by CafeGuru | Mar 30, 2011 | ShowCase
Kevin Wyeth
Carrara Artist
Fortunately I heard about Carrara 5 and its lineage, so I felt fairly comfortable “upgrading” from RayDream to Carrara. A couple years later, I upgraded to C7 Pro and haven’t looked back.
I was born in Illinois through no fault of my own. My parents soon came to their senses and moved to Wisconsin when I was twelve. I was home schooled by my parents who made me and my seven brothers walk
three miles to school every day. While this didn’t exactly make sense, it instilled in me a deep seated drive to achieve a marginal level of mediocrity.
My first experience with showing artwork was through 4-H. The highlight of this was in 1986 when I had an ink-wash selected to be displayed at the UW Madison, along with artwork from other 4-Hers from across the state.
Since that time, I have dabbled in various mediums as an amateur, while slowly and steadily migrating towards electronic media. My first experience with computer based artwork was with an Amiga my father had through work, and a program called Deluxe Paint. Years later as an adult, I bought a Mac and RayDream Studio 5. I used that until computer and OS upgrades made it very unstable. Fortunately I heard about Carrara 5 and its lineage, so I felt fairly comfortable “upgrading” from RayDream to Carrara. A couple years later, I upgraded to C7 Pro and haven’t looked back.
I’ve used some other programs through the years, including earlier versions of Poser and Bryce, but felt that they were somewhat limited. They each had features I wanted — realistic humans from Poser and realistic terrains from Bryce. Neither one worked well together, especially if you were a novice. More advanced software like C4D, Maya, etc. were both beyond my skill level and my budget, and Raydream was getting a bit rickety. I saw Carrara as a godsend and a bridge to what I wanted to do. Carrara had the tools I was familiar with from Raydream, the terrain and atmospheres I wanted from Bryce, the realistic humanoids from Poser and some of the high end features found in C4D and Maya, such as rigging, complex shaders
and more advanced lighting capabilities.
by CafeGuru | Mar 30, 2011 | ShowCase
Danas Anis
Carrara Artist
I had luck to enter Vilnius College of Technology and Design where I studied interactive design, digital animation and film making in 2006. During this period I discovered Carrara 5 and I was so intrigued by it that I kept tracking and examining it until I was able to buy a copy of Carrara.
[youtube width=”265″ height=”214″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmoAniNaeZg
[youtube width=”265″ height=”214″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07YRRiZE10U
Hello!
My name is Danas. I am know usually by these two names: Danas_Anis or Jetbird_D2.
Since childhood I loved to draw, I was always a dreamer and a bit off the planet guy and at age 5 I was already drawing my first comic book (if it can be called that way). I graduated Kaunas Art Gymnasium where I was introduced to 3D graphics for the first time with 3DS Max 5. During my graduation diploma project day I was offered to enter Vilnius Academy of Arts and study animation in Multimedia Faculty. However I had luck to enter Vilnius College of Technology and Design where I studied interactive design, digital animation and film making in 2006. During this period I discovered Carrara 5 and I was so intrigued by it that I kept tracking and examining it until I was able to buy a copy of Carrara. Before I was able to do so I had to go with other tools, I have tried all major and some not popular applications. I used Blender 2.40 for some time. And once I got my copy of Carrara I used to cheat on some 3DS Max lectures and accomplish projects with Carrara instead. Back then I have found a big value of speed and convenience in Carrara and fell in love with it.
I have never had troubles to meet deadlines and even help my colleagues. On 2009 I acquired a professorial bachelor degree as a designer and became a professional multimedia designer oriented to digital animation. I also started the Carrara 3D Expo magazine project. I think no one who knows me expected me to become a manager of a magazine :). Unfortunately after the house fire incident I had to take any acceptable job and had to give two years for print design either as an employee of design and advertising projects company or as a freelancer. Now I am trying to return to multimedia and catch up with always growing on demands multimedia world.
by CafeGuru | Mar 25, 2011 | ShowCase
Robbie MacGillivrayh
Carrara Artist
Been using Carrara since I found version 6 on a coverdisc and have been interested in 3D since using Imagine3D on my Amiga1200 many years ago.
I’m Robbie, 37yrs and living in Brisbane, Australia. Been using Carrara since I found version 6 on a coverdisc and have been interested in 3D since using Imagine3D on my Amiga1200 many years ago. I also do web design and have my ‘base’ site at www.onearmedgraphics.com . I lost the use of an arm from a motorbike accident 20 years ago and for me, art is my escape from the constant chronic pain problems I suffer with.
I believe Carrara is an ideal tool for self-publishers of all sorts of multimedia content or even offline print services. I believe the community has many untapped discoveries in how powerful it can be, especially with some of the existing plugins we have access to.
by CafeGuru | Mar 24, 2011 | ShowCase
Sub7th
[youtube width=”265″ height=”214″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_EfacP798
[youtube width=”265″ height=”214″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6SU1PbKWUA
by CafeGuru | Mar 24, 2011 | ShowCase
Popgriffon
Carrara Artist
Always interested in seagoing or airborne stuff – built models, real things, maintenance, etc.. now doing the same in 3D.
Came to 3D from CAD;
Shortly:
40 years old, Pomerania, Poland;
Marine engineer;
Shipbuilding industry;
Always interested in seagoing or airborne stuff – built models, real things, maintenance, etc.. now doing the same in 3D.
Came to 3D from CAD;
To Carrara from Bryce;
With Carrara since v.1, seriously since Studio 3;
Current pipeline: TurboCAD/Rhino => Wings/Hexagon => 3DCoat/GIMP/Inkscape => Carrara/Bryce/Poser/Strata/Vue
I love ships, respect griffons – it’s local thing,
I don’t love Carrara – it’s only a tool, that works good enough,
I hate long writing, my favourite lecture – technical drawings.
by CafeGuru | Mar 24, 2011 | ShowCase
Dimension Theory
Carrara Artist
Starting small and keeping strong focus on the techniques he needed to work on has made him what he is today. He believes that addressing shortcomings with the help of an awesome community in turn makes all things possible.
[youtube width=”265″ height=”214″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIA0pEqx-Y
[youtube width=”265″ height=”214″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXs8rFi0as
After a life of composing music, Jeffrey Felt (DimensionTheory) found his way into the computer art world in 2004 as another means of
artistic expression after his discovery of a program called ‘Carrara’.
Starting small and keeping strong focus on the techniques he needed to work on has made him what he is today. He believes that addressing shortcomings with the help of an awesome community in turn makes all things possible. With this in mind his love of the industry has grown, and continues to grow with each new render
