Learning Carrara 7 Tutorial DVD - Video Training

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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

  • 0401 Adding A Camera
  • 0402 Pointing Cameras
  • 0403 Saving A Camera Position
  • 0404 Types Of Lighting Part 1
  • 0405 Types Of Lighting Part 2
  • 0405 Types Of Lights
  • 0406 Anything Glows
  • 0407 Light Effects
  • 0408 Global Illumination
  • 0409 Skies And Atmospheres
  • 0410 Backgrounds
  • 0411 Black Eyes Syndrome
  • 0412 Backdrops
  • 0413 Indoor Indirect Lighting

• 05. Rendering

  • 0501 Types Of Rendering
  • 0502 Render Options Part 1
  • 0503 Render Options Part 2
  • 0504 Render Size
  • 0505 Multipass Rendering
  • 0506 Batch Rendering
  • 0507 Depth of Field

• 06. Primitives

  • 0601 Basic Primitives
  • 0602 Terrains
  • 0603 Plants
  • 0604 Clouds
  • 0605 Fire, Fountains And Fog
  • 0606 Ocean
  • 0607 Text

• 07. Shaders

  • 0701 Shader Channels
  • 0702 Shader Texture Types
  • 0703 Shader Layers
  • 0704 Terrain Shaders
  • 0705 Displacement
  • 0706 Shaders For Daz & Poser Figures
  • 0707 Shaders For Indirect Lighting
  • 0708 Shadow Catchers

• 08. Hair

  • 0801 Hair Basics
  • 0802 Hair Tools
  • 0803 Hair Shaders
  • 0804 Human Hair Part 1
  • 0805 Human Hair Part 2
  • 0806 Human Hair Part 3
  • 0807 Strays For Added Realism In Hair

• 09. Replicators

  • 0901 Grid Replicator Part 1
  • 0902 Grid Replicator Part 2
  • 0903 Surface Replicators
  • 0904 Greebles
  • 0905 Cityscape Scene
  • 0906 Using Distribution Maps - Path Through A Forest

• 10. Animating

  • 1001 Types Of Animation
  • 1002 Keyframe Animation
  • 1003 Tweeners
  • 1004 Physics Animation
  • 1005 Figure Animation And Bones
  • 1006 Figure Animation - Extra
  • 1007 Non-Linear Animation
  • 1008 Converting An Existing Animation Into A Clip
  • 1009 Animating Shaders And Other Properties

• 11. Particles

  • 1101 Creating A Particle System
  • 1102 Editing A Particle System

• 12. 3D Painting

  • 1201 3D Painting Basics
  • 1202 3D Paint Projects
  • 1203 Displacement Painting

• 13. Modeling

  • 1301 Spline Modeler
  • 1302 Vertex Modeler
  • 1303 Extruding
  • 1304 Booleans And Cuts
  • 1305 Surface Tools
  • 1306 Edge Tools
  • 1307 Metaball Modeling
  • 1308 Organic Modeling
  • 1309 Creating Your Own Morphs

• 14. Postworking The Final Image

  • 1401 Levels And Fixing Artifacts
  • 1402 Liquify Filter
  • 1403 Filters
  • 1404 Thumbnails

• 15. Putting It All Together To Create Great Images

  • 1501 Landscape Scene
  • 1502 Fantasy Scene
  • 1503 Modeling Spaceship
  • 1504 Animation Scene
  • 1505 About The Author

Carrara 7 is an amazing 3D modeling software package, that allows you to bring your imagination to life.

In this Carrara 7 tutorial video, expert instructor Phil Wilkes walks you through using this powerful package, starting from the basics.You will learn how to move around in the Carrara 7 space, and quickly get comfortable with the available tools. They you jump right into using the Carrara 7 feature set, including working with objects, managing cameras, posing, rendering, working with shaders, and much much more. Once you have all the operations down, you will put it altogether in a few final projects that re-enforce everything you have learned.

By the completion of this video based training course, you will be fully versed in the operation of Carrara 7, and completely comfortable creating your own figures, animations, and environments. Work files are included.