Carrara Tutorials

Discover techniques, workflows, modeling tips, and render guides for Carrara.

“God Rays” Video
Lighting & Rendering

“God Rays”

“God Rays” or sunbeams are now possible with the Realistic Sky in Carrara 8. Watch YouTube Video Related …

“Paint with Shadows” – An exercise in Global Illumination Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

“Paint with Shadows” – An exercise in Global Illumination

A lengthy explanation, as usual, this GI/IL Test Bed is a tutorial regarding setting up a scene for exploring …

2D and 3D Objects Video
Beginner Guides

2D and 3D Objects

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial. Easy to follow …

360° Camera Animation (orbit camera) Video
Animation

360° Camera Animation (orbit camera)

Parent a camera to a helper object with a a spin modifier for a camera that orbits 360° around an object. …

3D DOF in Photoshop Post-production Video
Lighting & Rendering

3D DOF in Photoshop Post-production

Watch YouTube Video The fastest way to create DOF effect in your renders without to waste the long time that …

3D Paint Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

3D Paint

In this tutorial Cripeman overviews Carrara’s 3D Paint features. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Trees on …

3D Paint – Part I Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

3D Paint – Part I

Here is my first tutorial about the 3D Paint feature in Carrara. I will cover other points in another video. …

3D Text Modeler Video
Modeling Animation

3D Text Modeler

Watch YouTube Video Create 3D text of any character set you have installed on your system easily with the Text …

3Point Lighting Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Beginner Guides

3Point Lighting

Cripeman will show you how to set up a 3-point lighting rig to light your portraits. Watch YouTube Video …

A couple of things about fonts Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

A couple of things about fonts

Watch YouTube Video “Some things about fonts and how to play with them in Carrara.” by cripeman Related Posts: …

A Guide to using Tweeners in 3D Animation Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering Animation Beginner Guides

A Guide to using Tweeners in 3D Animation

Watch YouTube Video Tweeners are the motion between two keyframes of animation. Here I discuss a range of …

Add a custom morph to fix poke-through on a posed figure Video
Modeling Beginner Guides

Add a custom morph to fix poke-through on a posed figure

Bruce from DAZ 3D shows how to fix poke-through with a custom morph, by editing the mesh directly on the posed …

Add Shader Layers Video
Shaders & Textures

Add Shader Layers

Add another layer to a Multi Shader (silent). Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Making Graffiti New shaders …

Alternatives To Create More Realistic Direct Lights (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Alternatives To Create More Realistic Direct Lights (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Alternatives To Create More Realistic Direct …

Ambient And Ambient Occlusion (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Ambient And Ambient Occlusion (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Ambient And Ambient Occlusion (free tutorials by …

aniBlock Importer for Carrara by GoFigure Video
Animation Plugins & Extensions

aniBlock Importer for Carrara by GoFigure

Watch YouTube Video A tutorial for using GoFigure’s aniBlock Importer for Carrara. Created by Jon Erickson …

Animated Textures onto Uv Mapped models Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Animated Textures onto Uv Mapped models Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Using the Blade Runner inspired Dirigible with an animated advert. This tutorial shows two …

Animating a Flag (modifiers) Video
Animation

Animating a Flag (modifiers)

Watch YouTube Video Simple tutorial on how to animate a flag using the wave modifier. Related Posts: Textured …

Animating Eddie in Carrara 8 Video
Modeling Animation Beginner Guides

Animating Eddie in Carrara 8

Watch YouTube Video Join Barbara Bastrup as she demonstrates the basics of character animation using …

Animating Wavy Text Video
Animation

Animating Wavy Text

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to animate text with a wave modifier. Watch YouTube Video …

Modeling Animation

Another gear tutorial for Carrara

Here’s another tutorial on creating gears in the vertex modeller. The subject was inspired by Cripeman’s …

Applying Grunge/Blood textures in Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures

Applying Grunge/Blood textures in Carrara

This 2-part shader tutorial shows how to add dirt, grunge, and blood textures to your shaders in Carrara’s …

Atmosphere Tutorial Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Atmosphere Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman shows how to give your planet some atmosphere with a 3D Cloud, skipping textures …

Auto-Fit in Carrara 8.5 for V4 to Genesis clothing Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Auto-Fit in Carrara 8.5 for V4 to Genesis clothing

Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Importing And Finding Smart Content In Carrara 8.5 Thoughts on Carrara 8.5 …

Backdrop and Background Video
Lighting & Rendering

Backdrop and Background

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman explores using image maps as a backdrop, and Carrara’s gradient in the …

Basic Bullet in Carrara 8 Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Basic Bullet in Carrara 8

Here the basics about hardbody simulation in Carrara 8 using the new bullet system Watch YouTube Video Related …

Basic Bullet in Carrara 8: constrain Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Basic Bullet in Carrara 8: constrain

More about rigidbody bullet in Carrara 8: constrain. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: BulletBall Carrara 8 …

Basic Bullet in Carrara 8: Forces Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Basic Bullet in Carrara 8: Forces

Here how to use scene Forces with the new bullet system in Carrara 8 Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Basic dress modeling Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Basic dress modeling

A basic tutorial about how to model a dress in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Universal …

Basic Lighting Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Basic Lighting

In this tutorial Cripeman will reveal a few tricks that will help to get the most of your lights in the scene. …

Basic Lighting in Carrara Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Basic Lighting in Carrara Tutorial

Tour of the lights in Carrara 7 Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: “Paint with Shadows” – An exercise in …

Basic Textures and Shading in Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Basic Textures and Shading in Carrara

Tour of Carrara’s shader interface Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Natural Shaders tour Basic Lighting in …

Beginner Lighting Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Beginner Lighting Tutorial

Beginner Lighting Tutorial and concepts by Richard Donato. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Faking HDRI …

Bevels in Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering

Bevels in Carrara

Watch YouTube Video Bevels in Carrara by cripeman Related Posts: Atmosphere Tutorial Making oil paintings …

Birds in Trees Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

Birds in Trees

Watch YouTube Video Surface Replicator and 3D Paint adds a family of little birds to a Carrara tree. Related …

Bones Influence Video
Modeling Animation Beginner Guides

Bones Influence

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to affect the way that bones influence your objects. Watch YouTube …

Border Rendering Tool for Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering

Border Rendering Tool for Carrara

Watch YouTube Video Woods Creation has created a morphing area-mask tool that parents to the Carrara camera to …

Bouncing ball tutorial Video
Animation Beginner Guides

Bouncing ball tutorial

Watch YouTube Video CyBoRgTy quickly created this to show how he animated the bouncing ball in an animation he …

Bridge Tool Video
Modeling

Bridge Tool

Watch YouTube Video The Bridge tool builds a connecting surface between two different mesh selections. It is …

Brushing hair Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Brushing hair

Here some basics about how to use the new feature hair in Carrara 6. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Hair …

Bryce Terrains to Carrara Terrains Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

Bryce Terrains to Carrara Terrains

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to export Bryce generated terrain to Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Bryce Textures In Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Bryce Textures In Carrara

Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Generate HDRI in Bryce for Carrara Bryce Terrains to Carrara Terrains …

Bulb light Video
Lighting & Rendering

Bulb light

A intro to bulb light in Carrara Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Volumetric light Tube lights Spotlights …

Bullet 02 Carrara 8 exercise Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Bullet 02 Carrara 8 exercise

