Speedsters

This image was done for the Renderoisty "Speed" Challenge. Modeled in FormZ except for the X29 plane which is by Platinum Multimedia, the speed boat by os-grafik and M2 from DAZ. The back terrains were exported (as an adaptive mesh) from Bryce and imported into FormZ where I added some vertex extension along the normals and then did a smooth Surface Sub-D. This was exported back into Bryce and with the Copy Matrix command, replaced the original TE terrains, which were then deleted . This gives the terrains some horizontal "bumps" that Bryce's TE can't do.

The water and wake are terrains, water done from a Bryce procedural applied in the TE and the wake was painted in Photoshop.

The comtrail is 3 Volume Visible lights. The clouds are a stack of 5 World Space cloud planes, illuminated by a 10k by 10k BU Square spotlight.

Rendered with Bryce 5 OSX on a 1.8 Gig G4. Render time: about 18 hours @144 RPP and Soft Shadows (except the sun).