A Sampling of Bryce 3D Work published in 3D Artist
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3D Artist#33 (issue supplement coming) Wonder what you could do in a Bryce scene consisting of 2,426 objects and more than 1-1/2 million polygons? Bill Munns resurrected one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the great Pharos Lighthouse on the Nile Delta at Alexandria, Egypt. Details about how this was done with a 166MHz 128Mb PC fill three pages in the issue, and additional info soon will be be put online here. [wireframe (37K JPEG)] |
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The Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt
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3D Artist#32 issue supplement Bill Munns did two articles in this issue. One showed how to make trees and do lattice work in Bryce 3D 3.0, demonstrated by the image "Seaside Veranda." The other article was an opinion piece defending Bryce's approach to computer graphics, an article which arrived buttressed by a virtuoso display of imagery. "Old Courtyard" was one of three images that ran with the article, which made these key points about 3D applications: > Bryce may not be intuitive if your background includes extensive experience in the mechanical and operational procedures of computers in general. But, if your background is artistic, it is splendidly intuitive, efficient, and refreshing. It is elegantly designed to let you very quickly master the tool use so you can get on with the business of being an artist. > "Real world" results are what an artist can actually accomplish in a given application, and how quickly an artist can go from zero to proficiency with learning a new tool. If you're only 1% proficient in a software with 10,000 features, and you're 25% proficient in a "lesser" software with perhaps 2,000 features, the reality is that you are more proficient in the supposedly "lesser" application. You can accomplish more productive work.
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"Seaside Veranda" "Old Courtyard Lit" 
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Bill Munns has come recently to computer graphics, adding to a long list of credits for physical creature sculpture for museums, theme parks, and Hollywood. For instance, he has done hairwork and prosthetics for real chimpanzees in the hilarious TBS parodies of famous movies. His award-winning wildlife re-creation exhibits have shown both contemporary and extinct animals. Recent work includes a sculpture of "Lucy," our 3.25 million year old ancestor, that stands in the French National Museum of Natural History, the San Diego Musueum of Man, and the Archeon theme park in the Netherlands. Postscript: Several months after writing for the above issues of 3D Artist, Bill Munns was hired by MetaCreations to complete a series of massive Bryce scenes for promotional purposes. We will have more of his writing in upcoming issues about how he does this work. See a list of Bill Munns' articles in the 3D Artist Comprehensive Index. |
System used for these images: Single Pentium II 166MHz CPU with 128Mb RAM, running Windows 95. You can reach Bill Munns at <wmunns@gte.net> or visit his new Web site at www.munnsgallery.com |