Some tutorials: http://www.eovia.com/resources/carrara_tutorials/carrara_tutorials.asp Familiarizing yourself with the user interface I guess, as that's all you get for free of these video tuts. http://www.eovia.com/products/carrara_addons/training_cd.asp Current issue is free, but doesn't really have any great newbie tutorials, but it's free, and let's you have a look at the Carrara and Amapi, and soon to come Hexagon, ezine: http://www.3dxtract.com/ The backroom here on renderosity has a couple of tuts, kind of old, but they still work: http://market.renderosity.com/~carrara