A Comment On The Gallery.

[bwtr]

Looking at those wonderful works makes one wonder about giving up--or taking them as a challenge. Anyone who says Carrara is not good must have holes in thier head!

[Marathon]

Hehe, yes.

I get, "What?!? You use Carrara?!? Why do you use that?" all the time. People seem to have this preconceived idea that if you're not using Max or Maya, there's no way you can be creating anything good.

Now, perhaps if I was heavily into animation, I would consider using those premier packages. Assuming I felt like coughing up 10k for the software and a pile of plugins...

But I don't. I do stills.

I'm also a single person; there's little chance I would be able to create an animation with any package that I'd consider worthwhile of the effort within my lifetime. Ever see the list of credits at the end of even a 5 minute short movie? And imagine the size of the renderfarm you'd need to render those thousands of frames, too...

[woodboat]

I agree. I too will only do stills for now at least. I am learning that Carrara has plenty power to do what I need and then some. I plan to replace one of those premier packages with C5 just as soon as I learn the ropes and when my efforts are at lest as reliable as the software is. If I had any suggestion for Eovia so far, it would be to get a little more serious about a user guide. I know a few 3D artists (architectural viz business) in 2 major metropolitan areas who would just love to ditch the expense of high end packages and who have looked at Carrara, but decided that the learning curve is too steep without a better source of material. They are people like me with a full time job and a family - not people with a lot of time to stumble when their income depends on the software. The same can be said of nearly every Autocad user I know - independent people who would dearly love to ditch Autocad but cannot. That seems to be the major difference between premier packages and the best of the mid priced ones - the availability of reliable support and tutorials and information from the publisher (Eovia in this case). Nowdays I see that Carrara is plenty capable and thats why I come to this website - to learn and hopefully to offer later when I actually know something helpful about the software.

Thanks Eovia - this is a great start. I'm counting on Carrara to do well, to make great inroads and to recognise that there are quite a lot of potential user out here. Soon as I get a handle on C5, I'm going to get Hexagon going.

Thanks too to the excellent plug-in developers Digital Carvers Guild and Shoestring and the people who have made some great tutorials which I am trying out now too.

regards, wb

[Thomas]

http://www.eovia.com/resources/carra..._tutorials.asp
As I said on a previous post, Eovia is working on tutorials, as you can see on the updateted tutorial section of Eovia

[crazy wabbit]

Do not forget lynda.com
for $25.00 you can signup for a whole month of training on any software including C5.

[medeamajic]

I imagine Eovia is at the National Assosiation of Broadcaster Convention to get the Carrara name out their. I think it would be great for Eovia to give Pixar a copy of Carrara and the 25 node gird for free. See what Pixar can make out of it. They may use it for 5 minute shorts at Disney World. With 1000 node Grid they may use it for a full movie.

I imagine by the time Carrara gets to version 7.0 it may rival Maya and Lightwave and be used in a studio like Pixar. Carrara is not as old as Lightwave and C4D. I admit it started as RDS so it did have a head start.

[woodboat]

Yes really, release 7 should be just awesome. I'm looking forward to just learning 5 for now - awesome as it already is.

@behzad: I've never heard of lynda.com. I'm going there now to check it out. Thank you very much.

@Thomas: thanks too - please know that I'm not complaining at all. I'm really happy with the direction it is all taking. The quicker, the better.

wb