I am so overwhelmed by all these old memories! ;)

Read ya later.

Be Nice to Bryce and Cheers to Spheres,
Hubert

 

"All that we see or fear, is but a Sphere inside a Sphere."     (E. A. Pryce -- Tuesday afternoon, 1845)

Aren't those memories awesome? :-)

Thanks for sharing!

CORRIE

Kind of late to this topic, but I just wanted to extend the welcome to everyone who is a former 3DC member.

My God, we oldtimers are really getting on. Ten years and over as members for many of us.
The snap below could be a reunion photo of some of the 3DCommune refugees.

 

Do any of you remember the picture below, from the 3DCommune Forums?
It is Thanksgiving at the 3DCommune, Someone made a copy of it with arrows indicating how the Turkey was manipulated by hidden wires.

 

ROTFL!
Great pic!

CORRIE

Anyone remember IRONBEAR? Here he is in close-up.

 

You had me almost fooled with the chicken and the wires, than I realised that it was a rendered chicken composited into the shot, with some noise filter to make it blend and look authentic. ;)

I FOUND IT.
HERE IS THE 3DCOMMUNE THANKSGIVING PICTURE WITH THE MEMBERS NAMES FILLED IN.

 

Yes, I remember you Grincho, Groucho, Tim etc!! That was a long time ago. This last image is the one I remember, brings back lots of memories:))

Thanks,

H2 

What ever happened to Yamato. His website has not changed in 3, or 4 years. He had some great freebies for that time.
Also, why has Batlab stop posting new models. I would like a Killy Suit for V4 and A4. by the Bat.

Here are some interview photos with Bat and Yamato taken during the:
"Where in the world is the 3DCommune"
In Japan of course

 

Take a look at this post from years ago.
http://www.renderosity.com/news.php?viewStory=244

 

wow...seeing some interesting stuff in this thread. Makes me flash back to a different time. Welcome to all the 3dc "rats" (said lovingly). I had forgotten the turkey picture from back then.

wow.
...makes me want to dig up the old stuff and add to this trip down memory lane.
BT

 

Hmmm, either the 3DCommune refugees drank Mark's kool-aid, or they went on some hell of a binge New Year's Eve.

 

LOL!
Maybe both???? ;-D

Corrie

The Renderosity Board of Directors begins a New Year. Now we know why there is so much ..... well.... never mind

 

The Renderosity Headquarters Board Meeting ends with revolutionary movements for the New Year. A peek at whats (swirling) coming and then a happy flush all around.
The Board watlzes out of the room to the sounds of the "Radetzky March"

 

Heheheheehe

Hey all you fellow geekos... that's "waltzes" not watlzes"...my spelling is getting worse as I age.
My New Year's request to Renderosity is that they allow unlimited time for editing posts, instead of just a few minutes.
Sometimes we catch a mistake on a post, or would prefer to remove a post that we regretted posting in the first place, but can't do so because the editing time limit has passed.

By the way, here is a photo of Mark, and some fellow 3Dcommuners, making a fast getaway.