who else came to Carrara from Poser / Vue? ;0
Mistara
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reminiscing over old poser renders i been meaning to redo in carrara one day.
looking back at my ds renders, they mostly ds 4.0
i stopped rendering with ds at ver 4.7, never took to the 4.8
i gave up on poser at pp2012. dunno how they went from ppro2012 to poser 11?
i gave up on maya at v 5 and 3ds6, didnt want to buy the upgrades
old poser
od ds.40/3dl
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I switched from Poser to Carrara many years ago, when I learned that Carrara can seamlessly load Poser content directly from its browser, and more importantly can handle large animated scenes much better than Poser. I still use Vue and Poser, but generally only for content that won't work in Carrara. E.g. ERC items in Poser, and "locked" purchased items in VUE. But 95+% of my animation work is in Carrara. I do not use DS, and gave up trying to get DS content into Carrara.
came from anim8or after I got Carrara 5 on a disc ? it was a pleasure noyt having to model all my own stuff any more and have access to Ik
...and I came from iClone 3
after I got Carrara 5 on a magazine disc
but Mystiarra didn't ask about us stragglers
oh I just like to butt in occasionally :)
I've had Poser since Poser 2. Frankly, I never did many final renders with it, just like I don't do many renders with Carrara now. My entries in the Carrara Challenge, Studio New Users Challenge, Lola's music and poetry thread, and the Bryce Challenge probably make up 95%+ of my lifetime renders.
At my old full time job, I did used to throw together a Poser or Carrara rough draft and give it to our graphics folks so they could fix it up for a presentation slide or publication graphic. But I never had to get it looking nice, just convey the essential elements to the real graphic artists. If I was teaching a class, occasionally I'd put something together for a presentation slide.
I wonder if that is why I was never particularly interested in photo-realism? Something closer to clip-art was usually a better fit.
RE: subject matter - I assume that viewers in a Carrara Challenge, etc. are not particularly interested in a flow chart of securitized peer-to-peer lending laws. However, if I can disguise that background, I know people would like a comic book / space opera of Brash and Moxie confronting the issues caused by securitized peer-to-peer lending.
I started with a product called Swivel3D in the late 1980's. It was in black and white (not even grey scale). I graduated to Infini-D and then Carrara after that. I think I had Carrara 1.0 originally. At some point I also used Showplace from Pixar.
it was fun to watch the p4 renderer when i got my 1st pentium. render starts at the bottom.
my 1st carrara was 6, i think. i remember my 1st ca didnt have png option
Started my 3D journey with Gmax, FSDS, 3DCanvas & Lightray3D. Playing with E-dolls was a late starter with Poser 9, then DAZ Studio 4. Eventually settled for Carrara 8.5 and have not looked back !!!!