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Topics covered on this course include:
Introduction
- Introduction / Terminology / Scope Demo
- New in Carrara Pro 6 pt. 1 Demo
- New In Carrara Pro 6 pt. 2 Demo
Interface
- Interface Tour Demo
- Room Tour / Assembly pt. 1 Demo
- Room Tour / Assembly pt. 2 Demo
- Room Tour / Model Demo
- Room Tour / Storyboard Demo
- Room Tour / Texture Demo
- Room Tour / Render Demo
- Browser / Content Manager Demo
- General 3D Best Methods Demo
- Preferences Demo
Using The Cameras
- The Three Basic Cameras Demo
- Camera Properties pt. 1 Demo
- Camera Properties pt. 2 Demo
- Using Cameras For Navigating Your 3D Space Demo
- Navigating With Track / Dolly / Pan / Bank Tools Demo
- Advanced Motion Paths For Camera Movement Demo
Creating Scenes
- Using the Universal Manipulator
- Primitive Objects
- Creating Text Objects
- Formula Objects
- Creating Plants
- Ocean Primitive
- Exploring the Scene Wizard and Browser
- Creating Your Own Carrara Library of Objects
- Importing 3D Models
Managing Scene Elements
- Setting Up a Scene
- Grouping / Nesting and Hotpoints
- Moving / Scaling and Rotating
- Aligning / Duplicating / Distributing and Spacing Objects
- Using the Eye Dropper
- Advanced Scene Management
Lighting a Scene
- Scene Lighting Controls
- Using the Distant Light
- Using the Spot Light pt. 1
- Using the Spot Light pt. 2
- Using the Bulb Light
- Using the Anything Glows Light
- Environment Light Tool
- Using the Shape and Tube Light
- Master Lights
- Moon and Sun Light
- Best Methods For Lighting
- Advanced Special Lighting Effects
- Advanced HDRI and IBL lighting pt. 1
- Advanced HDRI and IBL lighting pt. 2
- Advanced Ambient Occlusion
Modifiers and Behaviors
- Using Modifiers and Behaviors
- Behaviors for Animation pt. 1
- Behaviors for Animation pt. 2
The Carrara 6 Modelers
- Comparing Spline / Vertex and Metaball Modelers
Spline Modeler
- Creating Cross Sections
- Creating a Jet Engine
- Jet Engine Continued
- Advanced Importing From Drawing Programs
- Advanced Additional Imports
- Extrusion Methods pt. 1
- Extrusion Methods pt. 2 (with Compounds)
Vertex Modeler
- Vertex Room Basics
- Selecting Deleting Dissolving
- Polylines Sweeps
- Dynamic Extrusion
- Lathing and Lofting
- Tool Integration / Creasing / Smoothing
- Linking / Polygon Tool / Tesselate and Add Tool
- Boolean
- Cut Tool
- Subdivision Smoothing and Soft Selection
- Symmetry Change and Drawing Plane
- Edge Tools pt. 1
- Edge Tools pt. 2
- Pro Tool Modeling
- Gordon / Coons / Ruled and Double
- Bridge Tool
- Advanced Displacement Painting pt. 1
- Advanced Displacement Painting pt. 2
- Advanced UV Mapping pt. 1
- Advanced UV Mapping pt. 2
- Advanced UV Mapping pt. 3
- Advanced UV Mapping pt. 4
- Advanced UV Mapping pt. 5
- Advanced Morph Targets pt. 1
- Advanced Morph Targets pt. 2
Metaball Modeler
- Using the Metaball Modeler pt. 1
- Using the Metaball Modeler pt. 2
Plant Modeler
- Building Plants pt. 1
- Building Plants pt. 2
- Building Plants pt. 3
- Building Plants pt. 4
- Make a Bush
- Advanced Custom Leaves pt. 1
- Advanced Custom Leaves pt. 2
Creating Terrains and Skies
- Introduction to Terrain Objects
- Creating and Modifying a Terrain
- Using the Map Editor
- Terrain Shader
- Creating Realistic Skies
Hair
- Creating Hair pt. 1
- Creating Hair pt. 2 (Groups)
- Guide Hair and Density
- Guide Hair and Curling
- Guide Hair Addition Draping
- Advanced Domain Selection
- Advanced Symmetry and Hair Groups
- Advanced Resets Styling Drapes
- Advanced PostDrape Styling pt. 1
- Advanced PostDrape Styling pt. 2
- Advanced Shader Control
- Advanced Texture Map Controls
Using the Replicators
- What are the Two Replicators?
- The Replicator pt. 1
- The Replicator pt. 2
- Animated Replicator
- The Surface Replicator pt. 1
- The Surface Replicator pt. 2
- Advanced Shader Map Surface Rep
Using Shaders
- Shader Introduction
- Shader Tree and Basic Shader Functions
- Using the Shader Tree and Applying Shaders
- Mixer
- Multichannel Mixer
- Working With Texture Maps
- Texture Maps / Reference Shader
- Displacement Maps pt. 1
- Displacement Maps pt. 2
- Shader Domains and Layer Lists Domains pt. 1
- Layer List Domains pt. 2
- Layer List Domains pt. 3
- Layer List Domains pt. 4
- Layer List Domains pt. 5
- Translucence
- Subsurface Scattering pt. 1
- Subsurface Scattering pt. 2
- Transparency with Absorbtion pt 1
- Transparency with Absorbtion pt. 2
- Advanced Complex Shader Development
- Advanced Animated Displacement Mapping pt. 1
- Advanced Animated Displacement Mapping pt. 2
- Advanced Refraction and Reflection pt. 1
- Advanced Refraction and Reflection pt. 2
- Advanced The Terrain Shader pt. 1
- Advanced The Terrain Shader pt. 2
- Advanced Elevation controls
- Advanced Shader Plug-ins pt. 1
- Advanced Shader Plug-ins pt. 2
Adding Natural and Environmental Elements
- Using Particles pt. 1
- Using Particles pt. 2
- Using Particles pt. 3
- Advanced Animating Particle Maps
- Fire
- Fountains
- Fog
- Adding Volumetric Clouds
Animating a Scene
- Working With Keyframes
- Tweeners
- Motion Paths
- Using Physics
- Advanced NonLinear Animation
- Advanced Timeline Graph Editor
- Advanced Camera Animation and Effects
Character Animation
- Basic Rigging
- Inverse Kinematics
- Weightmap Painting
- Bones with Symmetry pt. 1
- Bones with Symmetry pt. 2
- Motion for Organics pt. 1
- Motion for Organics pt. 2
- Motion Constraints For Robots
- Advanced Rigging Morph Targets
Rendering
- Best-methods For Rendering pt. 1
- Best-methods For Rendering pt. 2
- Choosing a Render Engine
- Rendering Still Images
- Rendering Animations
- Rendering With Global Illumination
- Ambient Occlusion
- Rendering Irradiance Maps
- Rendering Caustics
- Rendering G-Buffers
- Batch and Network Rendering
Conclusion
- Wrap-Up and Resources
- Contact Information
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