Carrara 6 Tutorial Video

Introduction

• Introduction / Terminology / Scope
• New in Carrara Pro 6 .1
• New In Carrara Pro 6 .2

Interface

• Interface Tour
• Room Tour / Assembly . 1
• Room Tour / Assembly . 2
• Room Tour / Model
• Room Tour / Storyboard
• Room Tour / Texture
• Room Tour / Render
• Browser / Content Manager
• General 3D Best Methods
• Carrara Preferences

Using The Cameras

• The Three Basic Cameras
• Camera Properties . 1
• Camera Properties . 2
• Using Cameras For Navigating Your 3D Space
• Navigating With Track / Dolly / Pan / Bank Tools
• Advanced Motion Paths For Camera Movement

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Creating Scenes

• Using the Universal Manipulator
• Primitive Objects
• Creating Text Objects
• Formula Objects
• Creating Plants with Carrara
• Ocean Primitive
• Exploring the Scene Wizard and Browser
• Creating Your Own Carrara Library of Objects
• Importing 3D Models in Carrara

Managing Scene Elements

• Setting Up a Scene
• Grouping / Nesting and Hotpoints
• Moving / Scaling and Rotating
• Aligning / Duplicating / Distributing and Spacing Objects
• Using the Eye Dropper
• Advanced Scene Management

Lighting a Scene

• Scene Lighting Controls
• Using the Distant Light
• Using the Spot Light . 1
• Using the Spot Light . 2
• Using the Bulb Light
• Using the Anything Glows Light
• Environment Light Tool
• Using the Shape and Tube Light
• Master Lights
• Moon and Sun Light
• Best Methods For Lighting
• Advanced Special Lighting Effects
• Advanced HDRI and IBL lighting . 1
• Advanced HDRI and IBL lighting . 2
• Advanced Ambient Occlusion

Modifiers and Behaviors

• Using Modifiers and Behaviors
• Behaviors for Animation . 1
• Behaviors for Animation . 2

The Carrara 6 Modelers

• Comparing Spline / Vertex and Metaball Modelers

Spline Modeler

• Creating Cross Sections
• Creating a Jet Engine
• Jet Engine Continued
• Advanced Importing From Drawing Programs
• Advanced Additional Imports
• Carrara Extrusion Methods . 1
• Extrusion Methods . 2 (with Compounds)

Vertex Modeler

• Vertex Room Basics
• Selecting Deleting Dissolving
• Polylines Sweeps
• Dynamic Extrusion
• Lathing and Lofting
• Tool Integration / Creasing / Smoothing
• Linking / Polygon Tool / Tesselate and Add Tool
• Boolean
• Cut Tool
• Subdivision Smoothing and Soft Selection
• Symmetry Change and Drawing Plane
• Carrara Edge Tools . 1
• Edge Tools . 2
• Pro Tool Modeling
• Gordon / Coons / Ruled and Double
• Bridge Tool
• Advanced Displacement Painting . 1
• Advanced Displacement Painting. 2
• Advanced UV Mapping . 1
• Advanced UV Mapping . 2
• Advanced UV Mapping . 3
• Advanced UV Mapping . 4
• Advanced UV Mapping . 5
• Advanced Morph Targets . 1
• Advanced Morph Targets . 2

Metaball Modeler

• Using the Metaball Modeler . 1
• Using the Metaball Modeler . 2

Plant Modeler

• Building Plants . 1
• Building Plants . 2
• Building Plants . 3
• Building Plants . 4
• Make a Bush
• Advanced Custom Leaves . 1
• Advanced Custom Leaves . 2

Creating Terrains and Skies

• Introduction to Terrain Objects
• Creating and Modifying a Terrain
• Using the Map Editor
• Terrain Shader
• Creating Realistic Skies

Hair

• Creating Hair . 1
• Creating Hair . 2 (Groups)
• Guide Hair and Density
• Guide Hair and Curling
• Guide Hair Addition Draping
• Advanced Domain Selection
• Advanced Symmetry and Hair Groups
• Advanced Resets Styling Drapes
• Advanced PostDrape Styling . 1
• Advanced PostDrape Styling . 2
• Advanced Shader Control
• Advanced Texture Map Controls

Using the Replicators

• What are the Two Replicators?
• The Replicator . 1
• The Replicator . 2
• Animated Replicator
• The Surface Replicator . 1
• The Surface Replicator . 2
• Advanced Shader Map Surface Rep

Using Shaders

• Shader Introduction
• Shader Tree and Basic Shader Functions
• Using the Shader Tree and Applying Shaders
• Mixer
• Multichannel Mixer
• Working With Texture Maps
• Texture Maps / Reference Shader
• Displacement Maps . 1
• Displacement Maps . 2
• Shader Domains and Layer Lists Domains. 1
• Layer List Domains . 2
• Layer List Domains . 3
• Layer List Domains . 4
• Layer List Domains. 5
• Translucence
• Subsurface Scattering. 1
• Subsurface Scattering. 2
• Transparency with Absorbtion 1
• Transparency with Absorbtion. 2
• Advanced Complex Shader Development
• Advanced Animated Displacement Mapping. 1
• Advanced Animated Displacement Mapping. 2
• Advanced Refraction and Reflection. 1
• Advanced Refraction and Reflection. 2
• Advanced The Terrain Shader. 1
• Advanced The Terrain Shader. 2
• Advanced Elevation controls
• Advanced Shader Plug-ins. 1
• Advanced Shader Plug-ins. 2

Adding Natural and Environmental Elements

• Using Particles. 1
• Using Particles. 2
• Using Particles. 3
• Advanced Animating Particle Maps
• Fire
• Fountains
• Fog
• Adding Volumetric Clouds

Animating a Scene

• Working With Keyframes
• Tweeners
• Carrara Motion Paths
• Using Physics
• Advanced NonLinear Animation
• Advanced Timeline Graph Editor
• Advanced Camera Animation and Effects

Character Animation

• Basic Rigging
• Inverse Kinematics in Carrara
• Weightmap Painting
• Bones with Symmetry. 1
• Bones with Symmetry. 2
• Motion for Organics. 1
• Motion for Organics. 2
• Motion Constraints For Robots
• Advanced Rigging Morph Targets

Rendering

• Best-methods For Rendering. 1
• Best-methods For Rendering. 2
• Choosing a Render Engine
• Rendering Still Images
• Rendering Animations
• Rendering With Global Illumination
• Ambient Occlusion
• Rendering Irradiance Maps
• Rendering Caustics
• Rendering G-Buffers
• Batch and Network Rendering

Conclusion

• Wrap-Up and Resources
• Contact Information