You can get the CAR file in the link below: Watch YouTube Video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HPBFEXAQ Related …

Bullet Curtain Carrara 8 exercise Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

Bullet Curtain Carrara 8 exercise

You can get the CAR file in the link below: Watch YouTube Video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VMCGXHXK Related …

Bullet water Carrara 8 exercise Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

Bullet water Carrara 8 exercise

You can get the CAR file in the link below: Watch YouTube Video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6OQTFZXU Related …

BulletBall Carrara 8 exercise Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

BulletBall Carrara 8 exercise

You can get the CAR file in the link below: Watch YouTube Video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OB3XVJ37 Related …

BVH Carnegie Mocap for Carrara tutorial Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Plugins & Extensions Beginner Guides

BVH Carnegie Mocap for Carrara tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video ScifiFunk will show you how to cut down the large …

Car Crash Tutorial Video
Modeling Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

Car Crash Tutorial

Tutorial showing how AgeOfArmour’s GT40 vs Ball Bearing video was made. This video is not in depth but does …

Carrara 8 modeling trick tutorial Video
Modeling Beginner Guides

Carrara 8 modeling trick tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Carrara Pro’s vertex modeler has a feature that is not in Carrara Standard: Extract Along… …

Carrara 8 Physics Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Carrara 8 Physics

In this tutorial by DAZ 3D you will be introduced to the Bullet physics in Carrara 8. Watch YouTube Video …

Modeling

Carrara 8 Pro tutorial – filled wine bottle and scene

Quick method of modeling a partially filled wine bottle object (Part 1) and realistic scene with plaster walls …

Carrara 8 Soft Body Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Carrara 8 Soft Body Tutorial

Carrara 8 Soft Body Tutorial by Guido Diaz. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Working with Physics in Carrara …

Carrara 8.5 – First Look Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Carrara 8.5 – First Look

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video In this video, I ramble on as I toss Genesis and M5 with some of the …

Carrara 8.5 Light Shapes Video
Lighting & Rendering

Carrara 8.5 Light Shapes

See the new light shapes/icons now available in Carrara. This video shows how to access the new light …

Carrara animación bonnes Video
General

Carrara animación bonnes

Tutorial de animación por bonnes en Carrara 3D Tutorial para la configuración de huesos, agregar IK inverse …

Animation

Carrara Camera Shake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeyj74vq1Ew This one is about producing a camera shake effect inside of …

Carrara Car Modeling Tutorial Series by Lance Brown (Part 1-12) Video
Modeling Animation

Carrara Car Modeling Tutorial Series by Lance Brown (Part 1-12)

Part 1 Watch YouTube Video Part 2 Watch YouTube Video Part 3 Watch YouTube Video Part 4 Watch YouTube Video …

Carrara Car Modeling Tutorial Series by Lance Brown (Part 13-23) Video
Carrara EnvironKit – Woodlands: Build a Scene Video
Terrain & Environments

Carrara EnvironKit – Woodlands: Build a Scene

Watch YouTube Video Dartanbeck’s EnvironKit leverage the power of Carrara’s nature, terrain, and environment …

Carrara EnvironKit – Woodlands: GettingStarted Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

Carrara EnvironKit – Woodlands: GettingStarted

Watch YouTube Video Dartanbeck’s EnvironKit series leverage the power of Carrara’s nature, terrain, and …

Carrara Glare Filter demo Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Carrara Glare Filter demo

Watch YouTube Video One of the least used and rarely discussed filters in Carrara is the “Glare” filter. …

Carrara Lighting Trick – no light cones needed! Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Carrara Lighting Trick – no light cones needed!

A texture/shader hack to create a faux volumetric lighting effect suitable for room interiors. Watch YouTube …

Carrara Multi-Channel Mixer Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Carrara Multi-Channel Mixer Tutorial

An introduction on Carrara Multi-channel mixer shaders. Watch YouTube Video This type of shader might look …

Carrara Network Rendering Survival Guide Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Carrara Network Rendering Survival Guide

How to actually render with Carrara and multiple machines without pulling your hair out in frustration. Watch …

Carrara Plant Generator Overview Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Carrara Plant Generator Overview

In this tutorial Cripeman overviews Carrara’s Plant Generator. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Trees on …

Carrara Render Settings (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Carrara Render Settings (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Carrara Render Settings (free tutorials by Phil …

Carrara Rigging Made Easy Video
Modeling Animation Beginner Guides

Carrara Rigging Made Easy

Explaining the first steps to simple rigging in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube …

Carrara Rooms Tutorials – The Beginning Video
Beginner Guides

Carrara Rooms Tutorials – The Beginning

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial that introduces …

Carrara Terrains Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Carrara Terrains

In this tutorial Cripeman introduces you to Carrara Terrain generator. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Carrara to Blender by Woods Creation Video
Lighting & Rendering

Carrara to Blender by Woods Creation

Woods Creation has published three tutorials on exporting Carrara models and scenes to Blender, with the help …

Carrara to Unity Animation Troubles Video
Animation Terrain & Environments

Carrara to Unity Animation Troubles

Watch YouTube Video Kre8or: “I haven’t had any luck getting a file into Unity that works. I’ve tried several …

Carrara Vertex Modeling Tutorial Video
Modeling Animation

Carrara Vertex Modeling Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Psy-Cube Vertex Model from Photos Making And Using …

Carrara Walk Through: Shaders Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Carrara Walk Through: Shaders

Watch YouTube Video In this first installment, I begin to cover the complexities of Carrara’s powerful shader …

Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Plugins & Extensions

Carrara/Marvelous Designer Walkthrough by booksbydavid

A Carrara/Marvelous Designer Walk through by David Collins/booksbydavid Marvelous Designer is a clothing …

Character Rigging Tutorial Series (by Lance Brown) Video
Modeling Animation

Character Rigging Tutorial Series (by Lance Brown)

Part 1 Watch YouTube Video Part 2 Watch YouTube Video Part 3 Watch YouTube Video Part 4 Watch YouTube Video …

City Bullet Carrara 8 exercise Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

City Bullet Carrara 8 exercise

You can get the CAR file in the link below: Watch YouTube Video http://www.megaupload.com/?d=II46TVCN Related …

Cloud Nine Tutorials Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

Cloud Nine Tutorials

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Dimension Theory demonstrates his Cloud Nine product for Carrara, …

Collision Detection Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Collision Detection

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial . Collision …

Complex Lighting Tutorial by Mark Bremmer Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Complex Lighting Tutorial by Mark Bremmer

3D World magazine commissioned Mark Bremmer to do a tutorial on lighting in Carrara. He has posted the full …

Compositing Tips Video
Lighting & Rendering

Compositing Tips

Cripeman will show some compositing tips in Carrara, including Multi-Pass rendering, video with alpha channel …

Conforming cloths in Carrara 6 Video
General

Conforming cloths in Carrara 6

Here some idea about how to use Poser stuff into Carrara 6. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime folder …

Modeling Shaders & Textures Animation

Convert a Prop to Conforming Quickie Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpWQwSxH_M Wendy shows how to get a prop to conform to a figure using the …

Crankshaft Animation tutorial (3 methods) Video
Animation

Crankshaft Animation tutorial (3 methods)

This video illustrates the process of animating a crankshaft using three methods in Carrara 6 Pro: keyframes, …

Create Specular Skin Effects in CARRARA Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Create Specular Skin Effects in CARRARA

