Hello all,

First time posting. I built the Brachacki Console Room using Bryce 7 Pro according to the plans found on this very website (big thanks to Tony Farrell).

I hope to use this model for an animated guide to the console room to upload on my YouTube channel (Clever Dick Films) at some point but I'm still getting the hang of the camera movement. I decided to go with what the console room was intended to be coloured as rather than the green to seem white on the B&W cameras.

Here are some of the renders so far. Let me know what you think!

Now that looks great! I love it when some on builds the room in white, in my head this is the real colour scheme for the room...

Quote from: rcarrier on May 03, 2020, 08:31 pm
Here are some of the renders so far. Let me know what you think!

The planet Quinnis, of the fourth universe!

Quote from: rcarrier on May 03, 2020, 08:31 pm

I do like the way you've lit the set and -  by creating an extra 3D wall - how you've managed to create a full-enclosed complete Brachacki interior.

T

I was amused by your choice of using the photo roundel walls instead of going with 3D roundels on all the walls.  It's interesting, seeing how everyone interprets "their" TARDIS. 

Quote from: Tony Farrell on May 04, 2020, 12:10 am

Quote from: rcarrier on May 03, 2020, 08:31 pm

I do like the way you've lit the set and -  by creating an extra 3D wall - how you've managed to create a full-enclosed complete Brachacki interior.

T

Thanks! The lighting was tricky to get looking okay, especially with all the reflective surfaces. I've tried to match the look when Ian and Barbara first enter. I want add the living quarters at some point and I'm tempted to change the section between the main and inner doors to the alcove seen in 'The Web Planet' but I quite the like the symmetry of the 3D walls. Plus, I don't want to make it too much more complicated; it's already made up of 7298 objects!

Another couple of renders. This time of the console in the room and the fault locator/computer banks.

Another addition to the console room: now with external doors and with a correction to the main light's height.

Bird's eye view of the extended set with living quarters. I've taken some artistic license with the added doors beyond the living quarters but I think it works with the aesthetic.

Although I was happy with my original build using Bryce, I was starting to get frustrated by the long render times for low resolution owing to Bryce's somewhat outdated render engine. I've been learning Blender as a result, to achieve more photorealism and higher quality images. This is what I've built over the last six months or so. The console still needs some weathering/scuffs and I've had to reduce the resolution of the images to upload here. It's still a work in progress but I think it's a definite step up from the old model. Let me know what you think!

Wow, looking at the component pictures, I really thought it was a physical full size build for a moment!!

Outstanding work!!

Blimey, that's a noticeable difference in realism!    The lighting/reflections really make these look like real pieces - especially where you've added fingerprints and smudges!

Merciful Mogg!  The render of the "flip switch" panel...!  Free of context, I would have believed it was a photo of actual electrical components!

Really excellent work.

I'm also using Blender; may have to pick your brains!

Really good work!!