Hi I am here! The problem is the Carrara users in some way, they dont post nothing about theyr work in forums or other medias, its a very strange thing. I saw an article in ImageFX magazine (may 2013) with images from artist John Charles (England) that use Carrara for his work but didnt saw any comment about him in DAZ3D community.

Others artists that use Carrara profissionaly also still using it, but with a lot of work dont have time to take care of free sites like CarraraCafe. I started the projedt with DAZ3D and still do the backup and other adjust in it, but really after sometime I cant take care of it alone and without money, so I called a lot of friends and I think they are faccing the same problem with time and money. Take care of a site like that take a lot of time to get information, write and edit texts, create videos and things like that, so time is money and theres no money there but we still need to feed ours families.

I think also that Facebook let people lazy, they only want to enter in a place, post an image and gone. Its a real problem when people dont want to have a little more work to talk to people in forums.

I think the same happen to video tutorials, I did a lot fo them for free, working for DAZ3D and after they dispense all colaborators about 2 years ago, I think a lot of "helpers" give up from doing things for free.

Well the good thing is that DAZ3D is still working in Carrara anyway, but I think that is a very slow development now.

Carrara need some very serious addons to back to professional hands again. For example, I am working in a short movie and I have to create a lot of VFX shots for breaking walls, particles for smoke (like wizards in Harry Potter) and I have to get back to my old Lightwave 9.6 (yes I couldnt upgrade yet) to get the work better.

But in other hands Carrara is the main application to create the storyboard, where I could simple create a basic scenario from te movie and set the actor position using Vic and Mic very easy to plane the shots.

But I really hope to see more development for Carrara and really dont know what DAZ3D plans to version 9 (I think they still dont know also).

I think also that the major problem at DAZ3D this last two years was the creation of Genesis, that is a very good idea but I am getting lost with this new installer and smart content yet with Carrara. So they need to fix a lot of things and Genesis 2 born to do that and when thngs are fixed and stable they will put more money in Carrara development.

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