Shade3D is a truly amazing, and very easy to use. As a Maya user in these forums said: 'Shade3D can kick some serious ass'. Unfortunately I cannot find his post.

Here is an interview with Adam Kuczek, an accomplished Shade3D user along with some of his works. See Link.

headwax. posted at 11:14AM Tue, 12 June 2018 - #4331494

wendyvainity posted at 5:49PM Sun, 10 June 2018 - #4331294

dr_bernie posted at 4:56PM Thu, 07 June 2018 - #4331032

The lack of massive participation in this thread is proof by a+b that in Carrara Michael 4 can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

most the others have you on ignore I think

That's funny Wendy. I wouldn't do that! I enjoy bernie's digs at carrara. Always puzzles me what motivates him/her though. He she appears to want users to move away from carrara and use other software by proving that other software is better.

I think that's admirable, trying to help us like that. I can't wait to stop using carrara now I know it's no good.

:)

Thanks Headwax for your show of support. You hit the nail exactly on the head. I am only trying to show the Carrara community that there are excellent alternatives to Carrara that should be considered.

Your comments motivate me to do tutorials on Shade3D (See Link). For other alternatives such as Lightwave, IClone, or even Bryce, there are countless excellent tutorials on the net already.

BTW, I'm a he.

Bryce is truly a unique 3D app. It is not just for landscapes and sceneries but, as you can see in Renderosity's Bryce gallery, very fit for artistic and abstract work as well.

Bryce is also very alive, judging by the activities in the Bryce gallery, which are almost 4 times more than in the Carrara gallery.

I don't believe there will be any further developments on either Bryce or Carrara. But if Daz3D decided to spend some serious development money on just ONE of the two, my recommendation would be to spend it on Bryce and trash Carrara for good, because Carrara is hopelessly outdated while Bryce isn't.

At this point, and imho, a Bryce 8 would make a lot more sense than a Carrara 9. I will go into this, point by point, in further posts.

The lack of massive participation in this thread is proof by a+b that in Carrara Michael 4 can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

In our continuing series of Carrara animation challenges, this is an animation I did with IClone 7.2.1. It's actually a render of an scene included in the IClone package to whic I added a music. See This Link.

In the video you have dynamic hair, dynamic hair, and no foot slippage. The render time was about 10 minutes for 600 frames, or roughly a second per frame on a fairly well-endowed computer.

It took me about maybe 2 hours to do this, but I am only an IClone beginner.

wendyvainity posted at 6:03AM Sun, 27 May 2018 - #4330636

she is not chewing gum but a quite nice render, certainly just as doable in Carrara though

She is a Carrara render, done quite a long time ago.

wendyvainity posted at 8:57PM Sat, 26 May 2018 - #4330590

I am still waiting for your iClone animation mate Warning movie contains mild nudity.

Alright miss, here ia an animation for a movie. How's that? See This Link. (Warning: Movie contains nudity).

@ Mark Bremmer:

Thanks Mark for your comments and feedbacks. Very valuable, as always.

I agree with you, Unity and Unreal are both top-notch game engines, quite on par with each other. The only reason I went with Unreal is that Unreal gives you their entire package at no charge, while Unity leaves some functionalities out of their free version. Other than that everything we say in this thread about Unreal should apply word for word to Unity as well.

DUDU.car posted at 1:10PM Tue, 22 May 2018 - #4330410

I don't understand why the moderators let this I-clown pollute the CARRARA forum…

Clown yourself.

IClone and its native support for Substance is only $199.- away.

IClone has built-in native support for substance materials, and it had this support ever since IClone 6, which is about 4 years old. See This Link

Sorry to tell you, but Carrara has fallen so far behind in every respect, that it can't even be used as a teaching tool for kindergarten.

IIRC back in Christmas Carrara 8.5 Pro was saled at $16.- My best offer is $10 bucks.

@ wendyvainity: Your lighting is actually quite good, and the skin render isn't all that bad either. But the animation needs a lot more work.

@ diomede: I don't know how good Dinner For Two is, because you show only a brief trailer. But regardless of how good it is, I don't believe it's a match to this: See Link.

diomede posted at 12:42PM Sat, 19 May 2018 - #4330279

Just mimicing threads looking for some bad girls - sarcasm rejoined.

Yeah!

Carrara's renderer is very good at producing outputs with a 1950's look (sarcasm intentional).