Making Bryce Blobs and Swirls: Exposed!
Wednesday, August 6, 2003 by macrobaye | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Ok, I almost didn't do this, at the risk that I'll get lynched for revealing the Bryce-heads "big" secret, but I want all of you to realize how simple it is, so you can make them for yourself. Hopefully this won't result in more Bryce uploads, but if the admins think it will, I give them 100% permission (not like they need it 
) to delete this thread. Ok, in any event, here's how it's done:
1. Create a metaball (if you don't have metaballs, a sphere will do)
2. Make it really big and raise it so that it's not touching the ground.
3. Next apply a silver material to the shape.
4. Now duplicate the object (Ctrl D) and move the new object next to the first metaball (or sphere).
5. Make the new object just as big, but a little longer, like a football shape. Rotate the object along the X axis, so that the end of the football object sticks into the metaball (or sphere).
6. Now create a radial light (the first of the light objects under the "Create" tab. Make the intensity a little lower and apply a color to it (later you can mess around with the intensity and other materials).
7. Duplicate the light (Ctrl D) and move one of them into each of the two objects.
8. Get into the directors or camera view, and move into the objects.
9. NOW FINALLY you start to see it take shape. If things are too dark, or too bright, you can always change the light intensity.
10. Now comes the "hard" part (actually not hard at all, mostly just time consuming). Camera positioning!
11. It will probably take some time to get used to and to find something worthy of rendering and saving, but you will come up with something that looks great sooner or later. You've just gotta play around with the camera, light intensity, and coloring.
CONGRATULATIONS! You've just mastered the art of the Bryce Head!
In the words of the great (and unfortunatly late) Nick Burns:
"Oh yea, one more thing: You're welcome"
) to delete this thread. Ok, in any event, here's how it's done:1. Create a metaball (if you don't have metaballs, a sphere will do)
2. Make it really big and raise it so that it's not touching the ground.
3. Next apply a silver material to the shape.
4. Now duplicate the object (Ctrl D) and move the new object next to the first metaball (or sphere).
5. Make the new object just as big, but a little longer, like a football shape. Rotate the object along the X axis, so that the end of the football object sticks into the metaball (or sphere).
6. Now create a radial light (the first of the light objects under the "Create" tab. Make the intensity a little lower and apply a color to it (later you can mess around with the intensity and other materials).
7. Duplicate the light (Ctrl D) and move one of them into each of the two objects.
8. Get into the directors or camera view, and move into the objects.
9. NOW FINALLY you start to see it take shape. If things are too dark, or too bright, you can always change the light intensity.
10. Now comes the "hard" part (actually not hard at all, mostly just time consuming). Camera positioning!
11. It will probably take some time to get used to and to find something worthy of rendering and saving, but you will come up with something that looks great sooner or later. You've just gotta play around with the camera, light intensity, and coloring.
CONGRATULATIONS! You've just mastered the art of the Bryce Head! In the words of the great (and unfortunatly late) Nick Burns:
"Oh yea, one more thing: You're welcome"
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I.R. Brainiac
Reply #23 Thursday, August 7, 2003 11:01 AM
Reply #23 Thursday, August 7, 2003 11:01 AM
I.R. Brainiac hopes someone will explain how to use the quote button.
Green Armani
Reply #24 Thursday, August 7, 2003 11:04 AM
Highlight the text you want to quote and then click on the "Q" for that comment thread....it should show up in your message box...you can type your own text before or after any quote
Reply #24 Thursday, August 7, 2003 11:04 AM
| #23 by Skinner I.R. Brainiac - 8/7/2003 11:01:38 AM I.R. Brainiac hopes someone will explain how to use the quote button. |
Highlight the text you want to quote and then click on the "Q" for that comment thread....it should show up in your message box...you can type your own text before or after any quote
LadyWolf
Reply #25 Thursday, August 7, 2003 11:09 AM
Reply #25 Thursday, August 7, 2003 11:09 AM
Thank you macrobaye for insulting every wall I've ever made and adding another name that someone can call me, i.e. "no-talent ass-clowns." I feel much better knowing that I have no talent, and coming from you, it means everything.
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #26 Thursday, August 7, 2003 2:38 PM
Reply #26 Thursday, August 7, 2003 2:38 PM
And thank you Lady Wolf for having the class not to upload 10 different versions of the same work.You are one of the GOOD ones.I have your amberglow on my desktop now. 
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #27 Thursday, August 7, 2003 2:45 PM
Thanks Green Armani.
Reply #27 Thursday, August 7, 2003 2:45 PM
| 24 by Sir Green Armani - 8/7/2003 11:04:37 AM #23 by Skinner I.R. Brainiac - 8/7/2003 11:01:38 AM I.R. Brainiac hopes someone will explain how to use the quote button. Highlight the text you want to quote and then click on the "Q" for that comment thread....it should show up in your message box...you can type your own text before or after any quote |
Thanks Green Armani.
Apocalypse_67
Reply #29 Thursday, August 7, 2003 3:42 PM
Reply #29 Thursday, August 7, 2003 3:42 PM
This would have been a great post if it was intended as a small tutorial. But the intention of it it's just to create turmoil and in the process, offend a large group of people.
Macrobaye, while some of your work is good, it’s really nothing more complex than what you are trying to reveal with this post.
GA has come to master the so 'simple' technique you speak of. And if you would have been here long enough or had bothered to scroll thru the message board, you would know that GA beat you to a tutorial post in how to create this type of designs. I believe the thread is call ‘Bryce 101’
So the “big” secret you speak of has long been revealed.
