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Introduction

• Introduction Demo
• New in Carrara Pro 5 Demo
• Interface Tour Demo
• Room Tour - Assembly Demo
• Room Tour - Model Demo
• Room Tour - Storyboard Demo
• Room Tour - Texture Demo
• Room Tour - Render Demo
• General 3D Best Methods Demo

Using The Cameras

• Using Cameras For Navigating Your 3D Space Demo
• The Four Basic Cameras Demo
• Navigating With Track/Dolly/Pan/Bank Tools Demo
• Advanced - Motion Paths For Camera Movement Demo

Creating Scenes

• Using the Universal Manipulator Demo
• Primitive Objects Demo
• Creating Text Objects Demo
• Formula Objects Demo
• Creating Plants Demo
• Advanced - Creating Your Own Plants pt. 1 Demo
• Advanced - Creating Your Own Plants pt. 2 Demo
• Exploring the Scene Wizard & Browser Demo
• Creating Your Own Carrara Library of Objects Demo
• Importing 3D Models Demo
• Best-methods For Scene Management Demo

Managing Scene Elements

• Setting Up a Scene
• Moving/Scaling/Rotating Scene Elements
• Aligning/Duplicating/Distributing/Spacing Objects
• Using the Eye Dropper

Lighting a Scene

• Basic Scene Lighting
• Using the Distant Light
• Using the Spot Light
• Using the Bulb Light
• Using the Anything Glows Light
• Using the Shape & Tube Light
• Best-methods For Lighting
• Advanced - Special Lighting Effects

Modifiers

• Using Modifiers & Deformers
• Grouped Modifiers

The Three Carrara 5 Modelers

• Comparing Spline/Vertex/Metaball Modelers

Spline Modeler

• Creating Cross Sections
• Creating a Wine Glass
• Advanced - Importing From Other Drawing Programs
• Advanced 2 - Additional Imports
• Extrusion Methods

Vertex Modeler

• Vertex Basics
• Extruding & Sweeping
• Lathing & Lofting
• Tool Integration/Creasing/Smoothing
• Booleans & the Cut Tool
• Drawing/Ruled/Double Sweep Surfaces Tools
• Drawing/Gordon/Coons Surfaces Tools
• Edge Tools

Metaball Modeler

• Using the Metaball Modeler

Creating Terrains

• Introduction to Terrain Objects
• Creating & Modifying a Terrain
• Using the Map Editor
• Creating Realistic Skies

Using the Replicators

• What are the Two Replicators?
• The Replicator pt. 1
• The Replicator pt. 2
• The Surface Replicator
• Advanced - Shader Controlled Surface Replication

Using Shaders

• Shader Introduction
• Shader Tree & Basic Shader Functions
• Using the Shader Tree & Applying Shaders
• Working With the Multi-Channel Mixer
• Working With Texture Maps
• Displacement Maps
• Shader Domains & Layer Lists
• Layer Lists Continued
• Advanced - Complex Shader Development
• Advanced - Animated Displacement Mapping
• Advanced - Refraction & Reflection
• Translucence
• Advanced - The Terrain Shader
• Advanced - Terrain Shader Continued

Adding Natural & Environmental Elements

• Using Particles pt. 1
• Using Particles pt. 2
• Advanced - Animating Particles & Particle Maps
• Adding Fire/Fountains/Fog
• Adding Volumetric Clouds

Animating a Scene

• Working With Keyframes
• Tweeners
• Motion Paths
• Using Physics & Behaviors
• Advanced - Using the Timeline Graph Editor
• Advanced - Camera Animation & Effects

Character Animation

• Basic Rigging
• Adding Bones
• Motion Constraints & Inverse Kinematics For Organic Shapes
• Influencing Bones With Weightmap Painting
• Motion Constraints For Robots
• Creating & Using Morph Targets

Importing Poser Files

• Importing With Transposer & Poser Native Files

Rendering

• Best-methods For Rendering
• Choosing a Render Engine
• Rendering Still Images
• Rendering Animations
• Rendering With Global Illumination/Caustics/Ambient Occlusion/Irradiance maps
• Batch Rendering & Network Rendering

Conclusion

• Wrap-Up
• Contact Information