Watch YouTube Video 7-minute tutorial shows how to make human skin look more realistic in CARRARA. …

Creating a “Planet Hanging in the Sky” Effect Video
Lighting & Rendering

Creating a “Planet Hanging in the Sky” Effect

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to create a “Planet Hanging in the Sky” effect. Watch YouTube …

Creating a walk cycle in Carrara Video
Modeling Animation

Creating a walk cycle in Carrara

Detailed 4-part tutorial. Prep your figure and create a walkcycle using NLA tracks. Watch YouTube Video Watch …

Creating Clips in Carrara Video
Animation

Creating Clips in Carrara

This is a answer to this thread: http://carraralounge.com/index.php?topic=522 Watch YouTube Video Related …

Creating lights From Textures Using Anything Glows Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Creating lights From Textures Using Anything Glows

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman sets up AnythingGlows lights in a scene, which causes parts of the mesh to appear …

Creating Polygonal Grass Segments Video
Modeling Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments

Creating Polygonal Grass Segments

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Dimension Theory creates very low-poly grass with the Spline Modeler …

Creating Realistic Sky And Sun Lighting With Light Domes Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Creating Realistic Sky And Sun Lighting With Light Domes

Step by step how to create your own multicolored and directional light domes. Watch YouTube Video Watch …

Creating thumbs for Carrara in P3DoExplorer Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Creating thumbs for Carrara in P3DoExplorer

Here a simple video that show how to use the new feature in P3DoExplorer to create custom thumbnails for …

Démo d’un rig facile dans Carrara avec orientations Video
Modeling Animation Beginner Guides

Démo d’un rig facile dans Carrara avec orientations

Watch YouTube Video Démo d’un rig facile dans Carrara avec orientations Related Posts: model & rig a …

Démonstration de l’utilisation de puppeteer et carrara Video
Animation Beginner Guides

Démonstration de l’utilisation de puppeteer et carrara

Watch YouTube Video Démonstration de l’utilisation de puppeteer et carrara pour animer des personnages Related …

Depth of Field Video
Lighting & Rendering

Depth of Field

Cripeman explains Depth of Field in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Atmosphere Tutorial Making oil …

Modeling Shaders & Textures

Displacement & Microdisplacement Mapping

The displacement mapping in Carrara lets you deform the surface of an object using a shading function (texture …

Displacement mapping tips for Carrara by Cripeman Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Displacement mapping tips for Carrara by Cripeman

A couple of tips about displacement mapping in Carrara by Cripeman: Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Merry …

Displacement Modeling Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures

Displacement Modeling

Watch YouTube Video You can paint details with the greatest of ease, almost as easily as you would freehand. …

Distant and Ambient Lights Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Distant and Ambient Lights

Introduction to how Distant and Ambient Lights sources work in Carrara Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Duplicating and Grouping Objects Video
General

Duplicating and Grouping Objects

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial that shows how to …

Dynamic Extrusion Tool Video
Modeling Animation

Dynamic Extrusion Tool

Watch YouTube Video Mike Moir demonstrates using Carrara’s Dynamic Extrusion Tool. Carrara Modeling Tutorials …

Dynamic Hair Shader – timelapse/walk-through Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Dynamic Hair Shader – timelapse/walk-through

Watch YouTube Video timelapse/walk-through exploring some of Carrara’s Dynamic Hair Shader parameters applied …

Dynamic Hair Styling Tips Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Dynamic Hair Styling Tips

Watch YouTube Video In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn basics of how to style dynamic hair using …

Easy 3D Coins Modelling Tutorial Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Beginner Guides

Easy 3D Coins Modelling Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video How to make 3D coins. A beginners tutorial and a gentle introduction to the Vertex …

Easy Bullet Physics and Keyframes Tutorial Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Easy Bullet Physics and Keyframes Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video In this example I show how to toss coins into a cardboard box. The emphasis is on being …

Easy Ghost Tutorial Video
Beginner Guides

Easy Ghost Tutorial

Using a basic film editing software and Carrara 6, this is a very simple tutorial for creating great ghost …

Electrical Effect animated shader Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

Electrical Effect animated shader

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman uses the marble shader and Aura to build an animated electrical effect, the type …

Environmental Lighting (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Environmental Lighting (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Environmental Lighting (free tutorials by Phil …

Exporting Animated Poses from Poser to Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering

Exporting Animated Poses from Poser to Carrara

Watch YouTube Video How to export poses from Poser to animate in Carrara. Related Posts: Poser Runtime into …

Exporting from Carrara to Octane Part 1 Video
Lighting & Rendering Plugins & Extensions

Exporting from Carrara to Octane Part 1

Here the first steps to export OBJ files from Carrara (here Carrara 8) to render in the Octane GPU Render …

Fake GI Video
Lighting & Rendering

Fake GI

Setting up fake Global Illumination in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Fake Subsurface Scattering Concepts Video
Shaders & Textures Plugins & Extensions

Fake Subsurface Scattering Concepts

Fake subsurface scattering with a falloff shader. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: 10 Reasons You Need a …

Faking HDRI Lighting Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

Faking HDRI Lighting

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Faking Image Based Lighting and global …

Fast Daytime Lighting for 3d Animation Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Fast Daytime Lighting for 3d Animation

Watch YouTube Video In this 3d animation tutorial, I uncover a way of emulating indirect lighting and to a …

Fast Night Time Lighting for 3D Animation Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Animation Beginner Guides

Fast Night Time Lighting for 3D Animation

Watch YouTube Video The basic idea is to use moonlight with 4 distant lights each with their own colour …

Fence (Balustrade) Tutorial Video
Modeling

Fence (Balustrade) Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video From Spline to Vertex modeler, 3D Boolean and …

Shaders & Textures Animation Plugins & Extensions

Fenric’s Change Bone Visibilty Plugin

Fenric has many plugins available for Carrara. I think that most are now available through the DAZ 3D store, …

Fingers of God Video
Lighting & Rendering

Fingers of God

In this tutorial Cripeman reviews some of the features available in the Spot Light in Carrara. Watch YouTube …

Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

First Steps Physics by 3dage

In Carrara Physics there are two main types of object, “Rigid Body” such as a table or chair, and “Soft Body” …

Fixing Poser shaders Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids

Fixing Poser shaders

Following our last tutorial its time to fix Poser shaders in Carrara. Here a step by step about fix hair, …

Fountain Tricks Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Fountain Tricks

In this tutorial Cripeman shows a very impressive use of Fountain primitive to create stunning effects! Watch …

Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments Plugins & Extensions

Fresnel Effect

In a transparent material like glass, the reflection and transparency depends on the angle of view. For …

Frosted Glass Video
Shaders & Textures

Frosted Glass

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to create a frosted glass. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Transparency …

Full DAZ 3D Content Support Video
Animation

Full DAZ 3D Content Support

Watch YouTube Video Now all DAZ 3D content works in Carrara! In addition to the handling of morph targets, …

Full Indirect Lighting (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Full Indirect Lighting (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Full Indirect Lighting (free tutorials by Phil …

Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids

Fur Tutorial Comicbook

Related Posts: Dynamic Hair Shader – timelapse/walk-through Hair Tutorial Series 2 by Jonstark Hair Tutorials …

Gamma And Linear Workflow In Carrara (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Gamma And Linear Workflow In Carrara (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Gamma And Linear Workflow In Carrara (free …

Generate HDRI in Bryce for Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Generate HDRI in Bryce for Carrara

Watch YouTube Video How to make use of Bryce to generate HDRi (High Dynamic Range image) maps. Related Posts: …

Getting Bump Maps to Display on Your Figures…. Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Getting Bump Maps to Display on Your Figures….

