Hi Carrara Users! Just wanted to alert you to the fact that the site geekatplay.com now has a section dedicated to FREE Carrara tutorials which I'll be writing, to complement their extensive sets of tutorials for other 3d application such as vue, hexagon, photoshop...

The carrara section is at
http://www.geekatplay.com/pnina.php

Let me introduce myself, as I'm new to this forum.

My name is Pnina Osguthorpe (also known as ArtPearl).

My professional career involved scientific research in the field of computational Chemistry. This included some computer graphics, to visualize the structure of complex molecules and simulations of their dynamic behavior

My artistic activities have centered on watercolor painting. I started using CG applications such as Poser , Vue and Hexagon mainly to set up virtual models and scenes which are then painted in watercolor. However, with time I started creating CG images as a 'creation' on their own accord.
(Please have a look at my gallery here at renderosity)

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I am relatively new to Carrara and still learning the ropes. I am planning to make a serious of tutorials while I am still in the process of learning. Instead of the more common approach of 'Follow me, I know this road well. Trust me I'm an expert' I want to try the approach 'Walk with me, we will discover together what lies ahead' I'm hoping that the experience I gained from traditional art and from the other CG applications I learnt so far will help me navigate this journey without too many mishaps and make this a mutually beneficial experience.

As a first phase, to ease us into the Carrara experience, I want to go through the work flow with a simple project – we are going on a picnic! This will involve modeling some objects we need (starting with a picnic table) and texturing (shading) them. We will create the setting by modeling the terrain add some vegetation and a 'water feature', add some living creature(s) set the atmosphere and render our scene. Maybe even a short animation at the end of the picnic...

Hopefully we will return to some of these tasks later on and learn some more advanced or sophisticated ways to carry them out.

At the moment the tutorials are in a pdf/print format, but I may have video tutorials too in the future.

Feedback of any sort - comments, questions, suggestions will be very welcome!

Thanks for the tutorials ArtPearl! Carrara really need this.

Looking forward to seeing your tutorials - your website is so informative and I always learn something when I visit :)  Thanks again!

Thank you for doing this! Excellent idea. And it's great to see Carrara get more exposure on a prominent site.

Also, please consider video tutorials. For workflow and modeling they are usually more helpful. There are people who prefer pdf's, though (I'm not one of them, but trying to be fair :)..), so whichever you end up doing will benefit people.

Sweeet!

Thanks for your work

Thanks for the welcoming words!
As for video vs pdf tutorials - I think there is place for both types. I am looking into doing some video tuts as well, but it will take me a bit to sort out an appropriate application being that I am using a mac, and havnt upgraded my OS recently. I would like a new computer...

 Thanks for sharing!