2025 Dedication to a Long Lost Friend - Cripeman

Dartanbeck

Hello fellow Carraraists!

TUGPsx and I still play around in Carrara from time to time - Awesome software, how do we not?!!!

 

But as far as being an active user, sadly that is not me these days. But I still Loves me My Carrara!!!

Chatting around with many of my Carrara Pals had me day dreaming about a good friend whose illness took him from us at far too young of age - Cripeman.

 

Cripeman led us through so many Carrara topics and what's cool is that it didn't matter how 'popular' the topic was. Cripeman would show us how much fun it can be to use tools that others may have easily instructed us to avoid at all costs - which is very important. When I started trying Daz Studio, the DS forum clearly stated that "You Cannot Animate in Daz Studio". Maybe not in those words, but it was quick to turn away anyone asking if it was possible - people who said they'd never tried Daz Studio.

Well, you know me... I had to find a way to abolish such negativity - I simply won't have it!!! That accidentally got me stuck - having fun animating in Daz Studio! LOL

 

Back to the point.

Carrara has So Many Tools available to us. In my early days with the software, the forum had steered me away from many of them. "Don't use that. Use this instead" type of stuff. Whether one actually believes such things is irrelevant. When we read things often enough, well... we have enough stuff to learn in here anyways - it's easy to accidentally Not try something because we know we're not supposed to.

Cripeman's videos were the perfect avenue to get the real dirt on how wrong that sort of mentality can be - and he did so in a very timely, friendly, neighborly fashion - without arguing anyone's points either way - just demonstrating how things work and how to use it in creative ways.

 

I miss you, Cripeman, my friend! 

I know that, where you are you are making everyone feel better - that's just the kind of soul that you are - and I've always loved that about you!

 

If you've never been to the Cripeman Memorial but are a Carrara user, you may find that you've truly been missing out. It's a massive collection of video magazines all about Carrara!

Visit the Cripeman Memorial

Dartanbeck

Sample - Intro to Physics in Carrara

WendyLuvsCatz

sadly everything Cripeman did is still relevant because Carrara hasn't been updated by DAZ 

Studio now on the otherhand. I even do animations in it thanks to updates

both programs have their strengths, but only one is going to get it's weaknesses addressed by looks by subscription 

take that as you will

Dartanbeck

It's not that sad. Carrara still Rocks!!!

I have the Carrara Studio 3 Handbook and the Carrara 5 Pro Handbook and, while there are definitely differences in those older versions, it's fun that we can still learn from the pros from back then!

Headwax

That's lovely Dart. We should have a memorial thread for every one who has left us. Do you remember Brian? There was a memorial for him in C3DE  mag, but unfortunately cannot access the mags any more as they are locked down. 

 

Brian's favourite response to  questions on the forum was RTFM. which was read the $%^^% manual. :) 

WendyLuvsCatz

Headwax said:

That's lovely Dart. We should have a memorial thread for every one who has left us. Do you remember Brian? There was a memorial for him in C3DE  mag, but unfortunately cannot access the mags any more as they are locked down. 

 

Brian's favourite response to  questions on the forum was RTFM. which was read the $%^^% manual. :) 

I personally as a n00b found him rude AF

worse, after his death I learned his last name is one I knew well and he lived in the area where my friend by that name came from so was likely a close relative I may have even met

Headwax

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Headwax said:

That's lovely Dart. We should have a memorial thread for every one who has left us. Do you remember Brian? There was a memorial for him in C3DE  mag, but unfortunately cannot access the mags any more as they are locked down. 

 

Brian's favourite response to  questions on the forum was RTFM. which was read the $%^^% manual. :) 

I personally as a n00b found him rude AF

worse, after his death I learned his last name is one I knew well and he lived in the area where my friend by that name came from so was likely a close relative I may have even met

ha yes, he was rude as he got a bit older, I think he was loseing it towards the end .  He was quite polite to me on more than one occasion when I pointed out how to do things in carrara that he hadn't thought off - from memory - make a distorted lens in carrara  to blur out the periphery of your render - dont know if it worked 

 

what was his last name?

WendyLuvsCatz

Headwax said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

Headwax said:

That's lovely Dart. We should have a memorial thread for every one who has left us. Do you remember Brian? There was a memorial for him in C3DE  mag, but unfortunately cannot access the mags any more as they are locked down. 

 

Brian's favourite response to  questions on the forum was RTFM. which was read the $%^^% manual. :) 

I personally as a n00b found him rude AF

worse, after his death I learned his last name is one I knew well and he lived in the area where my friend by that name came from so was likely a close relative I may have even met

ha yes, he was rude as he got a bit older, I think he was loseing it towards the end .  He was quite polite to me on more than one occasion when I pointed out how to do things in carrara that he hadn't thought off - from memory - make a distorted lens in carrara  to blur out the periphery of your render 

 

what was his last name?

I don't want to Dox anyone but it was Rohde 

Headwax

thanks I see here he was bwtr ,  with the wizard hat  :)

 

 Brian 

 

Dartanbeck

Headwax

Sorry for hijacking thread Dart