Learning Carrara 8 Training on DVD - UK Delivery Only

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This Carrara 8 Tutorial Video is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

The training uses broadcast quality audio and video to deliver concise and informative training right to your desktop. The training comes complete with practical working files and presented via an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, allowing you to learn at your own pace.

These Carrara 8 Tutorials make learning simple, quick and enjoyable. All Training Videos are authored by professional instructors who have a passion for teaching.

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01. Basics And Getting Around

• Introduction
• Loading A Preset Scene
• The Carrara Rooms
• The Screen Layout
• Moving Around In 3D Space
• Window Views And Layouts
• 2D Vs. 3D Views

02. Working With Objects

• Loading An Object
• Loading A Primitive
• Moving, Scaling And Rotating
• Collision Detection
• Parenting And Grouping
• Duplicating
• Moving The Hot Point
• Adding A Shader
• Saving An Object
• Modifiers
• Numerics And Constraints

03. Working With Poser/Daz Content

• Adding A Runtime
• Loading A Figure
• Adding Clothes And Poses
• Posing The Figure
• Using Point At

04. Cameras, Lighting And Scene Effects

• Adding A Camera
• Pointing Cameras
• Saving A Camera Position
• Types Of Lighting Part 1
• Types Of Lighting Part 2
• Types Of Lights
• Anything Glows
• Light Effects
• Global Illumination
• God Rays and Sun Beams
• Skies And Atmospheres
• Backgrounds
• Black Eyes Syndrome
• Backdrops
• Indoor Indirect Lighting
• New Lighting Option

05. Rendering

• Types Of Rendering
• Render Options Part 1
• Render Options Part 2
• Render Size
• Multipass Rendering
• Batch Rendering
• Depth of Field

06. Primitives

• Basic Primitives
• Terrains
• Plants
• Multi-leaf Objects
• Edit Tree Shape
• Clouds
• Fire, Fountains And Fog
• Ocean
• Text

07. Shaders

• Shader Channels
• Shader Texture Types
• Shader Layers
• Terrain Shaders
• Displacement
• Shaders For Daz & Poser Figures
• Shaders For Indirect Lighting
• Shadow Catchers
• Using Normal Maps

08. Hair

• Hair Basics
• Hair Tools
• Hair Shaders
• Human Hair Part 1
• Human Hair Part 2
• Human Hair Part 3
• Strays For Added Realism In Hair

09. Replicators

• Grid Replicator Part 1
• Grid Replicator Part 2
• Surface Replicators
• Greebles
• Cityscape Scene
• Using Distribution Maps - Path Through A Forest

10. Animating

• Types Of Animation
• Keyframe Animation
• Tweeners
• Physics Animation
• Figure Animation And Bones
• Figure Animation - Extra
• Non-Linear Animation
• Converting An Existing Animation Into A Clip
• Animating Shaders And Other Properties

11. Puppeteer

• Puppeteer Basics
• Using Puppeteer For Character Animation
• Optimizing Puppeteer

12. Bullet Physics & Soft Body

• Bullet Physics Basics
• Bullet Physics - Knocking Down Blocks
• Physics Motion With Constraints
• Soft Body And Cloth Basics
• Soft Body Attach - Animating A Flag

13. Particles

• Creating A Particle System
• Editing A Particle System

14. 3D Painting

• 3D Painting Basics
• 3D Paint Projects
• Displacement Painting

15. Modeling

• Spline Modeler
• Vertex Modeler
• Extruding
• Booleans And Cuts
• Surface Tools
• Edge Tools
• Metaball Modeling
• Organic Modeling
• Creating Your Own Morphs
• Vertex Editing In A Posed Position

16. Postworking The Final Image

• Levels And Fixing Artifacts
• Liquify Filter
• Filters
• Thumbnails

17. Putting It All Together To Create Great Images

• Landscape Scene
• Fantasy Scene
• Modeling Spaceship
• Animation Scene
• About The Author