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"Desert Mirage" by Lynette Watters

SciFi/Fantasy Picture 1 out of 13 by Lynette Watters

SciFi and Fantasy Art Desert Mirage by Lynette Watters


	Arabian Nights Fantasy. Playing around with Bryce, I was attempting to create a scene that looked fairly realistic, but which had a fairytale feel to it. I spent AGES getting those onion bulbs right for the towers (now of course, with the new version of Bryce it would take a couple of clicks!). Very little postwork in Photoshop, just blurring out a few bits and pieces.

Date	Name	Comment
11 Sep 2002	Lev Aleshin 'Leo'	Loading... Eee i dont play this way! Raytracing, on a tumbnail like morebetter
4 Jan 2003	Anonymous	Loading... Spiffingly wonderfull!!!
24 Apr 2003	Anonymous	Loading... ooooooooooooooooooo prrrrrrreeeeeeeeeetttttyyyyyyy. I like a whole lot
15 Jul 2003	Caleigh	Loading... What's with these comments? It must be terribly disapointing to spend -ages- on a picture and then get ridiculous comments as above. As for the onion bulbs, they really are the highlight of the picture---that is, they are fantastic. And well done on the realistic feel... now if there were only an Arabian Prince on the scene...
19 Jul 2003	Blackwolf	Loading... A person? In bryce? Your joking.... Actually for work this good i would suggest upgrading to a 'real' 3d program such as 3dsmax 4.2 or maya. I like thise tho, except for a few bryce steriotypical effects Lynette Watters replies: "What are the stereotypical Bryce effects? When I did this I couldn't get my Poser figures into Bryce no matter what I tried, so when I needed them I put them in with Photoshop - not the best solution."
24 Sep 2003	Emma Jacobson	Loading... I wanna be there! It looks warm...and luxurious. Quite different from the place I'm in now. (school, sigh!) yup, and the onion bulbs looks great.
13 Oct 2003	Emilie L van der Hoorn	Loading... Ohh, very nice...Yay bryce!! This is great, must have taken forever to get all the details, love the door and window frames. Anyhoo, a question: How did you get the bulbs too look like that...I can never seem to alter shapes so i'm allways stuck with the basic circle square thing...Help help help! Lynette Watters replies: "Hello. The bulbs took a while - what I did was (from memory - may not be exact) take a sphere set to positive, a long stretched out cone set to positive on top of the sphere, grouped and set the group to positive. Then I took a torus, set to negative and made it a LOT larger than the sphere and cone group, and edited its attributes so that the innder hole of the torus was quite small, and grouped it with the positive sphere-cone group. Get it? Than I did a lot of moving and resizing of the individual components to get it nice and smooth. The doors and windows are that same bulb grouping, set to intersect with a cube so that only a slice of the bulb appears. What I suggest is for you to have a look at a few of the boolean objects that come with Bryce in the "Create" menu, and see how they're put together to get a feel for making mor unusual shapes out of the standard sphere, cube, cone, etc."
9 Nov 2003	Anonymous <voyager@har...au&g	Loading... And to think I had no idea that you were such a talented fantasy artist! Nicely done, Lynette!
6 Nov 2007	Anonymous	Loading... Very nice. I can see this place being the summer retreat of an Emir or Shah - very good feel to it. The domes are nice, but more Russian in nature than Arabic.
7 Feb 2008	Saskia H. Suurling	Loading... Can I live there? It looks so beautiful. Don’t tell me it’s just a ’fata morgana’ and that in truth there is nothing but sand over there.