Attached Link: If you never tried Anything Grows: Digital Carvers Guild

Hi All. A client wanted a piece of soccer field as the backing visual in this ad. Stock photos are hard to find for this and I suddenly realized I knew how to do it. Blew the dust off of AGrows, made a small noise texture, scratched my head about the 'taper' (less = more, I found out), made a test render. And before I knew I rendered a large print-resolution image which I post-blurred.

Just to show that, given the opportunity, it is easy to earn the software and plug-ins back!
I did tell my clients that this was a digital illustration.They thought it was a very expensive photo.

I decided to post this, to show that it not just fun and play Carrara is good for. I myself always like to see practical solutions done with tools I use myself.
(thanks to Eric Winemiller for creating them great plugins)

Carrara is great for doing stills/ posters/ etc. : ) Here's another example. A client just asked me to do a Christmas themed image for a promo. Downloaded a couple of images from a photo art site for reference and this what I came up. The client liked it a lot. Took like less than an hour to set it up. And I can do variations of angles and colors... (try THAT with stock images..) : )

Great work guys, Velarde, could you give us some info on your lighting/render setup?

Sure, nothing really fancy , it just looks like it ; ) I think its more or less the lighting setup you were using for your Alamo project... GI (using one of the DVGarage's Reflection toolkit for environment) http://www.padd.com/market/product/product.php?prod=rtk + a Distant light (for the shadows) with soft shadows enabled thats it. Rendered 2 different options (one lighter and one darker) and composited them in Photoshop (50% each), just 'cause I'm a control freak : ) Any one of the two would have been fine. P.D. How's the Alamo image coming along? good luck

I also use Carrara commercially. I did this cover for a Xmas CD for a church.

Just to dang cool! -Kix