Some Carrara Questions

Subtropic Pixel

Hello!

I am interested in C8.5 Pro, since it just came out. I don't have V5/M5, so it might be worthwhile to me.

Bryce is sort of showing its age to me, so I've been looking at landscape/scenery generators and have just begun trying out Vue PLE (Personal Learning Edition). My main interest is to make scenes and possibly include objects, buildings, and people in them.

Of course, I also have DS 4; just got it, and have been playing around just a bit. I also have an old old Poser 7 license here and have been thinking of upgrading to Poser 2014 at some point. My interest in characters is for portraiture, comics, the aforementioned "in a landscape" situation, and eventually character animation.

I am also interested in object and device modelling, such as architecture, cars, ships, and space vehicles, but that's not the first priority.

So, I'm going to struggle here to ask some reasonably competent questions:

Question 1: For those of you who have used Carrara and Bryce or Vue, what would you say are the biggest benefits (to you) of Carrara for landscapes and scenery?

Question 2: For those of you who have used Carrara and either DS4 and/or Poser, what would you say are the biggest benefits (to you) of Carrara for character development or animation? I read the thread that slightly disses the puppeteer features as beginners-only, but I AM a beginner, haha! I am also interested in eventually getting into motion-capture, and would like to know how Carrara might support that down the road.

I would like to see some more good examples of Carrara output too. I've seen a few in the render challenge thread, but would love to look at more, and maybe some animation samples as well.

I'm not planning on a mutually exclusive software choice; just a starting point to begin gaining some experience understanding how to create a scene that might make the viewer want to spend some time there, as well as believable characters and beautiful or interesting places/situations. I'll probably have more than one tool eventually anyway. After all, my garage has several different types of hammers, screwdrivers, and sockets. Can't expect one tool to do everything, right? So naturally I would expect that my software toolbox might eventually have a variety of tools in it too.

Thanks in advance!

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Subtropic Pixel said:

Hello!

I am interested in C8.5 Pro, since it just came out. I don't have V5/M5, so it might be worthwhile to me.

Bryce is sort of showing its age to me, so I've been looking at landscape/scenery generators and have just begun trying out Vue PLE (Personal Learning Edition). My main interest is to make scenes and possibly include objects, buildings, and people in them.

Of course, I also have DS 4; just got it, and have been playing around just a bit. I also have an old old Poser 7 license here and have been thinking of upgrading to Poser 2014 at some point. My interest in characters is for portraiture, comics, the aforementioned "in a landscape" situation, and eventually character animation.

I am also interested in object and device modelling, such as architecture, cars, ships, and space vehicles, but that's not the first priority.

So, I'm going to struggle here to ask some reasonably competent questions:

Question 1: For those of you who have used Carrara and Bryce or Vue, what would you say are the biggest benefits (to you) of Carrara for landscapes and scenery?

Question 2: For those of you who have used Carrara and either DS4 and/or Poser, what would you say are the biggest benefits (to you) of Carrara for character development or animation? I read the thread that slightly disses the puppeteer features as beginners-only, but I AM a beginner, haha! I am also interested in eventually getting into motion-capture, and would like to know how Carrara might support that down the road.

I would like to see some more good examples of Carrara output too. I've seen a few in the render challenge thread, but would love to look at more, and maybe some animation samples as well.

I'm not planning on a mutually exclusive software choice; just a starting point to begin gaining some experience understanding how to create a scene that might make the viewer want to spend some time there, as well as believable characters and beautiful or interesting places/situations. I'll probably have more than one tool eventually anyway. After all, my garage has several different types of hammers, screwdrivers, and sockets. Can't expect one tool to do everything, right? So naturally I would expect that my software toolbox might eventually have a variety of tools in it too.

Thanks in advance!

1 - I use all 3 - depends on what I want to do at that time or just to use it - so I don't forget how
2 - I do animation for fun - I use DS / no poser - Carrara adds to what I want to do and renders faster .
as for motion-capture - I am sure Daz will add some thing down the road .
I think they had some thing for sale a while back ( year or 2 ).

edit - to add link for some things I did
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/23006/

Subtropic Pixel

Stunning work; thanks.

evilproducer

The Carrara Cafe has some very nice Showcase galleries and links to the Carrara e-zine, C3de:

http://carraracafe.com/

http://carraracafe.com/c3de-issue-10-is-around-the-corner/

My Youtube channel has some animations I've done in Carrara. Anything CG on my channel is done in Carrara.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Evilproducer01

My most recent animation. It's really more of a WIP:
http://youtu.be/iS-sNje4k0o

A video I did recently that shows composited layers to build a complete scene:
http://youtu.be/79fyKOSUTsg

A video I did back in Carrara 5. I didn't build the T-rex, but I couldn't get the rigged figure into Carrara via Transposer (thank God you no longer need it), so I rigged it myself in Carrara.

http://youtu.be/taejI7yb2R0

Plus many more videos. Usually done as tests or proof of concepts.