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LGR - Making My Own Trapper Keeper Art in Bryce 3D (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-15 23:08:04
Imported:
2023-02

Content

https://youtu.be/EGIwcPA1_34

Got 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!

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Bryce 3D: Making Surreal Trapper Keeper/DnB Art on Windows 95

A retrospective on Bryce 3D from 1997, a classic program letting you quickly create surreal ray traced imagery on your computer. It always makes me think of 90s Trapper Keepers, when school binders and folders were covered in shiny CGI shapes. It's also how lots of jungle/drum & bass artwork is made! Let's create a tribute to that style of art using Bryce for PC. ● LGR links: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Here are the 3D rendered images made in this video: https://archive.org/details/lgr-bryce-3d-renders ● All background music licensed from: http://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00 Ray Tracing in the 1990s 00:22 Trapper Keeper art 01:02 Bryce 3D for Win9x and Macintosh 03:01 Expensive, but not '3D Studio Max expensive' 04:47 The legendary Kai Krause 05:52 Experimenting with the software 06:11 The documentation is LARGE 06:59 Setting up a new scene 07:23 The user interface 07:48 Making 3D weirdness 11:17 Rendering artwork... slowly 12:29 Rendering on a Threadripper 13:47 Animation and keyframes 14:51 Bryce - It's still awesome #LGR #retro #software

Comments

Anonymous

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!

Anonymous

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!

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?

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

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)

Anonymous

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.

Tony P

Bryce 3D. Dang, I spent days fooling with that program as a kid.

LazyGameReviews
>>102014424

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

LazyGameReviews
>>102029827

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 :)

Anonymous

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.

Anonymous

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.

Anonymous

Please post the 40 mb BMP, I want to get it professionally printed

Anonymous (edited)

Comment edits

2023-03-05 07:32:49 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
2023-02-25 18:50:32 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

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

Anonymous

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.