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Hi,

here some useful links for Carrara, more links are welcome.

Updated: March, 01, 2014

Carrara Standard, Pro
DAZ3D - http://www.daz3d.com/carrara-software/


Official Trial Versions
Win 32 Bit - http://download.cnet.com/Carrara-8-Pro/3000-6677_4-10782148.html
Mac 64 - http://download.cnet.com/Carrara-8-Pro-Mac-64/3000-6677_4-75362544.html


Full Versions in Magazines
Carrara 7 (Digital Arts Issue Juli 2010) - http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/?newsId=3225990
Carrara 7 Pro (3D Artist Issue #17) - https://www.imagineshop.co.uk/magazines/3dartist/3d-artist-issue-17.html
Carrara 7 Pro + Mimic Pro (3D World Issue #133) - http://www.3dworldmag.com/2010/07/30/iss…sale_in_the_uk/


Carrara Manuals + Quick Tour
DAZ3D Documentation Center Carrara 8.1 - http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/artzone/pub/software/carrara/start
DAZ3D Documentation Center Carrara 8.5 - http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/carrara/8_5/start
Carrara Information Manual (by Dartanbeck) - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/15970
German Carrara Manual (Carrara 8 / 8.5) - http://www.3d-board.de/76-carrara/22799-bersetzung-carrara-8-englisch-deutsch-manual-shortcuts-languagepack/


Carrara Help Topics & Tutorial Links
DAZ3D - http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/viewforum.php?f=66
Carrara User Group - http://carraracafe.com/


Plug-ins / Extensions
DAZ3D - http://www.daz3d.com/products/carrara/carrara-resources/
Digitalcarversguild - http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/carraraplugins.php
Inagoni - http://www.inagoni.com/news.php
Clintons 3D - http://www.clintons3d.com/plugins/carrara/index.html
Carrara-Collada - http://code.google.com/p/carrara-collada/
Sparrowhawke 3D - http://www.sparrowhawke3d.com/Sparrowhawke3DPlugins.html
Fenric - http://www.fenric.com and http://www.sharecg.com/v/44242/Software-…-For-Carrara/11
MatchMove Assistant - ???
PyCloid - http://www.f1oat.org/pycloid/
PyCarrara - http://pycarrara.sourceforge.net/
PySwarm - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/31190/
Ocean Plug-in for Carrara - http://www.brianorca.com/CarraraPluginOcean.html


Shaders
DAZ3D - http://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/resul…=shader&x=3&y=8
Spacebones - http://www.3d-board.de/index.php?page=Database&c=167
YAToon - https://bitbucket.org/zgock/yatoon/wiki/Home
Holyforest - http://www.holyforest.com/page14/index.html
Shoestring Graphics - http://www.des-web.net/html/shoestring_shaders.html
Mark Bremmer - http://www.markbremmer.com/3Bpages/darkarts.html
Tony Lynch Design - http://www.tonylynchdesigns.com
Howie Farkes - http://www.howiefarkes.com/?page_id=301
Blackraven 3D - http://www.blackraven3d.com/
Age of Armour - http://www.ageofarmour.com/3d/free/carra…il-shaders.html
Kevin Forbes - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=KLForbes
Sontaeseok - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…name=sontaeseok
Indigone - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=indigone
Paul Jay Schrenker - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=pauljs75
Visionastral - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…me=visionastral
Mgatch - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…ser_name=mgatch
Greyrobot - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…_name=greyrobot
Indigotwilight - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…=indigotwilight
Rhian-Skyblade - http://rhian-skyblade.deviantart.com/art/Marble-Shader-for-Carrara-165241190
Elele - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=Elele
CoolArtDude - http://carraracafe.com/downloads/?did=31
Virtual Matter - http://www.digitalarena.co.uk/virtual_matter/
Neyjour (Page 2 and 3) - http://neyjour.deviantart.com/gallery/899528
Mykyl - http://www.polyloop.net/showthread.php/5…ar-paint-shader
NexyS - http://www.decarlojewelryart.com/BE/BlueprintsEzine.html
ArtistX - http://artistx.webspace.virginmedia.com/DownMain.html


Scripts
AudioMation's Animation Data in Carrara - https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjaudiomationtocarrara

External Render Engines
Carrara to Blender Cycles - https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts2/mcjblendbotspecial
LuxRender via Luxus - http://carraracafe.com/luxus-the-luxrender-plugin-for-carrara-developmentdocumentation-blog/
Octane for Carrara (Preview) - http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=36332


Formulas
Gianp - http://gianpf.free.fr/


FX Specials
3D Treehouse - http://www.3dtreehouse.com/FXtextures.html (not more online) or http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/33075/#490561 (or look here)


Freebies
DAZ3D General Freepozitory - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewforum/41/
euQfiz Design 2012 - http://www.euqfiz.com.br/2010/
Renderosity - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php
ShareCG - http://www.sharecg.com
Renderot... - ???


