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Bryce 5 Artificial Lighting for Drama - Introduction

Bryce 5 has wonderful artificial light sources. These are the spot lights, parallel lights and the radial (spherical) lights. They each have a Light Lab to control them, and some features that are available for some are not available for others. For example, the "Edge Softness" control is available for the spot and parallel lights, but not the radial lights.

Bryce 5 offers an amazing amount of control over artificial light, and these light sources can even be given negative value for effects (see Shadow Magic)! With so much power available, we need to explore the components of these light sources to understand them and use them to best advantage.

We'll be using radial lights in our experiments, but the principles we will examine apply to any of the Bryce artificial light sources, or "light objects" as I like to think of them. We'll use our little model from the earlier tutorials and now add dramatic lighting to it. We'll also play with an object's material property: Refraction-- to add shadow depth to our little scene.

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About the Author:

Tim Thompson, author of this (and our other Bryce 5 tutorials) has been working with digital media for 14 years. He started with Bryce when it first appeared and has followed the program through its upgrades to the current version 5. Tim uses Bryce 5 for a multitude of projects, including some of the interesting games on our ClydeSight2.0!, the fun and games cat site, and for the multimedia interaction in our CD-ROM, System 12 Self-Improvement Interactive: Smoke Free! Tim has also been a teacher, having instructed continuing education classes for five years at Boston's Emerson College in desktop publishing and design and Web design classes in the Boston Urban Scholars program. Tim is a man of many talents. He not only creates digital art, but also composes music! ClydeSight Productions is pleased to publish his two albums, Symphonia Felina and Other Musical Masterworks and Forestdale-Tone Poems Inspired by Nature. Of course, Tim designed the covers for both albums! Tim's tutorials and digital art have won him high praise from the prestigious Renderosity.com digital artist's Web site. His tutorials for Bryce 5 have been enjoyed the world over and are used in local schools to augment their curriculum.