I was browsing through Eovia's website gallery and particularly the gallery work labeled as "Done with Carrara." (I just downloaded my new upgrade to Pro 4 today)

Specifically, the work done by Marcel Laverdet caught my eye. "Amazing," says me... so I do a google for the dude and find much of his stuff at UV mapper site. There they list his work as being done with Z-Brush. Now that makes sense... I have seen very organic work done with Z-Brush, of the sort that Mr. Laverdet does.

Now to the bottom line... what exactly of the samples that Carrara claims are done with their software is actually done with it? I think that perhaps (in the case of Mr. Laverdet) the rendering was the only thing done (or maybe some background stuff) with Carrara.

Now this strikes me as strange and smacks of deceptivity.... I've done conventional illustration for years (see it if you like at my web site) and to me what Carrara is doing would be like me taking some other artist's drawing and slapping some color on it and putting my name on the art and telling folks that it is my work.

Does anybody else think that Eovia/Carrara should be a little more up front with their claims? I've used the "Carrara" product for years, starting with Ray Dream before it went through the hoops to all the different owners/developers.

Honestly (that's the issue, isn't it?) this makes me uncomfortable... I think we all like to deal with straight shooters.

Whaddya think?

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