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I also wonder where the final judging thread is, or will it just be added at the end?
Here's what I have at the moment, unless people think there should be changes to it. I was worried about the deadline, but actually with the advance notice it came together fairly well and didn't take a week to render each time, which helps. (That and I have WAY too much free time right now.)
I was inspired to create an alien scene, hence the strange mostly blue plants and other oddities, with the "new beginnings" theme being the stranded spacefarer managing to create a new home here out of very little.
Are the clouds too dark? They started out whiter, but there were washed-out bits that looked odd. I couldn't get a spectacularly good balance between too light, too dark, to thin, weird edges, and layers. I think this is ok, but I'm worried it might not be good enough.
Go ahead and pick it apart. I may or may not agree and change anything, or I might totally agree and make changes.
I don't know, but it's not just you. Sometimes when I hit submit, it just erases what I type and puts me back on a blank screen. (luckily I've gotten into the habit of copying text to the clipboard since the forums occasionally eat my posts in the past, though much less often.) I've seen the login too sometimes, and if I do that, it just gives me an error. I'm just ignoring it and hoping its temporary.
@Sean: Personally, I think the clouds look real good. This coming from a person who has yet to create any worth spit. I suppose you're calling that image Space Family Robinson? It's a really fun looking image with all the bits and pieces.
So far, knock on wood, I've been able to post normally. And I too have begun C/P my posts before submitting.
Login screens, blank boxes, etc etc, and also some cloudflare errors, Yes they are becoming more and more commonplace at the mo, and no one seems totally certain as to what is causing it. It did start for some of us around the same time as the DDoS attacks against SPamhaus, and so made sense that it could maybe be connected, becuase DAZ 3D uses CloudFlare as a caching and back up service, and ClouFlare is helping Spamhaus to cope with the DDoS attacks. At fistst it dod appear to be only affecting users on the European cloud, but it has spread now, so we more uncertain that our original premise may be the right one.
I will remember to put up the Actual entry thread sometime soon, but didn't want to do it too soon, and have it get lost somewhere, as I haven't stickied the challenge.
Stickies tend to get ignored. Plus it gives more of an indication of how things are going if the thread is left to find it's own level in the forum.
No complaints from me! Looks awesome! Very detailed and unique :)
Very creepy sort of "assembly line", but as a render, it's very realistic and well done :)
Simple, but nice! I think the chosen colors for the entire setup are the best part :)
It is easy for a thread to end up somewhere down the line, as fast as new threads are made. When the entry thread for the challenge gets posted it gets posted. No rush on my part.
I've noticed a lot of garbage being picked up by my ISP's spam filter, it had me wondering. Nice to finally understand what's taking place.
@Mr Silus: Thanks. I always try to tell myself to use the KISS principle in many things, landscapes included. For some reason I seem drawn towards that color. It could be I've seen more of that color in the RW than actual granite type mountains. Perhaps with more practice I'll get to the point where I feel real comfortable doing landscapes.
Here's my second WIP. I only started working on it recently, so there's still a lot to do, but this will be the basic gist of it
This actually serves as a connection to my first WIP, since this is right next to the island I made in that scene.
MrSilus, there is a free shipwreck model here http://www.planit3d.com/source/meshes_files/wreck.html which may fit in a bit better.
Thank you!
But I'm not done with the scene yet. I just composed it and will be making many changes, including the ships. They certainly won't stay as they are in the WIP :)
OK, I just happened to know where that wreck was, as I have used it before myself, and free is always a good price.
Indeed :)
Thanks again!
@Mr Silus: For a WIP it still looks good. I'm another one whose friend is anything that's free.
Just trying some scenes and did come up with this.
Very nice! The water/ocean is especially good looking :)
@adbc: Nice results.
Trying my hand at Bryce for the second time. After getting frustrated and putting the program aside I decided to try again. Here is my first WIP as well as only my second render in Bryce ever. All comments welcome.
Glad you are back. Anything specific you were frustrated with we might be able to eliminate the frustration from?
THe globe that is surrounding her, if you use mroe specularity, it would give it more definition, so it looks less flat.
If this is your second render ever, then you're in the right track I would say :)
As was already suggested by chohole, you might want to add a better material to the globe, so that it looks more like glass (unless you weren't looking for that effect).
@ Sean Riesch - Thanks, and honestly it was the whole program just getting used to it's way of doing things I sometimes don't have the best of patience ;-)
@ chohole - thanks that has helped a great deal I am still learning what everything does.
@ MrSilus - Thank you I tried using a glass material on the globe but it made the interior rather dark. But now that I think about it that could be because I didn't change any of the transparency settings :down: yes I am a newbie.
I know what you mean. I had that also in the beginning - it changed the moment I looked at the interface as some sort of an adventure game where there are many treasures hidden.
@JK001: I'm also one of those who got frustrated and left Bryce alone for some time. Decided to give it another try one day, since I was wanting something to do on the computer, and found a lot of tutorials that really helped. David and Horo have several on You Tube that really helped. Plus, I was starting to see results. As to your image, it would also benefit from shadows that would be seen behind the globe base. And if you adjusted the transparency a bit more you could even get light to go through the globe and hit the ground behind the globe. And maybe a different sky to give the scene a brighter look? Unless you want it as shown. But for your second attempt, that's a darn good image.
wip 1
had a quick try. Used a glass mat with a combo of 100% specularity and 35% reflection, trans at 75% and refraction at an index of 100. I was actually quite pleased that I got the reflection on the glass to look as though she had a flare in her hand.
@Pam: Nice results. To me it seems the figure has a bit of transparency. Could that be because of the settings for the globe material?
well I came across this thread and may enter something.
I've been messing around with bryce for years on and off, at least 10 I'd say. I was messing around with it the other day, and this is one of the things I came up with....
not my best work, but it was modeled in hexagon.
@user: That's a pretty image. Love the reflections on the water.
this one's just for fun, but I'll probably bring in some more serious renders when I have the time to work on them in detail.
It's titled...."Let's make some new beginnings baby.....in my pants!"