Watch YouTube Video “Getting Bump Maps to Display on Your Figures…” by cripeman Related Posts: Atmosphere …

Glare, Blur and 3D Aura Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

Glare, Blur and 3D Aura

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to apply Glare, Blur and 3D Aura effects in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video …

Global Illumination Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Global Illumination

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman explores Global Illumination, specifically using a Bi-Gradient in the Background …

Glowing lips in Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures

Glowing lips in Carrara

How to make Vic’s lips shine. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Real eyes for Victoria 4 Create Specular Skin …

GoZ for Carrara: Morphs Video
Plugins & Extensions

GoZ for Carrara: Morphs

Watch YouTube Video DAZ 3D offers a new tool for modelers to transfer data from Carrara to ZBrush via a new …

Groups, Nested groups and Hierarchy Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Groups, Nested groups and Hierarchy

Learn about Groups, Nested groups and Hierarchy in Carrara Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Universal …

Hair Segments Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids

Hair Segments Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video “A quick tutorial about Carrara hair and the number of segments that should be used for …

Hair Tutorial Series 2 by Jonstark Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

Hair Tutorial Series 2 by Jonstark

Carrara Hair Tutorials Series 2 In Seven Parts by Jonstark Watch YouTube Video **Part 1 – Other Tools …

Hair Tutorials Series by Jonstark Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Hair Tutorials Series by Jonstark

Carrara Hair Tutorials Series In Seven Parts by Jonstark Watch YouTube Video Part 1 – Overview (“Carrara Hair …

HDR ReLight with Oloneo Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

HDR ReLight with Oloneo

A simple tutorial using Oloneo engione www.oloneo.com to enhance your final rendered image. Watch YouTube …

HDRI files and Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

HDRI files and Carrara

Understand how HDRI files work in Carrara Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: HDR ReLight with Oloneo Generate …

Holes without boolean operations Video
Modeling

Holes without boolean operations

A simple view on how to cut holes holes without the need for boolean operations in Carrara. Watch YouTube …

How to Build a Big Set for 3D Animation Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering Animation Beginner Guides

How to Build a Big Set for 3D Animation

ScifiFunk talks as a filmmaker about building a large-environment set for his 3D movie. Watch YouTube Video In …

How to create Transparency and Glass Video
Shaders & Textures

How to create Transparency and Glass

In this tutorial Cripeman will introduce you to ways of creating transparency in Carrara and will also give …

How to export Aniblocks from DAZ Studio into Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Plugins & Extensions

How to export Aniblocks from DAZ Studio into Carrara

Watch YouTube Video To export an AniBlock from DAZ Studio to Carrara, you’ll need to bake to studio keyframes …

How to fake Random events in 3D Animation Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

How to fake Random events in 3D Animation

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video This 3d animation tutorial shows how to make Advertising Hoardings …

How to fill polygons Video
Modeling

How to fill polygons

A tutorial how to fill holes in Carrara Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Holes without boolean operations …

How to get convincing razor stubble in Carrara – Video tutorial by Cripeman Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

How to get convincing razor stubble in Carrara – Video tutorial by Cripeman

How to make convincing 5 ‘o clock shadow. Subjects • Hair domains • Shaping tools • Hair Shader Watch YouTube …

How to install a Carrara plug-in under Mac OS X Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Plugins & Extensions

How to install a Carrara plug-in under Mac OS X

Watch YouTube Video Eric Winemiller of Digital Carver’s Guild shares a quick video showing how to install a …

How to Light up Windows in a 3D Night Scene Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Animation

How to Light up Windows in a 3D Night Scene

Watch YouTube Video The technique I’m showing here is to isolate the windows you wish to be on by cutting them …

How to Make a Blueprint Style Render Video
Lighting & Rendering

How to Make a Blueprint Style Render

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to set up NPR to render in blueprint style. Watch YouTube Video …

How to Make a Fake Planet Video
Shaders & Textures

How to Make a Fake Planet

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to make a fake planet in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related …

How to Make a Mushroom Cloud Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments

How to Make a Mushroom Cloud

ATOMIC! Cripeman explores volumetric clouds replicated over the surface of a simple base object. Multi-Pass …

How to Make a Steam Punk Arch Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

How to Make a Steam Punk Arch

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to make a Steam Punk arch using the spline modeling. Watch YouTube …

How To Make Domino Effect Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

How To Make Domino Effect

Watch YouTube Video This is a tutorial showing how to get the domino effect in Carrara… it’s really easy… …

How To Make Your Own Starfield Video
Lighting & Rendering

How To Make Your Own Starfield

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to make a star field using Carrara’s light bulbs and replicator. Watch …

How to model a cityscape Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

How to model a cityscape

In this set of tutorials Cripeman will show you how to create a cityscape in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video …

How to model a lamp stand using a Motion Path Video
Modeling Beginner Guides

How to model a lamp stand using a Motion Path

A segmented pipe is duplicated in the Assembly Room, aligned to a motion path, and then converted back to …

How to turn volumetric fire into a single flame Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

How to turn volumetric fire into a single flame

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to make your volumetric fire into a single flame. Watch …

How to use forces in Carrara – Cripeman video tutorial Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

How to use forces in Carrara – Cripeman video tutorial

Watch YouTube Video This one is on forces in Carrara. Enjoy learning about Forces and Particle Emitter! …

How to use Mimic Pro for Carrara effectively Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

How to use Mimic Pro for Carrara effectively

Watch YouTube Video How to use Mimic Pro for Carrara effectively, looks at this lip sync software and some of …

How to use shaders to distribute replicated objects Video
Terrain & Environments

How to use shaders to distribute replicated objects

In this tutorial Cripeman reveals how to use shaders to distribute replicated objects. Watch YouTube Video …

Lighting & Rendering Animation

Howler Motion Trails

FM9sDkZqhHU To me, Project Dogwaffle Pro: Howler is the perfect addition for applying post-work to my rendered …

Modeling Shaders & Textures Animation

iClone to Carrara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWg8-9spnI Exporting an avatar from iClone via FBX through 3DXchange, …

IES Lighting and easy editing for 3D apps Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

IES Lighting and easy editing for 3D apps

Watch YouTube Video How to use IES Lighting in your 3D app and how to edit IES lights. (Use them for …

IES Lighting Carrara 8 Video
Lighting & Rendering

IES Lighting Carrara 8

Here is something about IES lights in Carrara 8 Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Lighting Features …

Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids

Import Poser Dynamic Cloth into Carrara

The following tutorial was originally posted on the old Daz3D site, but has been broken for some time.The most …

Importing And Finding Smart Content In Carrara 8.5 Video
Beginner Guides

Importing And Finding Smart Content In Carrara 8.5

Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: What is Carrara – basic tutorial Carrara 8.5 – First Look Thoughts on …

Inclusion / Exclusion Lists for Lights Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Inclusion / Exclusion Lists for Lights

With this feature, you can determine which lights will affect which objects in your scenes, enabling you to …

Indirect Lighting in Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Indirect Lighting in Carrara

