sun/moon control set at an azimuth of 222.1 and altitude of 33.2 in the ‘Sky lab’ to get the correct lighting angle on the planet surface. Although this appeared to reflect too much surface light at first, once again I knew that I could correct this problem in Photoshop in the final stages.
(see pictures below) The final step in Bryce was to import the spacecraft model and apply a suitable material preset. In this case I used one of my own custom designed presets which gave it the metallic panelled effect. Here are the final 3 stages in the picture design. The first picture shows the saved bitmap picture which was rendered in Bryce (actual size was 1024 x 768) The second picture shows the darkened planet which was achieved using layers and the airbrush in Photoshop. In the last picture a few simple adjustments were made using the brightness and contrast options. A whitish streaking effect was also added to the spacecraft and a little bit of touching up around the cockpit area was carried out. The final touch was to add the blue atmosphere around the planet and some small stars in the background. |
