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Carrara F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 05 6:06 am)
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I don't think you'll need to use Poser on this one since you can do all of the animation in Carrara. Iactually do a ton of that kind of work myself but I haven't come across any specific tutorials (or made any) that specifically covers all of the recommendations. Integrating Carrara with still photographs is no problem and quite fun actually. I posted an example here awhile back. It's really just a matter of using a photo for a background, setting up your scene, eliminating the background from Carrara, rendering and then compositing within Photoshop.
Animating within live footage of a client environment is very possible but it might be a little out of your hardware and software capabilities unless the company wants to trick-out your workstation. It would be easier to create an environment and animate within it instead.
If you need to animate within live footage, just post back and i'll rough out what you need.
In the DAZ carrara forum, a user has posted a thread titled "intermediate tips, tricks and tuts" with all the tutorials she could find. This list includes some of what you will need for your project.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~njfinlay/tutorials has a tutorial on "rendering a poser figure against a backdrop" which walks you through setting up a scene and getting the lights and angles right (very easy by the way) to match the backdrop. The tutorial is for a still, but you could take it to an animation very quickly.
my vote would be to get as many bvh files as possible, and use 'em in carrara.
yer boss is gonna hafta specify what the figures look like, what they're wearing.
the default poser figures may suffice in that regard IMVHO, e.g. dork and posette.
totally 90s, but the focus may be the equipment and not the figures. at least
the poser figures come with some clothing and joints useable in carrara, which
is a big time saver.
Thanks for the responses. This is going to be a long-term process. I know Strata has a plug-in that allows you to bring Strata models into the perspective filter/window in Photoshop. I get the impression that 3D bridge from Daz might do the same thing?
Mark, I'm not planning to animate the figures within live-action footage. Animation would be 100% modeled. (But I just got a pretty tricked out Mac Pro last week...)
Also, one of the biggest hurdles I've faced is lighting. The environments I'm creating are grocery stores. I cannot find any sort of tutes that deal with lighting such environments. All I find are three-point lighting tutes - which is great for vases and portraits, not so great for large rooms. :P
Miss Nancy, all those specs are up to me, :) While it would be nice to have figures better than the defaults, they aren't my main concern. That will come with time.
Thanks again! :)
I hope this isn't a dumb question but is it possible to do figure animation with rotoscoping in Carrara? I'm thinking if yes than graylensman can make a video of someone interacting with his product and somehow in Carrara sync the live-action video reference to a 3d figure. does this make any sense? info on rotoscoping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope
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Just to clarify, at this point, I don't need to marry 3D animation with live action video. I'm compositing still photos with Carrara renders, and will use animation strictly in the modeled environment.Here's a recent example of a project. A thousand words and all that.
For lighting you might consider seeing if you can find an HDRI (HDR) for lighting of a store or see if they will support you getting the equipment to make one for yourself.
I know you don't need to do live video and 3d objects but if you ever do try the free voodoo or commercial syntheyes.
Here is a discussion on HDRI in carrara http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=66675
and this is one using HDRI as a plugin for DS but this is to a specific post to see the lighting done with an with and without HDR http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1207038#1207038
That being said I haven't learned yet to do the HDR stuff myself yet.
Here are some store Interiors - Its a commercial link http://www.doschdesign.com/products/hdri/Shop_Interiors.html
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Okay, here's the story. I'm an art director (designer/web developer/Flash programmer/etc.) at a manufacturer. I've been tasked with a long term project: to be able to model our product (refrigerated display cases) and (1) composite the render with actual photos of customer environments and (2) animate figures to illustrate human interaction with the products.
I've been a long-time Carrara user, and have dabbled with Poser. But I need to make major strides in my skills.
Could anyone recommend any books and resources? Obviously Poser modeling but also Carrara lighting, animation, and compositing with Photoshop.
Thanks in advance!