I'm working my way through the VTC videos for Carrara 5. Excellent training! Well worth the $30.
So are you working on the next C6 videos? What I like is that you have some interesting compositions that are inspiring, not just ball, cubes and cones. Voice is well paced and modulated. Sometimes you had some very intersting scenes but you didn't render them out. I wish you would show what the final render would look like even though it's not part of the story.

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Thanks for the kind words! Can't speak to the C6 possibilities yet since the software isn't even released yet but I'll let you know. Which scenes did you have in mind?

The one image I wanted to see rendered is in the chapter on General 3D Best Methods. The picture of the City block, wine glass and Palm tree.

Here's a full shot and then a detail.

And the details...

Love it. Was this an ad or just a dream? All done in Carrara? Even the tomatos anc crackers?

It was a poster for the Charleston Food and Wine Festival last year. All done in Carrara except for the Glass/liquid, the Palm Tree and background sky. The Glass was done in Hexagon so I could take advantage of the bending tools which yield better results than Carrara for a compound distortion like this. The tree was exported from Vue 6i since it was a match for the kind that they apparently have around the Charleston area - why reienvent the wheel. ;) The background sky was rendered in Vue 6i with a spherical camera and then imported into Carrara. Carrara has a very, very good sky atmosphere gereator. Vue has a great atmosphere generator. It was simply faster for me to create what I need with Vue. In my business, deadline is king - always. I'm basically an art mercenary and will use what ever it takes to get the job done on time. Textures were all created in Carrara.