If you really want to be helpful, try to post things that actually HELPS
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Macrobaye, while some of your work is good, it’s really nothing more complex than what you are trying to reveal with this post.
GA has come to master the so 'simple' technique you speak of. And if you would have been here long enough or had bothered to scroll thru the message board, you would know that GA beat you to a tutorial post in how to create this type of designs. I believe the thread is call ‘Bryce 101’
So the “big” secret you speak of has long been revealed.
If you really want to be helpful, try to post things that actually HELPS
[Message Edited]
Apocalypse_67
Reply #30 Thursday, August 7, 2003 3:43 PM
Reply #30 Thursday, August 7, 2003 3:43 PM
Apocalypse_67 says: so this is how its done 
Thank you for revealing this "BIG" secret to me.
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Thank you for revealing this "BIG" secret to me.
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DaWebMassa
Reply #31 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:23 PM
Apocolypse... I respect you and your work but I disagree. The Bryce 101 tutorial was posted at the height of our fight to have some of the blob and swirlie walls moderated thus I feel that post was made to anger some people. In effect the poster was saying, "People are fighting this trend so I think I'll post a tutorial so more people will create them."
I believe Macrobayes intentions were to show how easy it is for even someone with no "talent" to create something in Bryce and call it a wallpaper.
Both posts seem to be a sort of an "In your face" kind of thing.
No disrespect to anyone intended but those are my feelings.
Reply #31 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:23 PM
| But the intention of it it's just to create turmoil and in the process, offend a large group of people. |
Apocolypse... I respect you and your work but I disagree. The Bryce 101 tutorial was posted at the height of our fight to have some of the blob and swirlie walls moderated thus I feel that post was made to anger some people. In effect the poster was saying, "People are fighting this trend so I think I'll post a tutorial so more people will create them."
I believe Macrobayes intentions were to show how easy it is for even someone with no "talent" to create something in Bryce and call it a wallpaper.
Both posts seem to be a sort of an "In your face" kind of thing.
No disrespect to anyone intended but those are my feelings.
macrobaye
Reply #32 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:46 PM
Reply #32 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:46 PM
how can all of you say that? he made the personal attack at ME! I was just responding to that! i can't belieev i'm getting called off for defending myself.
macrobaye
Reply #33 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:47 PM
Reply #33 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:47 PM
And screw you braniac, calling ME a loser, as you just did, is a personal attack on me, so stop being such a hypocrit!
macrobaye
Reply #34 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:51 PM
Reply #34 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:51 PM
I hope you all realize that I am not a person who attacks people for no reason. I think Armani is a good artist, but he has attacked me many times, in this thread and in the comments section of his walls. I was simply defending myself, something that has nothing to do with "class" as IR Braniac put it.
And I'm sorry braniac for my afore stated comment, I was again only defending myself at your blatent attempt to put me down, something which I will not stand for.
And I'm sorry braniac for my afore stated comment, I was again only defending myself at your blatent attempt to put me down, something which I will not stand for.
macrobaye
Reply #35 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:56 PM
Reply #35 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:56 PM
As I stated before, I respect every artist on here, because it takes effort to create the work that get uploaded. And again, Brainiac, you make a personal attack on me. I hope everyone here sees how Brainiac is. I'm sorry, but I meant for this post to show how easy it is to create something like the work that gets uploaded.
LadyWolf, I'm sorry if I offended you. I like your work very much, and the reason I said "no-talent ass clown" is because, well for one I just watched Office Space, and secondly I was mad that Green Armani made a personal attack on me.
Brainiac, please stop this derogatory nonsense. Lets be friends, I was making a general reference to the bryce work, not to anyone's in general.
LadyWolf, I'm sorry if I offended you. I like your work very much, and the reason I said "no-talent ass clown" is because, well for one I just watched Office Space, and secondly I was mad that Green Armani made a personal attack on me.
Brainiac, please stop this derogatory nonsense. Lets be friends, I was making a general reference to the bryce work, not to anyone's in general.
Jafo
Reply #36 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:58 PM
Reply #36 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:58 PM
No-one wins with personal attacks.....just remember that and we'll all get along...
macrobaye
Reply #37 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:59 PM
Reply #37 Thursday, August 7, 2003 4:59 PM
I hope you were saying that in general Jafo, because I only made the negative comments towards Green Armani and I.R. Brainiac in retaliation to their personal attacks on me.
hashonboat
Reply #38 Thursday, August 7, 2003 5:04 PM
Reply #38 Thursday, August 7, 2003 5:04 PM
/ me hasonboat tries the colored text thing while watching another melodrama, which hashonboat has no opinion of.
Hash asks: How do you end the red text thingy?
Hash asks: How do you end the red text thingy?
hashonboat
Reply #39 Thursday, August 7, 2003 5:08 PM
Pretend Hashonboat is an Indiana redneck.
hashonboat actually spent 30 yrs in L.A. but thinks the redneck has rubbed on.
Oh! Now I get it! duhr!
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Reply #39 Thursday, August 7, 2003 5:08 PM
| type"/" me without the quotation marks |
Pretend Hashonboat is an Indiana redneck.
hashonboat actually spent 30 yrs in L.A. but thinks the redneck has rubbed on.
Oh! Now I get it! duhr!
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Reply #21 Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:43 AM
Seriously though, as I've said before, some Bryce works come out cool. However, there are far too many that look like CBB's
And as was said Macrobaye, you lose credibility when personal attacks are made. Let's stick to referring to the type of so-called "art" not the artists.