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how this works in a dramatic scene-- a room with a fireplace!
The five small tutorials in Bryce Lighting FX1 explore Bryce 5 lighting effects to give your scenes visual drama. Understanding the use of lighting makes the difference between an image that is "flat" and one that is "alive with interest"! The power of Bryce 5 lighting is impressive, but some of the concepts can be a bit puzzling. The Bryce 5 manual is filled with detailed and important information about how this amazingly powerful and flexible program works with light. Being a manual, it is a starting off point. It doesn't have experiments or little tricks and tips.
These tutorials use simple Bryce 5 scenes and experiments to expand on the knowledge the manual provides. As you work with the experiments and explanations, that great "AHA" can come to you, and then your understanding and use of Bryce 5 will improve dramatically!
Although these tutorials are for Bryce 5, they may work for Bryce 4, and the principles are universal to the way Bryce illuminates scenes. The tutorials are aimed at helping you understand the principles of Bryce 5 lighting and experiment with it, rather than making a specific scene. When you have a good grasp of the principles, you can use your imagination and creativity to put them to use for almost any scene you can dream.
Bryce Lighting FX1 is linear and progressive. It contains five tutorials, each new one building on the last. The complexity is kept as simple as possible, but the possibilities multiply as you progress. The tutorials come in two versions: browser friendly pages (which contain images) and printer friendly pages (all text, no images). I suggest that you read the browser friendly pages (to see the images that illustrate the concepts), then the print the printer friendly pages. With a printed copy of the tutorial(s) you can open Bryce 5 and work with the program much like following a guide or walkthrough for a computer game. And it's much easier than switching between applications!
Start with the Bryce Sun. This very important "ambient light" source can prove extremely valuable in dramatically lighting scenes. Everything in Bryce Lighting FX1 follows from this tutorial, and the model you start there will be used and expanded throughout.
Enjoy!
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.
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