LuxusCore for Carrara plugin – Unofficial manual 2016-01-23
An unofficial CarraraCafe manual for the upcoming LuxusCore plugin for Carrara, that brings GPU accelerated rendering and realtime render preview into Carrara. It is updated frequently, so check back often. If you have any questions or something to add, check the end...
We just recovered from big crash and are still working on fixes.
Hello, As some of you may know Carrara Cafe was recently hacked. We have recovered from the crash, however there are still some glitches that are being worked on. Unfortunately the back up file that I have is a little bit old one so we lost few new posts in...
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ERC MADE EASY – Enhancing Facial Realism
Fenric has created for us a very powerful animation automation tool with the Carrara ERC plug-in. However, the core concept of ERC is very simple; thing A moves thing B or more accurately thing A controls/modifies thing B. ERC is basically acting like the string between a puppet and its human master.
Carranimation Part 1 – Rotation of the Hip
In this article I wanted to instead demonstrate my simple method of character animation. Shape the pose, and be creative with it. Here is your chance to direct exactly what that hero or villain is up to. You could use purchased poses for any of this, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to do everything by hand….
Optimizing Your Content – Shader Basics
Optimizing is uniquely different from one individual’s needs to the next. We all have different tastes and goals which leads to different scene setups with lighting and rendering – even render engine considerations. This article has a goal to help you solve some of the more basic aspects of tweaking existing shaders to appear in the scene the way you want them to. While it mostly focuses on character shaders, what is said here also applies to all shaders in Carrara.
Major Production – My Production
A brief word about how I juggle the creation of my own meager, yet somewhat epic in scale, production in Carrara Amidst the darkness of reality arose a hero lost in his own imagination. Together, he and his fascinations protect what little light remains and strive to...
10 Reasons You Need a Falloff Shader Plugin
What if I told you there is a single shader that can deliver more visual impact from your renders, allowing you to redefine reflection, highlight, and shadow with the contours of your scene objects….
Carrara/Marvelous Designer Walkthrough by booksbydavid
While Carrara doesn’t have built in dynamic cloth functions, dynamic clothing can be used to good effect in Carrara via Marvelous Designer. This short walk through is how I get dynamic clothing from Marvelous Designer to Carrara.
What Content can I use in Carrara?
Carrara has the ability to load in and use most types of 3d model files on the market. It has a rather genius browser window to help us to catalog and find it all. But how do I set it up? And what kind of content can I buy and expect to work easily within Carrara’s interface? I bought it, installed it, but how do I find it?
Luxus for Carrara Manual (PDF)
Luxrender via Luxus for Carrara Manual (PDF).
Mocap into Carrara – by CyBoRgTy
Using one of several workflows, motion capture data can easily be imported and used to animate characters in Carrara.
Escaping Gravity – 10 Tips for Photoreal Planets
10 Tips for breathtaking views of Earth and other “habitable zone” planets.
Luxus the Luxrender plugin for Carrara – Development/documentation blog 20130601
The new Luxus the Luxrender plugin for Carrara is being developed by Spheric Labs at a very rapid rate. This blog is supposed to collect the most important information in one place. The latest support additions are manual changes, free shaders and a FAQ, thanks to...
New DAZ Install Manager and Carrara 8.5 benefits *UPDATED*
The new DAZ Install Manager (DIM) has been announced in the Platinum Club newsletter and the Daz3D forums as well. While it seems to have no meaning or impact for Carrara users, other than smoother content installation, it actually shows the way forward for Carrara....
Creating cloths for Poser
Carrara now will talk to Daz Studio with a new file format that DAZ 3D is testing, so its time to add Daz Studio to our new arsenal of tools. You can use it as more then a simple pose and render tools, but as a content creator tool! Here is a collection of Daz Studio...
Essential Plugins for Carrara
There are quite a few plugins available for Carrara. Which ones do you need? Which will add major features, and which are the most useful? This is not an in-depth review of individual plugins (that will come later), but this overview might get you started.
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