Here is an example of one I really like:

https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/checkers/?text=CARRARA&anim=1

like a big old lick in the gelato,

but poor treat totally fell over'

is there a way to make the albedo map grayscale, right there in the bump channel with multiply magic?

invert color doesnt help much.  there prolly some way to desaturate and dehue ?

thanks

Here's a few magical symbols made with Philmeno's excellent cutout plugin . - Carrara Time Savers - Browse Files at SourceForge.net

The triquetre as clumsily modelled in the model room. The triple spiral you can take into the model room, select all and then Model>add thickness

I’m not sure how to upload a car file to sharecg – so hints on that would be handy.

These are just a couple of magical symbols. The txt suffix needs to be changed to car.

could call jarjar's  a water planet 

badlands planet
 

final fantasy x had biones

and a shoopuff

beware rigs, spiders, held together by point at. does something dodgy to geometry.

beware rigid groups

in the leap from the lions head, he is not saved

I have not tried this, but a reliable source mentioned it.

https://www.boredpanda.com/illustrated-cafe-2d-cafe-bw-russia/

Red cube is my "measure" object against . Here I have lined up and made the center point at the base so I can scale until it touches the other end to measure.
Note: This can get crazy as it takes many moves to do (add, scale, change center point and rescale and of course position next to what you are measuring).
I am then simply noting the height of the measure cube. There has to be a better way? A 3rd partyC arrara plugin maybe?

 

Can someone explain why the Storyboard room is so handy?

I just finished this trailer promoting my Crowd Funding Campaign for my new board game.

All the game art and the animation in the trailer was created in Carrara 8.5. I used AE for the Compositing.

You can Follow my campaign by clicking this link. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/canonquestfocus/canonquest-focus

Well, I had a few mins, so I thought I would share some hints for working in Carrara.
These hints would have saved me a lot of time if I had known them initially.

1) when you load carrara (if you have a lot of content) don't let it search for your runtimes, add the folders manually :)

2) Next Edit your Preferences, especially the views shortcuts. Assign Left Right Top Bottom to the numerical pad's appropriate arrows. Assign number 3 (page down) to Director's Camera. This will be one of your most used keys.

GETTING AROUND in THE ASSEMBLY ROOM

3) when you drop an object into the assembly room and can't find it, look for it in the instances tab (the list over on the bottom right).
Click the object to select it. Then hit the zero button, and your view will zoom in on the object.

4) On the top left of the assembly room window you will see "Camera 1".

This means you are looking through Camera 1. This is bad because if you change your viewpoint then it will get added to the UNDO list. It will also animate the camera if you are doing an animation. So click on where it says Camera 1 and you will get a drop down list. Select Director's Camera. Always do your posing etc while in Director's Camera. It will make life easier for you. Especially if you have assigned Director's Camera to Button 3.

5) To pan sideways hold down the tab key and the left mouse key.

6) To orbit your selected object hold down the "alt" key and use the left mouse key to pan around that object.

7) To select an object when there are several objects overlapping right click in the area and you will get a drop down list of objects in that area to select.

8) the ALIGN OBJECTS shortcut is one you will use often as well. First select the object you want to align to, then shift select the next so they are both selected. Click Ctrl>K this will bring up a window with alignment parameters. Click x,y and z. This will align the hot points.

9) Hotpoints. The hotpoint of an object is what it will rotate around. Usually you want it in the centre. However a lot of meshes and CLOUDS come in with the hot point decentred.

To fix a hotpoint in Car 8.1 look at the top right of your window. Hit the tab that says "Motion". Then you will find a window that has lots of numbers. There will be two buttons that say (from memory) object to hotpoint , or hotpoint to object. Click on the one you want.

10) To change the hot point of an object manually use caps lock and drag the arrows.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

11) Instead of using Carrara's fog use Clouds.

12) If you plan to use Carrara seriously grab Fenric's plugin for keyboard shortcuts for travelling down the instances list. You will love it.

13) Fenric's other Plugin that you really should get is Shader Doctor. Shader Doctor allows you to reset POSER shaders en masse on a figure so that their highlights aren't blown out. Otherwise on eg Stonemasons Emerald Forest you will be there all day and still miss some shaders.

14) Carrara comes with standard ambient light at 20 percent. Get rid of it or your renders will be washed out.

feel welcome to add to this list if you like.

https://www.benq.com/en-ap/knowledge-center/knowledge/gamma-monitor.html

FanArt

Came across this fanart render I did related to the movie Silent Running.  Was for one of the monthly challenges. 

