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Bryce For Animation? Yes! Book "Real World Bryce"

Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235
edited December 1969 in Art Studio

The topic of animation in Bryce came up here recently, and while I haven't used Bryce in a long time, I do remember when it first added animation (Bryce 3 I think). And at one point I was using it frequently to do animation, since it had some very nice features. The book "Real World Bryce 4" by Kitchens & Gavenda in 2000 is excellent overall, and has some great tips on animation in Bryce. It sounds old, but I think its still one of the best 3D animation books ever.

Chapter 14 is "The Fourth Dimension: Time and Animation", and Chapter 15 is "Advanced Animation Techniques". Together they total about 200 pages of a thousand page book. The book also has a CD with elements you can use directly in Bryce, e.g. some camera motion paths that are truly eye popping, e.g. putting the camera on a (virtual) jointed crane for a wild ride. Amazon has some new copies starting at a little over $20 (of thirty reviews, 22 are 5 star out of 5) (the list price on the back of the book is $55):

http://tinyurl.com/kg2mk8w

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  • Francis TaylorFrancis Taylor Posts: 84
    edited December 1969

    All Bryce 7. No postwork.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz44MsNJ6lc

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88mS769olMs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqh9hcFDpoE

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235
    edited December 1969

    Right! That's what I'm talking about! :coolcheese:

    Very nicely done, I especially like the train test, very spooky and Halloween is coming up ...

    Not sure about character animation in Bryce, I recall doing that with Poser years ago then compositing. I do see this in the specs:

    Import Animations from DAZ Studio

    So with Bryce @ $20 and DS free, one should be able to do pretty much anything animation wise?

    I'm staying with Carrara, but for those who just want to try their hand, sounds like a good deal.

  • Francis TaylorFrancis Taylor Posts: 84
    edited October 2013

    Im loking into getting Carrara. I'm gonna start animating my characters from my The Land of Forever project. Its an official Peter Pan story approved by the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

    These are some renders from the project

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,235
    edited December 1969

    fran444 said:
    Im loking into getting Carrara. I'm gonna start animating my characters from my The Land of Forever project. Its an official Peter Pan story approved by the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

    These are some renders from the project

    The renders look very good, sounds like an interesting project. My favorite humor author, Dave Barry, co-authored a book titled "Peter and the Starcatchers", a prequel to Peter Pan:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Starcatchers

    Its a children's book, I haven't read it, but its been pretty successful, with a Broadway play already done and a movie on the way.

    I really enjoy working in Carrara Pro 8.1, since I just want to use purchased elements to create short animations. I.e. no modelling, no detailed development of elements, just "directing". I have a vast collection of Poser type content, almost all of which loads directly and works seamlessly in Carrara. I think you'll like it.

    One feature in particular comes to mind looking at your renders,the "shadow catcher". With a pre-rendered backdrop, a character can be animated with a simple primitive behind it which shows shadows only. E.g. say its a render of a building wall as a backdrop, a simple plane can be placed behind the animated character in the position where the wall appears to be, then the plane animates only the shadow of the character. So it looks like the character and the wall are in the same render, but it saves having to re-render the wall (which may be very elaborate and slow rendering) for every frame.

    BTW, I checked on the Great Ormond Street Hospital, learning its in the Bloomsbury area of London. My wife & I stayed in that area on vacation years ago, very enjoyable. Not a luxury hotel, but more than adequate since we just slept there (and got a great English breakfast!). King's Cross/St. Pancras was a highlight for us freeway travelling Americans.
    :wow:

  • Francis TaylorFrancis Taylor Posts: 84
    edited October 2013

    That's really cool. I am familiar with all of the Peter Pan novelizations. This story The Land of Forever takes place after the book Peter Pan in Scarlet, making it the latest story in the timeline, or the most recent events in the Peter Pan story cannon.

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  • cyborgty_074ff6c243cyborgty_074ff6c243 Posts: 132
    edited December 1969

    Nice renders Fran444. Did you or your project team use Bryce to create these?

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