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Bryce
Books -- The Bryce 5 Handbook (Graphics Series)
Price: $32.97
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Populate barren landscapes
with far out vegetation; add clouds, sky, fog, or haze to your world;
and learn how to animate environments – these are just some of the
creative possibilities you can explore with Bryce 5.
Bryce 5 has evolved into a powerful 3D tool that combines power and ease
of use and provides beginning to advanced users with a plethora of creative
options.
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Bryce
Books -- Advanced Bryce Creations: Photorealistic 3D Worlds
Price: $26.37
Save: $13.58
See the power of
Bryce come to life as you embark on a creative journey that travels far
beyond the realm of reality. As you work your way through the vast array
of Bryce tools, you'll learn how to create fascinating 3D worlds from
conception to final 3D imagery.
The emphasis throughout the book is on the creation of eight unique projects,
ranging from "The Great Blue-Ice Throne Room" to the "Abode
of the Lizard Masters." Detailed tutorials cover every step of the
creation process, including a variety of ways to use Bryce with other
popular tools. Newer users will find these in-depth tutorials indispensable
as they learn the program, and experienced users will get new ideas on
how to use Bryce's extensive set of tools and techniques.
Whether you are a
3D designer, artist, movie-maker, game designer, or comic book designer,
you'll find fresh ideas and techniques to use in your own 3D world creations.
About the CD: CD (Win/Mac) includes the complete tutorial files for all
8 projects, all of the book's images in full color, and some movie files
to illustrate how Bryce handles animation. Key Features - Covers Bryce
versions 4.1 and higher - Includes 8 complete 3D worlds - Explains how
to use Bryce as a high-end, professional illustration tool in conjunction
with other powerful programs including KPT, Photoshop, and Poser. - Teaches
3D scene composition and lighting in new ways - Presents digital artists
with new ways of illustrating stories - Shows users how to create all
types of environments and worlds from photorealstic to complete fantasy!
- Demonstrates the use of a variety of elemental effects for creating
new worlds
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Bryce
Books -- Bryce 5 VTC Training CD
Price: $84.96
Save: $14.99
Whether you're a
pro or a beginning artist, Bryce(r) 5 is an easy way to create, explore
and animate extraordinary imagery. It's perfect for multimedia, video
and the Web.
Virtual Training Company makes learning the most challenging software
easier. Open the program you want to learn. Open your VTC training CD.
A friendly expert takes you smoothly from the basics of the program through
every single feature. It's simple to apply what your learning as you go.
Need help in the middle of a project? You can quickly search the subject, and within seconds an expert is showing exactly what you need to know.
VTC makes it possible for you to become an expert in far less time, at a much lower cost, than any other form of training.
VTC...The Tutor in
Your Computer!
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Bryce
Books - Real World Bryce 4: Industrial-Strength 3D World Creation Techniques
(With CD-ROM).
Price: $50.54
Save: $4.45
Bryce, thanks mostly
to its unique user interface, always elicits a powerful reaction from
users--sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but rarely indifferent.
What can't be denied, though, is the amazing quality and variety of images
that Bryce can produce in the hands of an experienced user. The problem,
then, is acquiring that experience.
Real World Bryce 4 is a massive and insightful tome that manages to pierce
through that obscure and uncommon interface and reveal the power of the
underlying tool. Written by a pair of veteran Bryce users and seasoned
writers, this book is the source of that sought-after experience--a virtual
fountain of information from which to drink deeply.
Bryce 4 is a rich and varied program, with options and controls over just about everything, and the 17 chapters and nearly 1,000 pages of text reflect this. Starting with a brief history of 3-D graphics, and a history of Bryce, the authors take us step by step through the program, from interface basics through modeling, texturing, and rendering.
There is much more
to Bryce than meets the eye (if you can believe that). Chapter 5 is dedicated
to streamlining and optimizing the interface and the workflow, from display
controls to batch management to setting up your default scene. Complex
modeling using Booleans, multiple objects, terrains, and lattices is covered
in chapters 7 and 8.
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Bryce
Books -- Bryce 4 F/X and Design : Discover What's Behind the Coolest Effects
from a Respected Bryce Professional
Price: $49.99
32 full-color pages
of ethereal, sci-fi, and Dali-esque 3D backgrounds and imagery (also on
the accompanying CD) that caters to Bryce users who want to create unusual
artwork. The only book to cover handshaking with MetaCreations' Poser,
Ray Dream, and Painter. Unlike competing titles ,Bryce 4 f/x and design
will cover film and video techniques and will teach the complexity of
the software in an approachable, easy-to-follow manner. Delves into the
secrets of the Deep Texture Editor and fine-tunes all of the new materials
made possible in the Materials Lab.
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