I am impressed with the work and the quantity of renders!  Good luck to all!

Remember there is still time to submit your work!

Entry thread closed and voting begins Friday April 30th
Voting ends Saturday May 8th

Please use the following format for your entries:

Entry #:
Title:
Artist:
Links to WIP thread:
Credits:
Discussion:

trying to limit constrains on camera movement.

was guessing rotate limits would be ball joints?

wanted to lock the x rocking.  limit tilt up n down by 45/-10 degrees.  
but not locking the zoom in and out. and not lock the frame by hitting 0.
my efforts are locking everything but the tilt. with ball joint on, 0 doesnt work.  cant scroll in.

is my machine possessed?

I’ve had only a few troll comments, one of whom I recognized from the Renderosity Carrara Forum.  He was on a mission to convince everybody that it was stupid to even use Carrara.  And of course, he posted none of his own work anywhere.  So he got a lot of well deserved pushback …

I certainly animate whatever I want to, it’s just a hobby for my own amusement.  If somebody doesn’t like it, they’re entitled to their opinion.  But I’m glad I’m not relying on view numbers for income, that would make it … work!  (Spoken with a Maynard G. Krebs accent ... geezer alert):

i saved a master pose, selected some expression morphs.  the tiles is sitting in the clips mini tab.

i selected the figure (toon dragon) double clicked the tile tab.  his expression didnt change.
double clicked the thumbnail in the browser tray clips tab. it opened a new document window.

next i dragged the tiles to the sequencer, hit play.  his expressions didn't change.

i didnt want to make a nla clip, just wanted to apply a single pose at frame 0.

help!!

theres no shader domains, so it's not transparency.

has anybody figured it out?

Thanks.

sigh. and making pelvis invisible takes out more polies than it should.

I am just trying out Adobe Mixamo Characters Animations in Carrara.

I was able to import the Character in FBX format. It comes with animations. 

Mixamo

wondering i can use it to keep track of the stuff i've installed to carrara?

can it show only my carrara installed stuff in the smart tab?

Thanks.

what does it do?

thanks!

https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/88523/carrara-presets-for-genesis-81

See the WIP Thread Here - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/475831/a-li-l-side-render-fun-2022-tuesday-is-soylent-green-day-edition/p1

Please vote for three (3) entries.

When voting for your three, please using the following format.

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Dystopian Science Fiction

I am offering a $10 Daz3D gift card for a first place and a second place Carrara rendered image (or Carrara plug in renderer).  Why?  Because "Tuesday is Soylent Green Day."  You don't have to incorporate Soylent Green.  You can imagine any dystopia you want, or refer to any other dystopia imagined by anyone else.

Here in Texas, we are saying that the pandemic year 2020 was hell, and 2021 was the year hell froze over.  Brrrr.  Well, a quick check of a scifi movie chart shows that next year, 2022, is the year that the movie Soylent Green was set in.  Have you seen Soylent Green?  It is a movie about people.  

Requirements - use Carrara in your workflow for an image displaying a dystopian future.  Post your image in the designated entry thread when the time comes.  You can use scene assets (props, figures, lights, shaders,...) from any source, not just Carrara. Postwork is fine, but please post the un-postworked render in the WIP thread.  Speaking of that, at least one work-in-progress post to this discussion thread is required.  The render must be new (started and finished during the time of the Lil Side Render Fun).  Have fun.

Dates - to be announced, but this WIP thread will be open at least through March 31st.  May 1st.

Dystopia defined on the internet
Definition of dystopia
1: an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives
Use in sentence, "There's almost a flavor of science fiction to the scenes Chilson describes, as though he were giving us a glimpse into a 21st-century dystopia of mad egoism and hurtling hulks of metal."
— Adam Goodheart
"Over the course of the movie, the late-60's ideal of togetherness turns into a dystopia of violence, revulsion and finally death."
— John Leland
2: ANTI-UTOPIA sense 2
writing a dystopia
Use in a sentence, "… leaping across the century to the 1990's to attempt a dystopia about the disintegration of Australian democracy into startling, irreversible despotism."
— Pearl K. Bell

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/carrara/8_5/start

Keep in mind that currently only the new features are documented in the wiki. For previous versions of Carrara refer to the Carrara section of the old Artzone wiki: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/artzone/pub/software/carrara/start

i dunno why, but i thought clicking the double down arrows would show a selection of body parts under root to quickly get to the head and expression morphs,  it's the toon dragon, no face rig is all morph based.

is there a way, after saving the figure to carrara, to show all the morphs in the figure without drilling down to the head?

thanks.