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Carrara 8 – Basic Users Guide
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Welcome to Carrara 8
Welcome to DAZ 3D Carrara, the latest 3D program for desktop artists and animators, Web designers, and multimedia
producers. Carrara is ideal for creating 3D graphics for magazines, ads, Web sites, or almost any illustration that would benefit
from the powerful 3D impact of realistic perspective and shading.
Carrara software’s powerful animation features let you create professional quality animations and models for video, multimedia,
and the Internet. With Carrara software’s key-event, dynamic, and timeline-based animation, you can produce anything
from flying logos to character animations. You can create broadcast quality output for square or non-square pixels, and output
that is NTSC color safe.
Carrara offers a complete 3D graphic development environment in one package, allowing you to create a scene, model ob ­
jects that populate it, and create environmental effects. You can then animate the results if desired and, finally, render the res ­
ulting scene, using one application.
Carrara can also be an invaluable tool for interactive multimedia. It supports low-polygon modeling and popular formats such
as GIF, JPEG, OBJ, 3DS, AVI, Quicklime, and sequenced movies.
Carrara software’s open architecture allows new functionality to be added through extensions. The easy-to-use interface is designed
around the SmartFlow workflow, guiding you through the 3D creation process, yet allowing complete creative freedom.
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