timelapse/walk-through exploring some of Carrara’s Dynamic Hair Shader parameters applied to a simple single-guide ponytail – approx 25min edited and sped up to about 4min. As you watch the video remember that the guide hair is not changing at all, just the hair shader.
In this first installment, I begin to cover the complexities of Carrara’s powerful shader system. This is part 1 in a short series intended for new users of Carrara. In Part 1 I start by loading Daz3d’s V4 figure and demonstrate how to perform simple shader tweaks to get her to look properly. Part 1 ends as we begin to explore how to make full use of specular and bump maps, and I’ve already provided a decent amount of detail to get one going on adjusting the Highlight and shader channels, with some measure of explanation towards what they do together, with the available light in the scene.
By the end of this series, I’ll have covered a simple outline to shaders – but hopefully enough to get Carrara users in to that texture room with a bit more understanding of what’s going on. After I complete more in the general walkthrough topics, I’s like to revisit many topics, such as this one, and explore in much greater depth. Shaders are a really in depth topic in Carrara, as there is so much that we can do inside that console – to get our models looking however we want them to look. One of my favorite aspects of Carrara!
Quick method of modeling a partially filled wine bottle object (Part 1) and realistic scene with plaster walls and a very realistic tile floor (part 2). Demonstrates extrusion modeling and texturing techniques.
[youtube fullscreen=”yes”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3ynKuPx50 [youtube fullscreen=”yes”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VdGA402LHwAn introduction on Carrara Multi-channel mixer shaders.
This type of shader might look confusing at first but it is actually very easy to use and allows for some very complex effects.
I compare them to audio mixing in the tutorial but a better example would be say these 3d surface shaders are more like layers and masks in Photoshop.
This tutorial was made using Carrara 8pro but the same can be done in the Standard and in earlier versions.
Tour of Carrara’s shader interface
Add another layer to a Multi Shader (silent).
Fake subsurface scattering with a falloff shader.
