I use Carrara as well and am hoping someone with coding expertise and the interest will emerge to make sure it isn't rendered obsolete by operating system updates or any other technology it depends on. Several people are still developing great plugins and there certainly seems to be an enthusiastic base. Here's a music video I made for Baba Brinkman, who's had a range of off Broadway shows that generally relate to science or critical thinking. This one, Senescence, has to do with the inevitable decline of our body and how that relates to evolutionary forces: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2928990

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