Carrara 8.5.1.12 Beta online now
DAZ 3D is pleased to announce the next public version of the Carrara BETA – version 8.5.1.12
New Shaders for Carrara
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!
Carrara – Realism Rendering Training Video (Infinite Skills)
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…)
Carrara Challenge X “Past hopes and present nostalgia”
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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OctaneRender 2.0 released
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.
Natron Compositor Open-Source Chromakey
Natron is an open-source – crossplatform – nodal – compositing software for OS X, LINUX and WINDOWS.
It supports OpenFX plugins and have many nice other features.
I believe there can never be too many software applications to be aware of that could improve and extend your art creation.
This one might become a very valuable application to all Carrara animators. If you are in the needs for a compositing software to add some extra visuals to your Carrara rendered animations there is a very promising project in active development.
Mamba FX – affordable high end compositor
SGO, the developers of amazing and high end industry approved post production software Mistika, presented a new tool for everyone in the needs for a high end composting application. Built on top of Mistika’s technology here is Mamba FX.
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