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LGR - Making My Own Trapper Keeper Art in Bryce 3D
🕑 Added 2023-02-15 23:08:04 +0000 UTCGot a different one for y’all this time! This episode is all about Bryce 3D from 1997, a classic computer program letting you quickly create surreal ray traced imagery on your Mac or PC. It always makes me think of Trapper Keeper artwork from that specific era in the 90s, when school binders and folders were covered in shiny computer-generated shapes and weird sci-fi cities and things. So I figured that was a fun framing device to cover the Bryce application itself, something I’ve been wanting to do for years now.
And that’s that! There likely won’t be a video next week as I’m headed outta town here soon. Or if there is one, it’ll be a brief/simpler video that I record while I’m away. Depends on how things go, there are still unknowns at the moment. Anyway, take care and I hope you enjoy all those 90s-lookin‘ 3D renders!
Comments
Cyclone
Been using this as my phone wallpaper. I used to love playing with Bryce 3D back in middle school. Whenever I'd get a new PC, I'd use it as a benchmark basically to see how much faster it was.
Paul Butterworth
Loved this program - completely forgot the name of it until I saw this video. I actually used this quite a lot in my GCSEs at school. I used it wherever possible as I loved 3D modelling at the time (1998-1999) and I remember using it for science class to create the diagrams, though my teachers were less impressed. But I loved how easy it was to create glass textures for my beaker and added realistic water inside with accurate reflections and refractions. I also did an electronics project design with it too. Sadly I don't have any of these now :( Thank you for the great nostalgic memories Clint <3
Adult Sword Owner
I don't know how I missed that, thank you!
LGR
The renders are linked in the video description on the public YouTube page :)
Adult Sword Owner
Please post the 40 mb BMP, I want to get it professionally printed
JennaKay
I learned Bryce 4 in some after school classes back in middle school in a big lab of Macs. Dragging zip disks back and forth from the class because my dad spoiled me with a copy for the PC. Even compared to other stuff in its era, Bryce rendered dang slow.Even though it isn't really updated anymore, I'm glad it's still available, and I have version 7. This stuff gave me a deep love of that organic looking soft Krausian design language. I'd kill for a mobile phone experience using that.
Paul G
Thanks for another great episode, Clint! This one really brought me back to my computer-lab days in high school, when I used to play around with software like KPT Bryce, Caligari TruSpace, StrataVision 3D, and (my favorite) 3D Studio R4. Good times.
LGR
Heck yeah, I had a huge folder of DB wallpapers in the 2000s
LGR
That’s a long time favorite of mine!
LGR
Ahh that is excellent. Yeah you could totally make a screen-by-screen adventure game with Bryce
LGR
I’m not sure, but I’d hope so! It would be unbearable to be stuck with a single core for the higher resolutions Bryce 7 is designed for :)
LGR
Wow I can only imagine. Still would’ve been great to play with it for free!
LGR
No kidding! I knew it'd take a good while being single-threaded, but I still thought there'd be more of an improvement going from 1GHz to ~3.7GHz
Tony P
Bryce 3D. Dang, I spent days fooling with that program as a kid.
Kevin Tangney
Great episode. Reminds me of the time I created a 3D spinning logo for our college hockey team in the 90's. Wish I could remember what the name of the software was. If you like 3D rendered art, then look up Digital Blasphemy. I've been using his wallpapers for a long time now.
Sean Corbett
Awesome, reminds me of "Beyond the Mind's Eye" which I had on VHS and watched all the time. (Even recorded the music onto a cassette so I could listen on the boom box in my room)
stynx
Nice Video, thanks! 3 weeks ago i had uploaded some panorama pictures from around 1997 that my brother made in Bryce 2 on the Mac. youtube.com/watch?v=7HDrGndCJiU
Richard Burgess
Wow, a wee nostalgia trip for me, I remember running this on my Pentium 60Mhz computer. The render time wasn't that bad, just to render a single frame in Toy Story if I remember correctly took around four hours with a lot better hardware, so we can give Bryce a pass. Very well-written software for the time, wonder if the later versions ever utilized additional cores?
Tim Boobyer
I definitely remember messing about with a copy of this (or possibly an earlier version) that came on a magazine cover disk. Renders were pretty slow on my 486 DX2/66!
Steve Lovelace
It kind of blew my mind seeing it run on a Threadripper. I was expecting the render to take a few milliseconds! I hadn't though about how modern computers are different in terms of multithreading!
