How to Light up Windows in a 3D Night Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVIt6XlX_mo The technique I'm showing here is to isolate the windows you wish to be on by cutting them out (and the immediate surroundings if you want that), and shining a bulb light onto the cut out (and only the cut out). This gives...
When Clothes Go Bad (How to fix for 3D animation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbE67LFCVoU A fix for Carrara Poser figures if their clothes do not follow the figure they are conformed to anymore. This is one of those bugs in Carrara where if you know it, you are ok. If not you might be perplexed for some time. In...
Morph Targets Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7akhf5GFMAM Morph targets allow the animator to define an area of an object, move it and then animate (tween) between the two states (un-morphed and morphed). In Carrara the morph targets are keyframe animatable. Therefore you can take...
How to export Aniblocks from DAZ Studio into Carrara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLbNkVnrV9g To export an AniBlock from DAZ Studio to Carrara, you'll need to bake to studio keyframes first. This video shows why and the correct way to export Aniblocks from Daz Studio and into Carrara.
How to Build a Big Set for 3D Animation
ScifiFunk talks as a filmmaker about building a large-environment set for his 3D movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEqvAfzMw7k In Part 1 I show a render tour of the set so that you can see what the final set looks like. The set is rendered in Carrara with no post...
Carrara EnvironKit – Woodlands: Build a Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMNAE5KWD0 Dartanbeck's EnvironKit leverage the power of Carrara's nature, terrain, and environment tools. While he builds a complete scene you will see how he has saved plant and terrain elements as browser presets that can quickly add...
Carrara EnvironKit – Woodlands: GettingStarted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvHs7FkxbM Dartanbeck's EnvironKit series leverage the power of Carrara's nature, terrain, and environment tools. While he tours this extensive product you will see how he has organized light and sky elements into presets that can be...
Howler Motion Trails
FM9sDkZqhHU To me, Project Dogwaffle Pro: Howler is the perfect addition for applying post-work to my rendered animations from Carrara prior to the final production editing. I plan to do more video tutorials on some of these subjects, and discuss them quite a bit at...
Carrara Walk Through: Shaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvc4mvcDSys 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...
Animating Eddie in Carrara 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSYoQHGf-Q Join Barbara Bastrup as she demonstrates the basics of character animation using primitives (basic shapes) to create "Eddie the Eraser Dog" in Carrara 8. A beginner level introduction to 3D, modeling, and animation....