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    Eovia Carrara 5

    Eovia Carrara 5

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    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
    Sales Rank: 11426

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
    Media: CD-ROM
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
    Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 1.7

    MPN: ccs0500f01duspa
    UPC: 851685000348
    EAN: 0851685000348
    ASIN: B000GI67T4

    Features:
      • Modelers for spline, metaball, vertex and surfaces, text & formula, and environment
      • Tools to create any kind of shape - 3D Manipulators, alignment tools, Boolean operations, collision detection and grid projections
      • Terrain Modeler with various real-time filters, 2D editor & special shader
      • Lens Flare, Motion Blur, Depth of Field effects
      • Mat shadow shader
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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    Carrara 5 enables artists to build a complete animated project from start to finish -- all with a single piece of software. It multitude of features give you a robust suite of modeling, animation and rendering tools. From the multiple modelers, to the preset textures and shaders to the ultra-fast and realistic rendering, Carrara 5 gives you all you need -- wrapped in an intuitive user interface that experienced 3D artists and novices alike will embrace. Large set of procedural shaders for complex materials Keyframe animation - Bezier, Linear, Noise, etc. Motion path-based animation Inverse Kinematics (IK) & IK chains Bones & constraints Weightmaps painting - Graph Editor Photo-realistic - HDRI, Global Illumination, Caustics, Skylight, Ambiant Occlusion, Subsurface Scattering, Displacement Mapping Non Photorealistic Rendering Network Rendering G-buffer export Batch rendering

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars An Amazing Program   August 14, 2007
    Dgtlsrcrss
    3 out of 3 found this review helpful

    First of all: Carrara is not an application for those seeking the highest of high results (wind simulation, etc.), as can be found in programs like Maya and Lightwave. However, for those of us who may or may not be in a professional studio, but simply want an understandable and extremely powerful rendering program (as well as a much cheaper one), Carrara definitely fits the bill.
    The layout in this program is very pleasing, and retains the friendly feeling familiar to those of us who use the excellent but lower-level program, DAZ Studio. Carrara sports easy-to-learn modeling tools, and is almost fully compatible with Poser scenes and objects/files. (DAZ scene compatibility will be available by version 6.)
    The best thing about Carrara, however, is probably its fast and very easy to use rendering engine. It supports HDRI lighting and much more, but maintains a very simplistic screen for its rendering controls. (The first thing you will probably notice is that the list of rendering options is only 1 panel long.)
    I cannot recommend Carrara enough to people interested in getting photorealistic (or not) results with the simplest and easiest to use of interfaces. As you can see by looking at the images on the company's official website (www.daz3d.com), it delivers amazing results, but the interface and tools are exponentially easier to use than those of any other 3D application in its class.
    Plus its really light on system resources.


    4 out of 5 stars using it daily   May 22, 2007
    michael weinmann (Toms River, NJ)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    I'm an exhibit designer so please keep in mind what I use this program for. I don't use the landscapes except for my personal projects. I don't do allot of maping or exterior lighting. I love the hot keys and found them easier to use than 4 and love the moving windows and the lighting is spectacular. It's much faster to get to files and objects. Much more work space and tutorials are great. The only down side is after about a year of using it every day, it seems to be acting a little funny, like a car that needs it's oil changed or something. Only a handful of times I've had the program shut down in the middle of a project.
    I only wish that the the units were much easier converted to inches(down to the 1/4") The larger the sceen the longer it takes to render and saving people takes forever.
    Ove all... lots of fun and have taught teenagers to use it in an hour.
    Best,
    MIke

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