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....

Animated Textures onto Uv Mapped models Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBPv4_-B6mo Using the Blade Runner inspired Dirigible with an animated advert. This tutorial shows two different ways of bringing a movie onto a texture and how to make it fit a uv mapped area. Some post processing is inevitable and so...

IES Lighting and easy editing for 3D apps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRhKNAQXmQE How to use IES Lighting in your 3D app and how to edit IES lights. (Use them for volumetric lighting). More info and examples at facebook.com/scififunk IES lighting (Illuminating Engineering Society file type to describe...

Low Poly People Mass Walk Loops Tutorial

ScifiFunk creates a dense city street scene with 132 low poly characters! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0bVp-DKco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_djzfWNwI_c How to create walk loops for lots of low poly people, with separate walk loops so that they DON'T look...