3D Models
DAZ3D Free - http://www.daz3d.com/free-3d-models-and-content


Scenes / Samples
Howie Farkes - http://www.howiefarkes.com/?page_id=301
Blackraven 3D - http://www.blackraven3d.com/
Tim Payne - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=TimPayne
El Thommo - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=ElThommo
Paul Jay Schrenker - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=pauljs75
EvilProducer - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…me=evilproducer
Age of Armour - http://www.ageofarmour.com/3d/free/carra…ter-scenes.html

Animation
SKAmotion - http://www.skamotion.com/
CGSpeed - https://sites.google.com/a/cgspeed.com/c…riendly-release


Tutorials / Videos / Workshops
DAZ Forum - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewforum/66/
FractalDimensia (Tutorial list) - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/21414/
Renderosity - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/…e&section_id=16
Holy Forest - http://www.holyforest.com/page26/page26.html
Mark Bremmer Creative - http://www.markbremmer.com/3Bpages/tutorials.html
Howie Farkes - http://www.howiefarkes.com/?cat=14
Mike Moir - http://www.angelfire.com/de3/almighty/
Mystic Nights - http://mystic-nights.com/poser/tutorials…rrara-tuts.html
Polyloop (english and french) - http://forums.polyloop.net/forumdisplay.php?f=64 or http://forums.polyloop.net/forumdisplay.php?f=59
AWBenson - http://www.awbenson.com/tutorials.htm
Staigerland - http://www.staigerland.com/amapi/carrara/
Pawas - http://www.pawas.com/3d-links/carrara.htm
SciFiFunk - http://www.youtube.com/user/SciFiFunk/videos
Cripeman - http://www.youtube.com/user/cripeman/videos
DeeDee´s Doodles - http://www.seedydeedee.co.uk/tutorials.html
SOFTutorials - http://softutorials.com/c72/Carrara/newest/
Zonescreen - http://www.zonescreen.eu/blog/tutorials/index.html
Surreal 3D - http://www.surreal3d.com/tutorials/main_…_intro_001.html
NixeOnline - http://nixeonline.bplaced.net/downloads/downloads.html
Carls Corner - http://www.carls-corner.net/pages/tutorials.htm
Andy Clark - http://www.aceanim.com/Carrara/
Geekatplay Studios - http://www.geekatplay.com/pnina.php
DCG - http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/tutorials.php
Tim Payne - http://www.sharecg.com/v/30164/PDF/Word-…?division_id=11
Cajomi - http://www.cajomi.de/Download/tutorial1a.pdf
Visual Dreamhards - http://visual.dreamshards.de/index.php?page=Board&boardID=34
Dimensional Modeling - http://dmodeling.homebrewheaven.net/tutorials/index.html
Second Life Wiki - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Hyp…a_Sculpt_Baking
The Animation Playhouse - http://animationplayhouse.yolasite.com/
Markus Rothkranz - http://www.markusrothkranz.com/carrara_3d/
Cobus Prinsloo - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…igbangcreations
Tom Carranator - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…=tom_carranator
Shiba - http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/ca…g-for-beginners
Holly - http://www.3d.wetcircuit.com/
Fabaone - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…er_name=fabaone
Throck - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=Throck
Marcelo Teixeira - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.p…r_name=gkdantas
3D Board (german) - http://www.3d-board.de/lexicon/tutorial/carrara/ and http://www.3d-board.de/index.php?page=Database&c=40


Forums
DAZ3D - http://www.daz3d.com/forums
DAZ3D (old forum) - http://forumarchive.daz3d.com/
Renderosity - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/index.php
Polyloop - http://forums.polyloop.net/


Learning Carrara / Workshop Series
TC Computer Software Training
Carrara Studio 2 - Carrara 7 Pro: http://www.vtc.com/index.php

Lynda
Carrara 5: http://www.lynda.com

Infinite Skills
Carrara 7 / Carrara 8 / Carrara 8.5: http://www.infiniteskills.com/authors/Phil-Wilkes.html


Magazines
3dxtract Ezine - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/29265/
Carrara 3D Expo Magazine - http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=jetbird_d2


Books
Carrara 1 for Dummies (ASIN: 0764506560) - http://www.amazon.com/Carrara-For-Dummies-Computers/dp/0764506560/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391890098&sr=8-1&keywords=0764506560

Carrara 1.0 Bible (ASIN: 0764533754) - http://www.amazon.com/Carrara-1-Bible-Doug-Sahlin/dp/0764533754/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391890151&sr=8-1&keywords=0764533754

The Carrara 3 Studio Handbook (ASIN: 1584503106) - http://www.amazon.com/Carrara-Studio-Handbook-Graphics-Charles/dp/1584503106/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391890203&sr=8-1&keywords=1584503106

The Carrara 5 Pro Handbook (ASIN: 1584504633) - http://www.amazon.com/Carrara-Pro-Handbook-Graphics-Series/dp/1584504633/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391890256&sr=8-1&keywords=1584504633

Figures, Characters & Avatars... (ASIN: 1598638165) - incl. Carrara 6 Pro, Hexagon 2.5, DAZ Studio, Content (Michael 4 and Victoria 4 Complete...) - http://www.amazon.com/Figures-Characters-Avatars-Official-Beautiful/dp/1598638165/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391890303&sr=8-1&keywords=1598638165