"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." - Andre Gide
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BIO
I am not Vile! Back in the really old days I used to log on to a BBS with that handle and have never really changed it. Every time I join some online community it still sticks and I have been here at Renderosity since 12/16/1999.
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I am not an artist! Well at least not in the traditional sense at least. Both my Mother and Sister are terrific analog artists but I just never got into the whole paints, canvas and brushes thing. Not that I was terribly bad at it I was just never as good as I wanted to be. I am a perfectionist! Computer art really appealed to me for this reason, my favorite button became the UNDO! I love the way I can save an image and comeback to it at another time and add more or erase mistakes. Or create something so, possibly temporary as a digital image and yet have it be as effective as a masters painting!
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I am too technical! My art does not reflect my moods or expressions most the time but more of my technical abilities (I am working on this though). I mainly use Photoshop, Bryce, (occasionally Poser) and a digital camera.
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I am not my Past! I first started digital art in 1991 with a program called SPASH on a Leading Technologies 286PC. I used to sketch out an image in pencil or pen and then try to recreate it Pixel by frustrating Pixel. I created some amazing images (in my mind they were) of Dinosaurs, Comic characters and Sci-fi. All but one were lost in a computer meltdown, the one that survived I can t seem to recall off of a floppy disk either.
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I am not Brycer! By 1997 I had an Intel Pentium 133 which my Uncle loaned me I believe it had 64MB of Ram and a 1GB hard Drive. And then I met Bryce2 and many a night was spent trying to get that thing to render silly little mountains or spheres all of which as I look back on and think a 4 year old could do better! But I had to learn, I had to render!
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I am not a Master! I think there are few Digital masters out there and they know who they are! I try as hard as I can to copy or pay homage to their accomplishments. I think, that I and others have made Bryce do things it was never intended or dreamed of being able to do. I now see people doing stuff I had not even dreamed of.
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One final thought! I Say Let me never be whole! I Say May I never be satisfied! I Say Deliver me from Japanese Robots! I Say Deliver me from lame Poser Art! I Say Deliver me from bad skin and Perfect Smiles! I Say you don't have to give in and through down your hand!
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And I Say Evolve!
Comments (33)
RBlue
Textures and lighting make the image look real, not neccessarily the complexity of the mesh. And a great example of that, here! Good Bryce work!
prae
Exellent image
skiwillgee
This is indeed fantastic. The reflections on the marble take it over the top.
alltheoriginalnames
I honestly thought that was real. This is hyper realistic. I'm stunned, Excellent freakin work man.
agdink
Dynamite job on this. I agree that the marble and ring came out splendidly. Top notch work!
kimariehere
awesome work !!! wonderful !!
madmaxh
DOF is always a pig to render, but you got this image just right. The ring, table and ground are perfect. Vote!
Incarnadine
Applause!
castaneda
Really, really great work.
Questor4
looks like a real ring, well done
RodsArt
Well done! Love that marble....(and I work with stone every day)
DruidSix
Pfft! Thought I dropped that in the volcano!
sackrat
Outstanding !
LiviaCH
Wow! This is outstanding!! Superbly done! The textures and reflections are wonderfully done!!
miwi
Excellent work!!!!!!!
cshark
Best "One Ring" I've seen.
Graphixa
Absolutely superb photo-realistic image!
FCLittle
This is exceptional....it really does look like a picture, and that is truly difficult when using Bryce...great job!
tom271
beautiful ring and stone
calum5
Cant suggest anything,just really like the way you made this turn out.A few hours,thats the reason I hardly do bryce work anymore.The render do look incredible when set up but the time...Bye cal
wawadave
cool!!!
ascript
Most excellent! ;)
Death_at_Midnight
This is great! The letterings are excellent and that marble is like real!
Orchidman
What can I say that hasn't been said? Perfectly done! Congratulations.
Conniekat8
It's marbelous! Really really marbelous!
AnnieD
Fabulous!!
smiles95
Spot on. Nice job. Great book :).
Diranda
Gorgeous! Extremely photo-realistic. Definitely encourages me to work with Bryce a bit more. Cheers! Julie
featherwitch
That came out just perfect...Awesome work!!! :)
smillinfaces
i love the ring greetz smillinfaces