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Fake GI Sky light Carrara Skies Lightdomes 2 now in …

Interactive Renderer Video
Lighting & Rendering

Interactive Renderer

In this tutorial Cripeman explains about Interactive Renderer in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Introduction to Metaballs Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Introduction to Metaballs

In this tutorial Cripeman introduces you to Metaball Room in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Introduction to Puppeteer in Carrara Video
Beginner Guides

Introduction to Puppeteer in Carrara

Introducing Puppeteer for Carrara 8. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Démonstration de l’utilisation de …

Introduction To Realism In Carrara (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Introduction To Realism In Carrara (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Introduction To Realism In Carrara (free tutorials …

Jumping ball Animation part1 Video
Animation Beginner Guides

Jumping ball Animation part1

Here the first part of the Exercise 01 – The Jumping ball Animation Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video …

Knowing the Carrara interface Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Knowing the Carrara interface

Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime folder to Carrara Render Room introduction Save shader channels …

Landscape Wizard Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Landscape Wizard

Watch YouTube Video This feature makes it easy to create a greater number of original landscapes by allowing …

Large Texture Support Video
Shaders & Textures

Large Texture Support

Carrara provides the ability to increase the texture size that is displayed in the OpenGL or viewport display. …

Large Texture Support In OpenGL Video
Shaders & Textures

Large Texture Support In OpenGL

Carrara provides the ability to increase the texture size that is displayed in the OpenGL or viewport display. …

Lens flare Video
Lighting & Rendering

Lens flare

Watch YouTube Video Lens flares are distortion caused when light focuses in the camera lens. Carrara allow you …

Let It Snow Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Let It Snow

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to create snow using particles in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video …

Light cone Video
Lighting & Rendering

Light cone

Learn about cone lights to create volumetric light effects. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Carrara …

Light Gels Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Light Gels

In this tutorial Cripeman reviews the Gel Lights in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Fingers of God …

Lighting 2 Life – gel light presets tour Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Lighting 2 Life – gel light presets tour

Watch YouTube Video Dimension Theory demonstrates his Light 2 Life presets, which use Carrara’s light gels and …

Lighting Features Introduced in Carrara 8 Video
Lighting & Rendering

Lighting Features Introduced in Carrara 8

Lighting features introduced in Carrara 8, includes Barn Doors, Negative Lights, and IES photometric profiles. …

Load and save scenes Video
Shaders & Textures

Load and save scenes

A simple tutorial that will show the trick to create complex scenes Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime …

Load and save shaders Video
Shaders & Textures

Load and save shaders

How to load and save shaders in Carrara (Assembler and Texture Room) Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Save …

Loading a Preset Scene Video
General

Loading a Preset Scene

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Learn how to get started with Carrara 8 and …

Loading a Primitive Video
General

Loading a Primitive

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial. Learn how to …

Loading Objects in Carrara Video
General

Loading Objects in Carrara

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial that shows how to …

Long Drape Hair by PhilW Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Long Drape Hair by PhilW

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Phil Wilkes demonstrates draping Carrara’s Dynamic Hair, and the steps …

Low poly Hi Res Tutorial Series by SciFi Funk Video
Lighting & Rendering Plugins & Extensions Beginner Guides

Low poly Hi Res Tutorial Series by SciFi Funk

Low poly Hi Res Tutorial Series. For non speaking Closeup use (by Sci Fi Funk) Watch YouTube Video Part 1 – …

Low Poly People Video
Modeling Animation Plugins & Extensions

Low Poly People

ScifiFunk discusses “kit-bashing” to transfer one figure’s rigging, to a decimated (low poly) figure that has …

Low Poly People Mass Walk Loops Tutorial Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Plugins & Extensions

Low Poly People Mass Walk Loops Tutorial

ScifiFunk creates a dense city street scene with 132 low poly characters! Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube …

Modeling Shaders & Textures

Lowpoly Cube Houses – UV Mapping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQaFfnfU1Q Wendy demonstrates UV Mapping by applying parts of a photograph to …

LuxusCore for Carrara plugin – Unofficial manual 2016-01-23 Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Plugins & Extensions

LuxusCore for Carrara plugin – Unofficial manual 2016-01-23

An unofficial CarraraCafe manual for the upcoming LuxusCore plugin for Carrara, that brings GPU accelerated …

Magnet Deformer Tutorial Video
General

Magnet Deformer Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Magnet Deformer tutorial Related Posts: No Related Posts

Make a Hologram effect in Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures

Make a Hologram effect in Carrara

How to make a hologram effect in Carrara. Learn about Shaders, Planes and Aura effects. Watch YouTube Video …

Make a Mountain of Skulls Video
Terrain & Environments

Make a Mountain of Skulls

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to create a custom terrain and add skulls with the surface replicator. …

Make the Display Case Video
Modeling

Make the Display Case

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to make a display case. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Making a 3D object out of a 2D Image Video
Modeling

Making a 3D object out of a 2D Image

Watch YouTube Video A quick way to make a flat 2D cutout appear to be more 3D in the Vertex Modeler Related …

Making A Christmas Tree Using the Plant Modeler Video
Terrain & Environments

Making A Christmas Tree Using the Plant Modeler

Watch YouTube Video How to make a tree from scratch. Related Posts: Trees on Terrain Birds in Trees String …

Making a logo flying around the world Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Making a logo flying around the world

IN this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to make a logo fly around the world. Watch YouTube Video …

Making a Muzzle Flash Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Making a Muzzle Flash

Cripeman’s muzzle flash tutorial explores visual FX options using some of Carrara’s post-render effects: a …

Making a Romantic Moon Video
Shaders & Textures

Making a Romantic Moon

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to create a very nice and romantic moon in Carrara using high quality …

Making a simple flower Video
Modeling Animation Terrain & Environments

Making a simple flower

Watch YouTube Video Modeling and assembly of a simple flower, then replicating it. Related Posts: Modeling a …

Making and Animating Gears in Carrara Video
Modeling Animation Terrain & Environments

Making and Animating Gears in Carrara

How to make and animate gears in Carrara. Learn about Vertex Modeler, Dynamic Extrusion and Animation in …

Making And Using Efficient Distribution Shaders Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments

Making And Using Efficient Distribution Shaders

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Paint a distribution shader based on your camera’s view. It will cut …

Making Graffiti Video
Shaders & Textures

Making Graffiti

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to apply graffiti on a wall in Carrara, using the Texture …

Making Keyboard Shortcuts for the Spline Modeler Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Making Keyboard Shortcuts for the Spline Modeler

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to apply shortcuts for the Spline Modeler. Watch YouTube Video …

Making Morph Targets Video
Lighting & Rendering

Making Morph Targets

Watch YouTube Video Edit and create Morph Targets in a figure. Related Posts: Atmosphere Tutorial Making oil …

Making oil paintings using the NPR Video
Lighting & Rendering

Making oil paintings using the NPR

Watch YouTube Video Fake an oil painting using the Non-Photo Renderer by cripeman Related Posts: How to Make a …

Making Steam Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments

Making Steam

Watch YouTube Video make steam using lights in a particle emitter. Related Posts: Electrical Effect animated …

Making windows shader for a distant skyline Video
Shaders & Textures

Making windows shader for a distant skyline

Watch YouTube Video Using pattern shaders and the Multiply Operator to create building windows at night. …

