Bryce
I rediscovered a program I had used quite heavily back in the day. And the old addiction set in as I dug into it again. I’m talking about a program called Bryce. The current version is 5.5, but I was one of the old-timers using version 2 through 4 of the program when Kai Krause of MetaCreations was still making it… you know, of Kai’s Power Tools fame. I don’t even know who makes it now, but I can get the latest version for $99. I’ll have to think about that…
I don’t think I mentioned Bryce in my previous post because I had forgotten how powerful it is for synthetic scenes. I got it stuck in my head that it could only render beautiful tropical islands. Over the weekend, I relearned what I used to know and somehow pushed way beyond that. The whole thing just made sense to me now where it was kind of a mystery to me before.
Here is a gallery of the stuff I did over the weekend. It’s all cheese, but it was a lot of fun. As a bonus, my kids loved it! My oldest must have clocked 5–6 hours on it at least. Some of his scenes are at the end. Click on any of these to see a larger version.
(my sons and I had loads of fun with this one and the next one. They did all of the cool space sound-effects…)
Here are some of the ones my kids did:
