Hi Carrara Users! Just wanted to alert you to the fact that the site geekatplay.com now has a section dedicated to FREE Carrara tutorials which I'll be writing, to complement their extensive sets of tutorials for other 3d application such as vue, hexagon, photoshop...

The carrara section is at
http://www.geekatplay.com/pnina.php

Let me introduce myself, as I'm new to this forum.

My name is Pnina Osguthorpe (also known as ArtPearl).

My professional career involved scientific research in the field of computational Chemistry. This included some computer graphics, to visualize the structure of complex molecules and simulations of their dynamic behavior

My artistic activities have centered on watercolor painting. I started using CG applications such as Poser , Vue and Hexagon mainly to set up virtual models and scenes which are then painted in watercolor. However, with time I started creating CG images as a 'creation' on their own accord.
(Please have a look at my gallery here at renderosity)

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I am relatively new to Carrara and still learning the ropes. I am planning to make a serious of tutorials while I am still in the process of learning. Instead of the more common approach of 'Follow me, I know this road well. Trust me I'm an expert' I want to try the approach 'Walk with me, we will discover together what lies ahead' I'm hoping that the experience I gained from traditional art and from the other CG applications I learnt so far will help me navigate this journey without too many mishaps and make this a mutually beneficial experience.

As a first phase, to ease us into the Carrara experience, I want to go through the work flow with a simple project – we are going on a picnic! This will involve modeling some objects we need (starting with a picnic table) and texturing (shading) them. We will create the setting by modeling the terrain add some vegetation and a 'water feature', add some living creature(s) set the atmosphere and render our scene. Maybe even a short animation at the end of the picnic...

Hopefully we will return to some of these tasks later on and learn some more advanced or sophisticated ways to carry them out.

At the moment the tutorials are in a pdf/print format, but I may have video tutorials too in the future.

Feedback of any sort - comments, questions, suggestions will be very welcome!

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
http://artpearl.redbubble.com/