MatchMove Assistant for PFhoe and Carrara Tutorial Video
General

MatchMove Assistant for PFhoe and Carrara Tutorial

MatchMove Assistant for Carrara Pro is a stand-alone mini-application designed to import camera data …

Mechanized Tutorial Video
Animation

Mechanized Tutorial

Dimension Theory explains keyframes, tweeners and Carrara’s Replicator. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Merry Xmas (3D Paint and Displacement) Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Merry Xmas (3D Paint and Displacement)

Carrara is not considered a sculpting tool, but in this holiday-themed walkthrough Cripeman shows how 3D Paint …

Modeling Animation Beginner Guides

Metaball Modeler

Start creating items from scratch without having to take the formal training courses. Modeling with metaballs …

Metaball Modelling Example Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering Animation

Metaball Modelling Example

Watch YouTube Video Scififunk opens the Metaball Modeler Related Posts: Low poly Hi Res Tutorial Series by …

Mimic for Carrara Tutorial from DAZ 3D Video
Plugins & Extensions

Mimic for Carrara Tutorial from DAZ 3D

Watch YouTube Video Mimic for Carrara Tutorial from DAZ 3D. Related Posts: How to use Mimic Pro for Carrara …

Modeling Animation Beginner Guides

model & rig a figure in Carrara, use it in iClone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplvW60QpnY 3dxchange5 allows retargetting of bones to use iClone iMotions. …

Model a bottle Video
Modeling

Model a bottle

Model a bottle and adding transparent label Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Making a 3D …

Model a facade Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Model a facade

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to create a facade using Carrara’s spline modeler. Watch …

Model a Figurine in 10 minutes Video
Modeling

Model a Figurine in 10 minutes

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to quickly model a figure in Carrara’s Vertex Modeler. Watch …

Model a propeler in Carrara 5 Video
Modeling

Model a propeler in Carrara 5

How to model a propeler in Carrara 5 in Vertex Modeler Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Holes without …

Modeling a Chain Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering Animation Beginner Guides

Modeling a Chain

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to create a chain using Carrara’s Spline modeler and apply physics to the …

Modeling a Human Head Video
Modeling

Modeling a Human Head

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Admittedly not an expert at modeling – you will …

Modeling a Mailbox Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures

Modeling a Mailbox

Watch YouTube Video Modeling a mailbox, minus the texture. Topics covered drawing in the spline modeler, …

Modeling a Rope Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Modeling a Rope

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to model a rope using spline modeling. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Modeling a spiral Sword Handle Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Modeling a spiral Sword Handle

A clever tutorial for making a spiral sword handle, starting with the Spiral tool in the Spline Modeler, then …

Modeling at an Angle – Rotate Numerically Video
Modeling Animation

Modeling at an Angle – Rotate Numerically

Watch YouTube Video Mike Moir demonstrates a workaround for rotating a model to a specific angle numerically …

Modeling Pipes Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Modeling Pipes

In this tutorial Cripeman will show you how to create pipes using Carrara’s Spline Modeler. Watch YouTube …

Modeling Ruled Surfaces in Carrara Video
Modeling

Modeling Ruled Surfaces in Carrara

Getting to grips with ruled surfaces. Learn about Ruled Surface, Double Sweep, Gordon Surfaces, Drawing Planes …

Modeling the basic parts of a MP3 player Video
Modeling Beginner Guides

Modeling the basic parts of a MP3 player

Modeling the basic parts of a MP3 player using carrara 6 pro. This video is also good for carrara 7 pro and …

Morph Targets Tutorial Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Morph Targets Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Morph targets allow the animator to define an area of an object, move it and then animate …

Moving around in 3D Space Video
General

Moving around in 3D Space

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial that shows how to …

Moving, Scaling and Rotating 3D Objects Video
General

Moving, Scaling and Rotating 3D Objects

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial covering Moving, …

Mulitple Undo/Redo Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Mulitple Undo/Redo

Watch YouTube Video Experiment to your heart’s content. With multiple levels of undo and redo, you don’t need …

Multi Threading Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Multi Threading

Watch YouTube Video Spread the load on your CPU intensive calculations. Related Posts: Universal Manipulator …

MultiPass Rendering in Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

MultiPass Rendering in Carrara

Watch YouTube Video CyborgProductions: “Video response to multi-pass rendering questions from a member on the …

Multiple Selection in Properties Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Multiple Selection in Properties

Watch YouTube Video Carrara allow you to select more them one instance at same time and adjust many parameters …

Natural Shaders tour Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Natural Shaders tour

Watch YouTube Video a tour of the Natural Shaders, including fire, ripple, and wave which can loop seamlessly. …

Navigating in 3D space Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Navigating in 3D space

Navigating in 3D space in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime folder to Carrara Render Room …

Neon Using Anything Glows Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Neon Using Anything Glows

Watch YouTube Video How to make neon using text and Anything Glows and the Spline Modeler. Related Posts: …

Nested groups and IK Chain Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Nested groups and IK Chain

Principles of IK setup with nested objects. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Universal Manipulator …

Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR)

Watch YouTube Video Carrara NPR allow you to use brushes to “draw” the rendered image as a painting. You can …

Normal Map in Carrara 8 Video
Shaders & Textures

Normal Map in Carrara 8

Normal Maps in Carrara 8 Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Glowing lips in Carrara Real eyes for Victoria 4 …

Ocean Primitive Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

Ocean Primitive

Watch YouTube Video Simulating the surface of the ocean, this new feature can be used to create both still and …

OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Preview Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Preview

Watch YouTube Video The OpenGL engine now has support for texture maps that use alpha channels, as well as an …

Organizing your Browser Video
Shaders & Textures

Organizing your Browser

Here is a way to organize all your stuff in Carrara Browser window. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime …

Parenting and Grouping Objects Video
General

Parenting and Grouping Objects

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial video covering …

Particle Creation Menu Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Particle Creation Menu

In this tutorial Cripeman explains the particle Creation Menu in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Particle Creation w/ Particle Shaders Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Particle Creation w/ Particle Shaders

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to add “controlled randomness” to your particles using particle shaders. …

Particle Fire Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids

Particle Fire

In this tutorial Cripeman will teach you how to create convincing fire using Carrara’s particles and shader …

Particle Shaders Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Particle Shaders

In this tutorial Cripeman introduces particle shaders. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Making Steam How to …

Particle Tutorial – Object Destruction Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Particle Tutorial – Object Destruction

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Particle Tutorials: Sculpting With Forces WHYZDOM – …

Particle Tutorials: Sculpting With Forces Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Particle Tutorials: Sculpting With Forces

Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Particle Tutorial – Object Destruction How to use forces in Carrara – …

Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Photoreal Sun – a Comicbook Tutorial

A brand new tutorial about creating a photoreal sun in Carrara is online at 3D.Wetcircuit.com in a wonderful …

Plant Modeler Improvements in Carrara 8 Video
Terrain & Environments

Plant Modeler Improvements in Carrara 8

Improvements to the Plant Modeler in Carrara 8 include multiple leaf objects and a new Plant Shape tool. Watch …

Playing with Carrara windows Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Playing with Carrara windows

Playing with Carrara windows and tool bars. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime folder to Carrara …

Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Polygonal Modeling

The subdivision surfaces tool in Carrara have been greatly optimized and is now up to seven times faster. You …

