Getting Started with Computer Graphics

If you would like to try making your own cg art, then this post is for you.

It is possible to get an earlier version of Bryce for free. The company that sells Bryce is giving away Bryce 5 and 5.5. I think 5.5 can also work with Daz Studio, but it won't come with it(I think). That would be a separate download, but it is free too.

Bryce 5.5 is here.

Bryce 5.0 is gentler on older computers and is quite stable. This is the program I learned most of my techniques on. However, it will not run Daz Studio.
You can get it here.

If you're going to try Daz Studio(which you can get here), then this might interest you. It is a collection of animals with a few cartoon characters.
They are here.

I would also like to recommend these tutorials. This set of tutorials was once used a a beginner's course for Bryce5. (Corel sold Bryce to Daz, by the way) The Mulawa tutorials are another approach to the same. They were written for Bryce 4, but the same principles apply to Bryce 5. By the way, Peter Sharpe's tutorials are highly recommended for learning how to get some neat effects in Bryce with little effort. Many of these are fairly easy to follow, too.

I hope you enjoy this.