Making Ocean And Water in Carrara

Once you use Carrara, theres no looking back on Daz Studio or Poser. Trust me, I started with Poser but found it frustrating, then played around with Daz studio and finally I discovered Carrara. If there was anything better than Carrara for handing Daz and Poser content then I would be using it. It does so many things but with so many features comes the learning curve and effort to get really good at it.

There’s a bucket load of post production work in that image,

As far as I can see,. the water drips are Photoshop brushes which is the easiest way to do a complex water effect.
the Water colour is driven by the reflection of the background “sky” image, which is possibly the most important part of the image.

Carrara 8.5 Review

New in Carrara 8.5: 

1. Support for imported Genesis .dsf files (best used with DAZ Studio 4.0.3.19 or newer installed). 
2. Character presets can be applied. Go to the Instance Tab, select the 2nd Genesis listed in the tree or the Actor line, and double click the character from the list. If the one of these items is not selected, an additional figure will be loaded with that character applied. 
3. New Parameters Pane and user experience 
4. Carrara 8.5 Parameter Pane. If you are familiar with the Parameters Tab (with the Genesis figure) in DAZ Studio 4, the equivalent to Carrara 8.5 is the Parameter Pane which is accessed by selecting the second Genesis from the list. 
5. Shaping in Parameters Pane. If you are familiar with the Shaping Tab in DAZ Studio 4, the equivalent for Carrara 8.5 can be accessed by selecting the Actor line from the tree in the Instance Pane. 
6. Content Management System or CMS connection to utilize the DAZ Studio database (requires DAZ Studio 4.0.3.19 or newer recommended to be installed). We are looking into a project to install the CMS for Carrara without the need of DAZ Studio. So for the Carrara customers not using DAZ Studio they can still take advantage of the new system. More information will be coming. 
7. AutoFit is included in Carrara 8.5 
8. Fit To (auto generates Genesis morphs) for Genesis designed clothing 
9. Restore Figure tools 
10. Memorize tools 
11. Zero Figure tools 
12. Smart Content Tab (shows all the content with meta data organized similarly to DAZ Studio's Smart Content Tab) 
13. New SubD / Smoothing tool (display the smoothing slider of smoothed vertex object in the assemble room) 
14. Improved Bullet Physics for soft body simulation 
15. aniBlock importer has been updated and fixed for Carrara 8.5 
16. Mac OSX Lion support has been implemented 
17. Geo grafting has been implemented and we continue to work on this feature 
18. New Light Icons to better represent the lights, the controls have also been improved.

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Carrara 8 Test : Particles and Physics

Carrara 8 Begineer Artist Psycho Clown just playing and testing the various animation techniques offered by Carrara 8.




For the past 24 hours he has been teaching himself about Particle Generators and have made a few animations using Carrara 8. He also sandwiched between is another physics/gravity/dynamics test.

Carrara 8 Pro Demo by Begineer

A 3D artist just bought Carrara 8 Pro. He feel that it is amazing and easy to use compare with other big brands (e.g. Bryce and Poser).

This is probably just a standard stuff to people who've been using it for a while, but he was really impressed that using within 2 days! He has used to make a good control over the Physics and Particle generators with Carrara 8. He has never used Carrara before. He has worked in other 3D apps (Bryce and Poser mostly).

Carrara 8 Pro Demo - Rendering Using NASA Map

Another Cool Carrara 8 Pro Demo : Here's a simple animation of Mars using just a NASA map on a sphere and a distant light. Next will add a background using Dartanbeck's cool plugin, Starry Sky.


1:45 video, rendered at 900x800, 24fps in 36:20 on ASUS i7 laptop
Carrara 8 Pro (Version 8.1.1.12)


Artist Megacal had a life-long fascination with Mars & Martians since seeing War of the Worlds (1953). Now he has the tools and more time (but less money) since retirement in 2011, he hope to go there more often, and explore, looking for evidence of ancient Martians......maybe some live ones!

Carrara 8 Pro Review - 3D Animation Application For Windows and Mac

DAZ 3D new generation software Carrara 8 and Carrara 8 Pro, new versions of 3D modeling, animation and makes 3D suites that ensure its animation improved tools, better lighting, new rendering tools and effective processing optimization.

With the help of professional artists Carrera 8 Pro Tools will have the ability to run in 64-bit version of Mac and Windows, and Bullet Physics Library. It is open source, advanced physics toolkit allows artists to use hard and soft body dynamics, e.g. Puppeteer Integration. DAZ 3D says that togethered with the speed improvements achieved in the new support for multi-threading and hardware with 64-bit coding, Carrara 8 Pro extremely improves productivity .

The updated export options allow game developers to custom characters, environments and animations directly to the Unity game engine using FBX file format.

Another new features, for example : improved plants and vegetation. Users can add their custom models and textures of leaves, unique flowers, fruits and so on. Artists can also use different type of objects leaves per plant in a more natural variation.

Carrara 8 users can complete their important cleanup work and detail work, with important information about the available objects in the model considered or respected. This allows the user to see immediate results on the job.

Including improved lighting tools, e.g. negative light, God Rays, barn doors in the limelight, and much more capacity, lighting (IES) photometric requested.

Models of DAZ Carrara Studio 8 was added to the tools that improve the ability of animators to quickly create realistic animated characters that can be recorded and used as animation clips. Network enhancements include the ability to add and remove nodes via their master machine that makes frames or containers as required for more secured to protect in case of lost render data.

Mimic Pro for Carrara Review

Mimic Pro for Carrara Unleash the power of Mimic directly within Carrara. With the ability to add in expressions such as winks, nods and smiles, your figures can easily become as expressive as your imagination allows. Mimic Pro for Carrara now has a much more intuitive and customizable interface.

With the ability to add in expressions such as winks, nods and smiles, your figures can easily become as expressive as your imagination allows. Mimic Pro for Carrara now has a much more intuitive, customizable interface, along with enhanced features that will drastically cut your production time. Making your favorite 3D characters talk has never been so easy, thanks to Mimic - now better than ever! Visit the Mimic Resources page for additional resources such as tutorials and figure compatibility updates.

Note: This is for 32-bit AND 64-bit versions of Carrara (PC AND MAC).

3D Animation Tutorials Using Carrara 8

Everything you have Wanted your animation tool to be ...

Thanks to DAZ 3D to make Carrara 8, a masterpiece of 3D animation software that introduced in Mac animation field. After the company combined with Gizmoz, which is the industry leader of face mapping, detects and rendering, it let Carrara 8 to expand their market share beyond Mac software.

Now, the recent updated version make rendering speed a bust! The render speed is 200% higher then previous versions! Carrara 8 also support Windows and Mac system, make it more popular then ever!