Présentation de l'éditeur
Corel's Bryce 4 puts the power to create breathtakingly realistic three-dimensional worlds at your fingertips. Mountains, plains, oceans, and abstract landscapes spring to life with incredibly detailed natural textures, special effects, and animation. Home users and professional animators alike choose Bryce for its ease of use, reasonable price, and fabulous results. Real World Bryce 4 is the natural choice for those who want to exploit the limitless artistic potential of the program.
Taking up where the manual leaves off, Real World Bryce 4 covers all the program's features, including the little-documented Deep Texture Editor, the heart of Bryce's natural-looking textures. The industrial-strength tips and techniques address your day-to-day production needs, giving you the best working approach for getting the most out of Bryce. Updated from the previous award-winning edition, the book features stunning full-color illustrations and a CD-ROM of samples, tutorial files, and a gallery of 3D artwork.
Quatrième de couverture
Corel Bryce 4 is unique among digital graphics applications for its special focus on landscape generation and atmospheric effects combined with an intuitive interface. With this latest version, digital artists can produce ever more realistic (and surrealistic) scenes�??all that users need is the definitive documentation. This third edition of the award-winning guide to Bryce covers all the improvements in versions 3 and 4, including animation, new volume materials, Sky Lab, and substantially upgraded import and export capabilities. Packed with detailed tutorials, instructive and beautiful illustrations, and comprehensive practical advice, Real World Bryce 4 also includes a CD-ROM offering QuickTime movies and step-by-step explorations of the book�??s gorgeous images. Readers can also find additional information and Bryce updates on the book�??s companion Web site: www.auntialias.com/rwb4.
- Start from the absolute beginning with a thorough tour of Bryce, and move through its most powerful and complex features.
- Follow step-by-step instructions for constructing scenes, objects, materials, movies, and more.
- Create natural-looking landscapes, including mountains, hoodoos, waterfalls, canyons, and whole planets.
- Explore the elements of the Bryce interface, all its Palettes, Labs, and Editors.
- Use the new Sky Lab to add realism to clouds, shadows, fog, rainbows, and comets.
- Master the intricacies of Bryce 4�??s animation features to bring your world to life.
"Real World Bryce 4 is a must-have book for anyone who uses Bryce or wants to see how computer manuals should be written."
�??Charles Fleischer, Entertainment Technologist
"During development of Bryce 3D and 4, there was only one source for determining how Bryce �??should�?? work! You guessed it�??we used Real World Bryce 2!"
�??Brian Wagner, Bryce 4 Lead Engineer