Poser Runtime into Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering

Poser Runtime into Carrara

Watch YouTube Video “How to import your Poser Runtime to Carrara.” by cripeman Related Posts: Exporting …

Precision Alignment in Carrara Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Precision Alignment in Carrara

In this tutorial Cripeman explains some of the useful alignment features in Carrara’s Assembly Room. Watch …

Precision Replication tutorial by Cripeman Video
Lighting & Rendering

Precision Replication tutorial by Cripeman

Replication made easy by Cripeman in Carrara: Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: How To Make Your Own …

Preferences Tour Video
Lighting & Rendering

Preferences Tour

In this tutorial Cripeman explains about Carrara’s preferences. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Thoughts on …

PySwarm Tutorial Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Plugins & Extensions

PySwarm Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Part 1 provides a quick overview of the PySwarm package – the PySwarm …

Quickly Create Distant Cityscape Video
Terrain & Environments

Quickly Create Distant Cityscape

Quickly Create Distant Cityscape using Carrara’s Replicator Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Stones in a …

Real eyes for Victoria 4 Video
Shaders & Textures

Real eyes for Victoria 4

Here a simple way to get reflections and highlights in the Victoria 4 character inside Carrara Watch YouTube …

Render Room introduction Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Render Room introduction

The basics about the Render Room in Carrara so you can start to render your images more easy. Watch YouTube …

Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Render time displacement on terrains

To add even more details on terrains, you can use the render time displacement feature that applies a shader …

Repair Missing Fonts on OS X Video
Plugins & Extensions

Repair Missing Fonts on OS X

Watch YouTube Video Due to a change in file structure on OS X the default user interface font is not visible …

Replicator Video
Modeling

Replicator

A very fast way to multiply objects in a scene without a lot of memory resources. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Runtime folder to Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Runtime folder to Carrara

A simple tutorial about how to add your Runtime folders to the Carrara Browser and the first steps to your …

Rust Video
Shaders & Textures

Rust

IN this tutorial Cripeman will teach you how to create beautiful rust shaders. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Save shader channels Video
Shaders & Textures

Save shader channels

Here is a way to load and save partial shaders, or individual shader channel in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video …

Sci fi Elements in the spline modeler Video
Modeling Terrain & Environments

Sci fi Elements in the spline modeler

Watch YouTube Video Creating sci fi decor in the spline modeler and replicating it as tiles. Related Posts: …

Screen Layout Video
General

Screen Layout

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 Tutorial, learn how to …

Shaders & Textures

Selection Tools

The paint, lasso, loop, rings, between, inverse, shrink and grow tools will allow you to quickly create a …

Sequential Particles Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Sequential Particles

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to create  Sequential Particles. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Shaders with multiple domains Video
Shaders & Textures

Shaders with multiple domains

Here how to load and save shaders with multiple domains like Poser content Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Shadow Video
Lighting & Rendering

Shadow

Watch YouTube Video “This one shows a couple of things about soft shadows” by cripeman Related Posts: …

Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Shadow Bias

This parameter was introduced in ray-traced shadows to improve the self-shadowing effects when working with …

Shadow Catcher Tutorial Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Shadow Catcher Tutorial

The is a tutorial for Carrara 6 on how to create nice scenes using live action film and shadow catchers from …

ShadowCatcher in Carrara Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

ShadowCatcher in Carrara

How to use the Shadowcatcher node to project shadows in the background. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Shapes as Emitters Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Shapes as Emitters

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to make your objects to be particle emitters. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Shaping Clouds with the Particle Emitter Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Shaping Clouds with the Particle Emitter

Watch YouTube Video “Making replicated clouds.” by cripeman Related Posts: Atmosphere Tutorial Making oil …

Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Simple Carrara Lighting

Tips for portrait lighting, eye highlights, render settings. (low volume) …

Simple ripples Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures

Simple ripples

Tutorial about creating simple ripples in Carrara Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Wolf Tracks – Step by …

Sky light Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Sky light

Learn about using images, HDRI, formulas, colors and gradients to light your scenes. Watch YouTube Video …

Sky Light and render settings Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Sky Light and render settings

A simple video that show how to use Sky Light (GI) in Carrara when working with Poser content Watch YouTube …

General

Small / Medium / Large scenes

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Soft Selection Video
Modeling

Soft Selection

Watch YouTube Video Manipulate all the points in a given radius of the current selection. The soft selection …

Some Rules For Realistic Materials (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Some Rules For Realistic Materials (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Some Rules For Realistic Materials (free …

Sparrowhawke3D Cloth Tutorials Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Plugins & Extensions Beginner Guides

Sparrowhawke3D Cloth Tutorials

Watch YouTube Video This tutorial covers the basic function of the Sparrowhawke3D Cloth Deformer plugin for …

Speeding Up Physics Simulations with Proxies Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Speeding Up Physics Simulations with Proxies

Watch YouTube Video Speed Up Physics Simulations with a Proxy object Related Posts: Working with Physics in …

Modeling Terrain & Environments

Spline Modeler

The power of splines is at your fingertips using Carrara’s robust spline modeler. Start with simple spline …

Spline Modeler Animation Trick Video
Modeling Animation Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

Spline Modeler Animation Trick

In this tutorial Cripeman shows the basic of animating in the Spline Modeler, then distributing the model with …

Spotlights Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Spotlights

Basic about spotlights Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Volumetric light Tube lights Bulb light Distant and …

SSS vs Glow Channel for Skin Video
Lighting & Rendering

SSS vs Glow Channel for Skin

In this tutorial Cripeman reviews SSS and Glow Channel usage for skin shaders. Watch YouTube Video Related …

Modeling Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Start-up Scene Wizard

This feature makes it easy to start the design of your scene by choosing from a series of presets, the …

Stones in a Stream Bed Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

Stones in a Stream Bed

How to use the terrain shader in Carrara to control distribution on a terrain object. Watch YouTube Video …

String Lights On a Christmas Tree Video
Modeling Animation Terrain & Environments

String Lights On a Christmas Tree

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman adds a strand of lights to his Christmas Tree using the Spiral Tool and a Surface …

Subsurface Scattering Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Subsurface Scattering

Watch YouTube Video This is light that scatters inside an object and filters through in a diffuse manner. This …

Sun position in Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Sun position in Carrara

Here some tips about how to use the Sun in Carrara’s Realistic Sky Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: “God …

Surface Replicator Video
Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments

Surface Replicator

Watch YouTube Video Quickly and easily distribute objects along a surface. This valuable feature also works …

Svenska Carrara Tutorial Video
General

Svenska Carrara Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video Hasse Olsson Svenska Carrara Tutorial Related Posts: No Related Posts

Symmetrical Modeling Video
Modeling

Symmetrical Modeling

Watch YouTube Video Streamline the modeling process! Ideal for editing characters, this new symmetrical …

Terrain Shading Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Terrain Shading

In this tutorial Cripeman explains Carrara’s terrain shading. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Trees on …

Textured Fireball Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures Particles, Hair & Fluids

Textured Fireball

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman creates a fireball prop in the vertex modeler, then adds FX with Carrara’s fire …

Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

The 3DUniverse Toon Generation Figure in Carrara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqSkG7oJ95g “There is a mini tutorial in here … but I want to really give props …

The Basics of Carrara Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

The Basics of Carrara

Tour of Carrara interface Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Basic Lighting in Carrara …

