Attached Link: http://www.sleepingwiththelion.com/project.html

Step right up and take a shot! I've been spreading my self-valued opinion all over the forums for a while and thought I should finally get something in the galleries so someone can take a crack at me. There are three pictures from some previz boards I did using Bryce4, Poser4, and Painter6. There's a link to more pictures from that project.

Excellent work...how did you create the fire in all the pictures? Looks great!....I love the picture of the house during winter...with the people outside...reminds me of a SWAT game I play on my computer...looks so cool!

Thanks, very much. Because it was a job and not a Bryce challange I wasn't at all careful about mixing medias. So, in the case of the fire (exploding building) it was taking waaay too long to get what I needed only using Bryce so I prerendered volume clouds and composited them in Painter6 and did some paint work on top of it all. Thanks again for checking it out.

Oh what a cool idea...never used painter 6 but I can use it at my school...I may have to try that. You haven't ever seen any toturials for creating fire in the method have you?

Being slightly impatient I don't delve into tutorials too much. Not because I have any lack of need to learn, I'm more apt to hack at my own solution before taking the time to read. As for fire, you'll see a few frames at the above link where I had a wharehouse that was on fire. In painter I had a flame brush (which is just a predifined flame shape) that when used is additive so that as the brush builds up, it tends to get brighter. A lot of paint programs in their effort to emulate paint tend to combine color subractively, which works well when that's what you want. The fire brush in painter must have a corallary in Photoshop. Define your flame shape and paint away using an additive compositing method. As for doing it all in Bryce I've never been completely satisfied with the results. Some textures do a fabulous job but only get you 85% there. Historically, I am a compositor and have no allegience to any one tool. Start with what you like but use whatever you need to make it right. That's an old compositor's motto I just made up. cheers