Now you can enjoy figure posing,
modeling, landscape design, rigid and soft-body dynamics, animation
and rendering all within a single application at an affordable
price. Add a whole new dimension to your 3D art and animation with
Carrara.
Get Started with Carrara 8
... here's how.
Order Carrara 8
Unlock your own copy and start learning new tricks for your trade.
See examples and learn how others are using Carrara by viewing C3DE (Carrara 3D Expo Magazine).
You can do it all with Carrara 8 Pro. Model, UV-map, paint, pose, animate,
generate terrains, skies, or waters, use rigid or soft-body dynamics, import or
export, and render. Do it all with 64-bit, multi-core, multi-threaded, MAC or
WIN OS - all within a single application at an affordable price. Do it faster,
better, and at less expense than anyone else.
What's
Included & Features
NEW in PRO - 64-bit for
MAC and WIN OS - Work faster and smarter as you take
full advantage of your computers 64-bit hardware.
NEW in Pro - Bullet
Physics Library - Create and edit rigid and soft-bodies
for realistic and exciting animations. Enjoy a robust
particle system, collision detection and a remarkably fast
rigid-body physics engine.
NEW in Pro - Network
Render Optimizations - Enjoy greater control over your
render farm as you easily add and remove nodes via your
master machine. Render frames or buckets as you choose for
greater safeguarding against lost render data. Get
GRID for even more power!
NEW in Pro - Negative
Lights and Photometrics - Now you can work with negative
lights and photometrics (IES) for even greater control over
your lighting.
NEW in Pro - Editing of
Posed Meshes - Now you can do important clean-up and
detail work on your conforming objects while the model is
posed or conformed so you can see the results as you work.
Morph Creation allows you to utilize Carrara's great
modeling tools to make your own custom morph targets and
easily save them as a parameter slider within your existing
figure.
NEW Multi-Threading for
MAC and WIN OS - Spread the load on your CPU intensive
calculations.
NEW Improved FBX and
COLLADA Data Exchange - Take rigged and animated models
straight into your favorite game engines, like UnityTM, and
see how rich your experience can be with your own, or any of
DAZ 3D's existing content options. Also, import from a
variety of popular formats and/or export your work to and
from other packages including LightWave, Adobe After
Effects, 3DS, LWO, PSD, and more.
NEW Plant & Vegetation
Improvements - Add custom models and textures for unique
leaves, flowers, fruit and more. You can also use a variety
of different leaf objects per plant for natural variation.
NEW Render Time
Optimizations - Get more than 200%* improvement in
performance when rendering complex scenes using your
high-end MAC or Windows system.
NEW God Rays and Barn
Doors - Harness the creative force of god rays and the
control of barn doors as you design superior lighting for
your scenes. The Light Lab also features robust control over
lighting direction, intensity, and tinting from one or more
sources to ensure a more accurate production of real-world
environments.
NEW Normal Maps -
View normal maps both in real-time display and at
rendertime.
NEW Puppeteer for Carrara
- You asked for it, and you got it. Introducing Puppeteer
for Carrara. This tool contains everything as seen in DAZ
Studio and has been fully integrated for use with any
Carrara animation project.
3D Paint and UV
Editing/Unfolding - 3D Paint Tool that enables textures
to be selected, edited and "painted" directly onto an
object. Also a new UV Editor that shows a 3D view of the
polygon mesh, a 2D display of the UV values on the polygon
mesh vertices, and a set of tools to manipulate them.
Rendering Options -
Achieve a new level of realism in your scenes with Soft
Shadows, Blurred Reflections, Blurred Transmission, True
Ambient Lighting, Caustics, Global Illumination, Ambient
Occlusion, HDRI, Motion Blur, Subsurface Scattering, Shadow
Catch, Transparency with Absorption, Depth of Field, and
more. And, with Multi-Pass Rendering you can retouch or edit
images without having to re-render.
Vertex and Symmetrical
Modeling - Streamline the modeling process in both the
"Modeling" and "Assembly" rooms. Ideal for creating and
editing anything from characters to vehicles and more. This
feature allows users to edit both sides of a symmetrical
object at the same time.
Figure Content LOD
Support - Includes support for Content Figures that have
multiple Levels of Detail (LOD).
Non-Linear Animation
Track Groups - Using Carrara for creating animations?
This merge track tool will provide an improved interface to
create groups of tracks then collapse or expand the tracks
in those groups.
Animation and Web
Capabilities - Create Web animations, generate thumbnail
images, preview them in storyboard format, and create
virtual tours using QuickTime.
Dynamic Hair - With
the Dynamic Hair and fur modeling/simulation feature, you
can paint, cut, brush and shade hair to bring your images to
realistic life --- and do it with the greatest of ease.
Image-Editing Tools -
Import 2D images from a variety of formats, transform them
into 3D objects, then incorporate them into your scenes.
Landscape Creation and
Presets with the Landscape Wizard - Quickly and easily
produce remarkably realistic landscapes, impressive fantasy
worlds, and other dynamic scenes. Also included are presets
for terrains, waters, skies, rocks, clouds, fog, and more.
Intuitive User Interface
- Take advantage of handy palettes to create and edit
objects, design scenes and render final images quickly and
easily.
Texture Editor -
Easily import, create and edit texture presets, then save
them as new textures for future use.
Displacement Modeling
- You can paint detail on a model with the greatest of ease
--- using free-form brush tools --- almost as if you were
modeling with clay.
Ocean Primitive -
Simulating the surface of the ocean, this feature can be
used to create both still and animated oceans. You will be
able to control the waves, plus the speed and direction of
the wind.