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Latest updates, community highlights, interviews, and features from Carrara Cafe.
The Rebirth of Carrara Cafe: A Monument to a Legendary Community
After pushing this monumental task aside due to life changes, Carrara Cafe is officially rebuilt as a fast, secure, and resilient …
10 Reasons You Need a Falloff Shader Plugin
What if I told you there is a single effect that can deliver more visual impact from your renders, allowing you to redefine …
Carranimation Part 1 – Rotation of the Hip
Carrara has a vast array of little check boxes and fields to fill in that help us to have things animate on their own with just a …
Carrara/Marvelous Designer Walkthrough by booksbydavid
A Carrara/Marvelous Designer Walk through by David Collins/booksbydavid Marvelous Designer is a clothing design program that …
Creating cloths for Poser
Carrara now will talk to Daz Studio with a new file format that DAZ 3D is testing, so its time to add Daz Studio to our new …
ERC MADE EASY – Enhancing Facial Realism
Fenric has created for us a very powerful animation automation tool with the Carrara ERC plug-in. As such there are some great …
Escaping Gravity – 10 Tips for Photoreal Planets
Enhance:C Space3D Shaders and Primivol help create this original planet Realistic Earth-like planets in Carrara! Need a high …
Essential Plugins for Carrara
There are quite a few plugins available for Carrara. Which ones do you need? Which will add major features, and which are the most …
Luxus for Carrara Manual (PDF)
For all users who are interested in a Luxus PDF manual, here it is. Thanks to Spheric Labs for his permission. This unofficial …
Luxus the Luxrender plugin for Carrara – Development/documentation blog 20130601
The new Luxus the Luxrender plugin for Carrara is being developed by Spheric Labs at a very rapid rate. This blog is supposed to …
LuxusCore for Carrara plugin – Unofficial manual 2016-01-23
An unofficial CarraraCafe manual for the upcoming LuxusCore plugin for Carrara, that brings GPU accelerated rendering and realtime …
Major Production – My Production
A brief word about how I juggle the creation of my own meager, yet somewhat epic in scale, production in Carrara Amidst the …
Mocap into Carrara – by CyBoRgTy
A Pirate’s Quest by CyBoRgTy uses motion capture to animate in Carrara Mocap in Carrara – by CyBoRgTy Animating in Carrara can be …
New DAZ Install Manager and Carrara 8.5 benefits *UPDATED*
The new DAZ Install Manager (DIM) has been announced in the Platinum Club newsletter and the Daz3D forums as well. While it seems …
Optimizing Your Content – Shader Basics
**Materials (Shader) Optimization in Carrara ** Truly optimizing is, by definition, uniquely different from one individual’s needs …
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Please enjoy C3DE the way it was intended, as a magazine in fullscreen! or download Full-res PDF and bonus files Issue 10 | Issue …
We just recovered from big crash and are still working on fixes.
Hello, As some of you may know Carrara Cafe was recently hacked. We have recovered from the crash, however there are still some …
What Content can I use in Carrara?
By Dartanbeck Carrara is unlike all other modeler apps out there – and one of the huge differences is its built in ability to use …