This notes on the artwork is also a little tutorial: On 3/23/06 Pedrith post an image on the Bryce Forum asking comments and ideas to make his picture better. His post was very inspiring and this is my 20 minutes solution to his "Sword in the Stone" theme. I've used a different approach from Pedrith (in Bryce 4, that I prefer much more than Bryce 5 or 5.5). The trees, the roots and the grass on the bottom of the trees and the stones are made with the terrain editor, with appropriate textures. I've streached very much the "mountains" as they appear as trees logs. The roots are terrain very eroded and stretched. All terrains are just the default Bryce generated, in 1024 grid resolution rotated around the Y axis in various degrees. The stones are standard stones generated by Bryce with appropriate deafalut Bryce texture. The sky is one of the default skyes named "False Down", with Haze at 99 Fog at 3 26 and Sun Control at Azimuth 276,7 Altitude -9. The spotlight on the sword is a Cylinder Light with value 52 and 29. It is very near to the sword. The sword came from Renderosity Free Stuff: it is for Bryce and it is named 'Celtic Sword' by tonylynch (thanks tonylynch!). I've retextured it to add realism on the object. The volumetric light is fake. It is made in Photoshop using the Renderosity Bryce tutorial named 'Short cut atmospherics for Bryce' by orbital (see page 7-8-9). With Photoshop I've add also some glare to improve the atmospere and some minor retouch on the grass just to add more realism. All the operations take me around 15/20 minutes, besides the Bryce reder time. The original render was 864x610 in "AntiAliasing Fine Art" mode and take me no more than 10 minutes. Here is the final result... it pleased me very much for a 20 minutes effort! BTW: writing the description of my Bryce procedures take me more time than do the artwork itself (perhaps just because English is not my mother language)... :)