by 3drendero | Mar 1, 2015 | News
The Carrara shader expert Ringo Monfort has been busy releasing Carrara shaders for Genesis 2 figures at a rapid pace. This time the brand new characters Darius and Monique are brought to life in Carrara. Check the screenshots below. Right now they are on sale at 30% off, but Ringo’s entire store is in the March Madness sale, so you can pick up some of the other shader sets at 50%.
DP Darius 6 Carrara Shaders
DP Monique 6 Carrara Shaders
Ringo’s entire store
March Madness 2015 details at DAZ3D.
DP Monique 6 Carrara Shaders
DP Darius 6 Carrara Shaders
Darius 6 in Abandoned City all in Carrara 8.5 Pro.
Updated 20150302 with freebie.
Ringo Monfort has kindly provided a Render Stage for free, hosted here at CarraraCafe.
The download includes the free HDRI available from http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html and all their HDRI’s are free for non-commercial use, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
After unzipping all the files, load the *.car scene in Carrara and if you are asked to select the *.hdr file, do so from the same folder as the *.car was unzipped.
Here is an example render:
Screen capture of Monique 6 in Carrara with the freebie Render Stage:
Thank you Ringo for the freebie, looks great!
by rk | Dec 20, 2014 | News
DAZ 3D is pleased to announce the next public version of the Carrara BETA – version 8.5.1.12
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by Jetbird_D2 | Dec 13, 2014 | Cafe Articles, News
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 few places as well as some members might need to create new accounts.
It is also strongly recommended to change log-in passwords to everyone. Please do change your password to new ones before Monday.
Attention! New users, please hold on on registering new accounts, were are looking into how to resolve some lost data and we might need to reset entire website again which might lead to loss of new registrations. Gives us couple of days before registering to Carrara Cafe.
I apologize for inconveniences this caused you.
Kind regards,
Jetbird_D2
by rk | Aug 8, 2014 | News
Free Professional 3D Shaders for Carrara
All artworks and shaders created by Kirk Saavedra
He writes on his site:
“…Our shader collections include a large array of shaders like: glass, plastic, wood, bars, metal, paper, rust, clean metals, cloth, leather etc and the best part it is all free!
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by rk | Jul 25, 2014 | News
Carrara – Realism Rendering Training Video
New tutorial series by Phil Wilkes at Infinite Skills online: http://www.infiniteskills.com/carrara/
Course Description:
“…You will start by learning about the render settings in Carrara, then jump into learning how to create realistic lighting. Phil will take you through worked examples, including a vehicle, and the interior and exterior. This video tutorial also takes you through a worked example of a human, including creating the character clothing, skin, eyes, and hair, and rendering the final character…” (more…)
by Holly Wetcircuit | Jun 16, 2014 | Contest, News
Carrara Challenge X – Past hopes and present nostalgia
With Prizes Brought to You by Daz and HowieFarkes
DAZ has been very generous in encouraging these Carrara Challenges and has offered to support us once a month!
DAZ is donating:
1st Place: $100 towards Daz owned items.
2nd Place: $50 towards Daz owned items.
3rd Place: $25 towards Daz owned items.
In addition, two Honorable Mentions will receive a $10 Daz owned item.
This month’s sponsor is HowieFarkes and winners will also receive items from his store.
Summary:
Each artist may submit up to two images by 9pm Mountain Time MT, July 14th, 2014.
The subject is “Past hopes and present nostalgia”. It’s a two sided theme with a render illustrating either the idea people from the past had of our present time and/or what we can be nostalgic of their time.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/42599/
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by rk | Jun 10, 2014 | News
OTOY releases yesterday (Mon Jun 09, 2014) OctaneRender 2.0 and says:
“The new features in OctaneRender™ 2 include:
- Displacement mapping – Used to give objects depth and detail, displacement mapping allows the height of points on a surface to be adjusted based on an image value.
- Object motion blur – The blurring effect that simulates motion of inanimate objects in a rendered scene is supported and can be applied independently of camera movement.
- Vertex motion blur – The blurring effect associated with geometry deformations, such as movement of a character’s arms or legs.
- Hair and fur – An optimized hair render primitive is now available to allow rendering of hair or fur while reducing memory usage by 20 times compared to previous processes. OctaneRender™ 2 also simulates the distribution and fluidity of movement of those primitives.
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