The Ocean Primitive Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

The Ocean Primitive

In this tutorial Cripeman reviews the basics of ocean primitive in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …

Thoughts on Carrara 8.5 and Genesis Video
Lighting & Rendering

Thoughts on Carrara 8.5 and Genesis

Watch YouTube Video Cripeman takes a tour of the new features in Carrara 8.5, and DAZ 3D’s Genesis figure. …

Three Point Lighting Tutorial for 3d Animators Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation Beginner Guides

Three Point Lighting Tutorial for 3d Animators

Watch YouTube Video Three point lighting can transform your remders! Suddenly flat dull pictures take on a 3d …

Toon Shading Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Toon Shading

Cripeman explains a few tricks on Cartoon Shading in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: The …

Toroid Coil – Vertex Modeler Tutorial Video
Modeling

Toroid Coil – Vertex Modeler Tutorial

Toroidal Wire model made in the Vertex Modeler in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Vertex Model …

Translucency Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Translucency

Watch YouTube Video Translucency is a material channel that allows a surface to let the light to pass through …

Transparency Shader tour Video
Shaders & Textures

Transparency Shader tour

Watch YouTube Video Just a few tips on transparency. Kind of deviates into a glass tutorial. Related Posts: …

Tree Rustling Video
Lighting & Rendering Terrain & Environments

Tree Rustling

In this tutorial by Cripeman you will learn how to make Carrara’s plants rustle in the wind. Watch YouTube …

Tree Shape editor in Carrara 8 Video
Terrain & Environments

Tree Shape editor in Carrara 8

Tutorial about a very useful tree shape set up feature in the Tree generator of Carrara 8 Watch YouTube Video …

Trees on Terrain Video
Shaders & Textures Terrain & Environments

Trees on Terrain

Watch YouTube Video Trees on a terrain with the surface replicator. • Scene Sizes • Object scale • Plants • …

Tube lights Video
Lighting & Rendering Beginner Guides

Tube lights

Basic and tricks to use Tube lights in Carrara (before the shape light icons in Carrara 8.5) Watch YouTube …

Tunnels part11 – Carrara to PDHowler Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

Tunnels part11 – Carrara to PDHowler

Watch YouTube Video Render a Carrara animation to PNG image sequence with alpha channel. Related Posts: Howler …

Shaders & Textures Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Terrain & Environments Beginner Guides

Tutorial: Ocean with Easily Animated Foam

Originally posted by evilproducer at theDAZ3D forum here. Comments and questions should be posted there. Here …

Universal Manipulator Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Universal Manipulator

Universal Manipulator is a very cool feature that allow you to modify your object/content without have to …

Universal manipulator in Assembly Room Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Universal manipulator in Assembly Room

Watch YouTube Video With the Universal Manipulator accessible from within the Assembly room, you can move, …

Untitled Tutorial Video
General

Untitled Tutorial

What is Carrara – Intro by Dartanbeck by rk | Aug 12, 2014 | Tutorials Watch YouTube Video Dartanbeck: “In …

Using Auras to Add Color to Your Scenes Video
Shaders & Textures Lighting & Rendering

Using Auras to Add Color to Your Scenes

Watch YouTube Video “This one shows how to add color to your scenes using the auras from your moon and sun. It …

UV Mapping in Carrara 8.5 Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures

UV Mapping in Carrara 8.5

Watch YouTube Video Keith Unitt-Jones “A quick look at UV mapping in Carrara.” Related Posts: Lowpoly Cube …

Vertex Model from Photos Video
Modeling Shaders & Textures

Vertex Model from Photos

Watch YouTube Video Wendy recreates her car from 2 reference photos in the Vertex Modeler. Textures it with …

Vertex Modeling in Assembly room Video
Modeling

Vertex Modeling in Assembly room

Watch YouTube Video Helping to improve Carrara’s workflow, the Vertex Modeling capabilities that were …

Vine Tutorial Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Vine Tutorial

Watch YouTube Video “This is how to get some decent looking vines in your scene.” by cripeman Related Posts: …

Volumetric Clouds Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Volumetric Clouds

Watch YouTube Video In addition to the physical simulation of skies in Carrara, you can add volumetric clouds …

Volumetric light Video
Lighting & Rendering

Volumetric light

Tutorial introducing you to volumetric lights in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Tube lights …

Volumetrics and FX Video
Lighting & Rendering Particles, Hair & Fluids

Volumetrics and FX

In this tutorial Cripeman looks at the old school volumetrics FX in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related …

What is Carrara – basic tutorial Video
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What is Carrara – basic tutorial

Watch YouTube Video What is Carrara? This is a basic tutorial, in my 3D tutorials part of my 3D model website …

What is Carrara – Intro by Dartanbeck Video
General

What is Carrara – Intro by Dartanbeck

Watch YouTube Video Dartanbeck: “In this video, I try to keep things brief, while also trying to help point …

What Is Wrong With Carrara’s Default Settings (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

What Is Wrong With Carrara’s Default Settings (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | What Is Wrong With Carrara’s Default Settings …

When Clothes Go Bad (How to fix for 3D animation) Video
Lighting & Rendering Animation

When Clothes Go Bad (How to fix for 3D animation)

Watch YouTube Video A fix for Carrara Poser figures if their clothes do not follow the figure they are …

Why Are Carrara’s Lights Unrealistic (Infinite Skills) Video
Lighting & Rendering

Why Are Carrara’s Lights Unrealistic (Infinite Skills)

Watch YouTube Video **Carrara – Realism Rendering Tutorial | Why Are Carrara’s Lights Unrealistic (free …

Windows Views and Layouts Video
Beginner Guides

Windows Views and Layouts

Watch YouTube Video From http://www.infiniteskills.com/trainin… Beginners Carrara 8 tutorial that shows the …

Shaders & Textures

Wolf Tracks – Step by Step Displacement Tutorial by Giuseppe Cannata’

by Giuseppe Cannata’ aka Pimpy *click to enlarge (2.7MB) * Related Posts: Creating Polygonal Grass Segments …

Working with Instance Randomizer Plugin Video
Shaders & Textures Animation Plugins & Extensions

Working with Instance Randomizer Plugin

Watch YouTube Video Phil Wilkes: “A demo of Sparrowhawke3D’s wonderful new plugin for Carrara called Instance …

Working with Physics in Carrara 8.5 Pro Video
Animation Particles, Hair & Fluids Beginner Guides

Working with Physics in Carrara 8.5 Pro

Part 1: Physics Tutorial Emw Grimhilda: “This is a tutorial for beginners wishing to try using soft body …

Working with Poser content Video
General

Working with Poser content

How to work with Poser content in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Conforming …

Working with text and numbers Video
Modeling Lighting & Rendering

Working with text and numbers

In this tutorial you will learn about text primitive in Carrara. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Universal …

Working with the Browser Video
Shaders & Textures

Working with the Browser

Working with the Browser Watch YouTube Video Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: Runtime folder to Carrara Save …

Modeling Shaders & Textures

Wrecked Cars Tutorial, Applying Rust Shaders to Awkward Models

Sci Fi Funk has released a 4 part tutorial showing us how to apply rust shaders to a bunch of imported cars. …

Writing With the Particle Emitter Video
Particles, Hair & Fluids

Writing With the Particle Emitter

In this tutorial Cripeman shows how to write using the particle emitter. Watch YouTube Video Related Posts: …