Official Release of Carrara 8.5 **Update - 8.5.1.19**

After a lot of hard work, long nights, and even longer days by our development team we are happy to announce that Carrara 8.5 is available for purchase in the DAZ 3D store. We would like to thank all of our loyal Carrara customers for their patience and support with this project.

Carrara 8.5 Pro is priced at $285.00 for a limited time. Carrara 8.5 Standard is priced at $149.95.

Current owners of Carrara will receive a 50% discount on either product for a limited time. Platinum Club members get an additional 40% off, which means it's never been a better time to join the Platinum Club.

Carrara 8.5 Pro
Carrara 8.5 Standard

Included in Carrara 8.5 Pro are the Michael 5 and Victoria 5 Pro Bundles and Carrara Shaders - over $250 worth of Genesis content.
Carrara 8.5 standard ships with the Michael 5 and Victoria 5 Starter Bundles and Carrara Shaders - over $140 worth of Genesis content.

Here's a quick look at some of the new features:

Carrara 8.1.0.153 new version released!

If you have bought Carrara 8, DAZ 3D supports will add this new build to your account. Otherwise, you can Buy Carrara 8 or Buy Carrara 8 Pro with more advanced features. If you are already using this version, then you need not re-download again. It has not changed since the software in beta stage.

Changes since the last production build include:
QuickTime - Fixed second issue of #0040272 (black playback window)
QuickTime - Fixed first issue in #0040272 (options window behind main window)
Quicktime : Fixed #0040222 : Fixed sound saving issue
Rendering : Fixed #0040533 : Fixed shadow catcher issue with raytraced depth of field
3DView : Fixed #0040519 : Fixed display issue with storyboard room
VertexModeler : Issue #0038076 : Fixed snapping issue with the polyline tool
Mac : Issue #0040300 : Fixed sub tool bar clicking issue
VertexModeler : Issue #0039027 : Fixed bounding box position in the assemble room
SMP : Issue #0039916 : Fixed freeze during rendering
Carrara - Fixed some repaint issues, by adding context-flushing
Carrara : Issue #0039865 : Fixed splash screen timeout close issue
3DView : Issue #0040071 : Fixed production frame precision issue in Software renderer
VertexModeler : Issue #0039815 : Fixed bone weight editing undo
VectorRenderer : Issue #0030276 : Fixed issue with skinned objects in animation
Hair : Fixed memory corruption
Network Rendering : Issue #0040167 : Fixed old beta file issue with multi-frame network rendering
Carrara - Fixed and OpenGL flashing issue which affected the 32 bits version when leaving immediate mode

You need to know about this version of Carrara 8:
This version can install over your current version of Carrara 8.0. DAZ 3D's QA team has determined this is an improvement over the last 8.1 production and beta release. This version was released to the DAZ QA team to test and then released to the public for the stability and capabilities feedback. So you can consider this is the most stable version of Carrara 8.

This version was added to your account by the DAZ 3D Customer Support Team. If you had purchased Carrara 8, then it is ready for you to download in your account control panel.

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!

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!