An In-Depth Review Of Carrara 5 Pro - Polyloop

Paul Rego · 5th April 2006, 12:58

I just finished a review of Carrara 5 Pro for our local Macintosh user's group M.A.C.S. -- Macintosh Asheville Computer Society. It doesn't cover ALL the features this great program offers. Instead, I wanted to first introduce anyone who has never used a 3D program to this fascinating world. (This part will be boring to those of you on this forum.)

Following that section, I go into detail about how I created various objects and scenes in Carrara 5 Pro. I provide a few example images and QuickTime movies on some of the more interesting aspects and on some new features. Here are some of my examples:
* A Physics movie.
* A movie of a birdbath spewing birdbaths (copies of itself).
* A very quick movie of a purple robot head which shows "Anisotropic Lighting".
* A still image of the new Volumetric Cloud object. I couldn't resist this. These new clouds are so realistic. (click it for a larger image).
* A still image using the new Surface Replicator -- 10,247 objects in all (click it for a larger image).
* A still image which features 2 of the new Surface Tools: Ruled, Double-Sweep, Coons and Gordon. In this scene, I only used Double-Sweep and Gordon. (click it for a larger image).
* A movie of "Ratchet - The Magic Dog". (My first attempt at using animation to tell a short story. Until now, all of my work (I guess I should say my "hobby") has been with "still" images.

When I finished writing my review, I visited the Eovia web site and what do you know, they released version 5.1. I wasn't going to comment on this new update but the new "wind in the trees" feature was so impressive, I just had to render a short movie and add it to my review... so that's on my review page as well.

Here is the link to my review:

http://homepage.mac.com/macsnc/theworldof3d.html

Note: The images I currently have posted on this site (eovia3d.net) were all made when I reviewed Carrara "4" Pro. Take a look at those pictures and think about Carrara "5" Pro making them better-looking and easier to create. Here are the titles of those images:
* Web Page Menu
* RoBOcean - Big Sale
* RoBOcean - Grand Opening
* Indoor Sample
* Outdoor Sample
* Awakenings
* Awakening
* Magic Snow - toon
* Magic Snow - photo

psaldari · 5th April 2006, 13:51

Big review, thank's

Paolo

5th April 2006, 12:58	#1 (permalink)
Paul Rego Vertex Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: USA Posts: 6	An In-Depth Review Of Carrara 5 Pro I just finished a review of Carrara 5 Pro for our local Macintosh user's group M.A.C.S. -- Macintosh Asheville Computer Society. It doesn't cover ALL the features this great program offers. Instead, I wanted to first introduce anyone who has never used a 3D program to this fascinating world. (This part will be boring to those of you on this forum.) Following that section, I go into detail about how I created various objects and scenes in Carrara 5 Pro. I provide a few example images and QuickTime movies on some of the more interesting aspects and on some new features. Here are some of my examples: * A Physics movie. * A movie of a birdbath spewing birdbaths (copies of itself). * A very quick movie of a purple robot head which shows "Anisotropic Lighting". * A still image of the new Volumetric Cloud object. I couldn't resist this. These new clouds are so realistic. (click it for a larger image). * A still image using the new Surface Replicator -- 10,247 objects in all (click it for a larger image). * A still image which features 2 of the new Surface Tools: Ruled, Double-Sweep, Coons and Gordon. In this scene, I only used Double-Sweep and Gordon. (click it for a larger image). * A movie of "Ratchet - The Magic Dog". (My first attempt at using animation to tell a short story. Until now, all of my work (I guess I should say my "hobby") has been with "still" images. When I finished writing my review, I visited the Eovia web site and what do you know, they released version 5.1. I wasn't going to comment on this new update but the new "wind in the trees" feature was so impressive, I just had to render a short movie and add it to my review... so that's on my review page as well. Here is the link to my review: http://homepage.mac.com/macsnc/theworldof3d.html Note: The images I currently have posted on this site (eovia3d.net) were all made when I reviewed Carrara "4" Pro. Take a look at those pictures and think about Carrara "5" Pro making them better-looking and easier to create. Here are the titles of those images: * Web Page Menu * RoBOcean - Big Sale * RoBOcean - Grand Opening * Indoor Sample * Outdoor Sample * Awakenings * Awakening * Magic Snow - toon * Magic Snow - photo

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5th April 2006, 13:51	#2 (permalink)
psaldari NURBS Booleans are your friend Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Treviso - Italy Posts: 115	Big review, thank's Paolo