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The tutorials are being revised at this time with more specific version related steps. While many of these tutorials give specific instructions for Carrara 5, many are so performable with Carrara 3 and Carrara 4. The tutorials will be altered with additional information and specific downloadable files to reflect this range where appropreate. To find out which versions of Carrara a tutorial can be completed on, please read the discription for that tutorial.

Carrara Tutorials

Animation Tutorials

Carrara 5 Beta's Graph Editor

Ball Bounce

A simple animation of a ball bouncing done with key frames, morph targets usage and using Carrara 5's Graph Editor.

UV Editor Collection

Carrara 5 Beta's UV Editor

Overview

This article discusses the following UV Tutorials and outlines the general expectations from the reader and the structure of what the tutorials will cover.

UV Tutorial #1, Placing a texture on a leaf

Starting Simple

The beginning tutorial that walks you through the steps to creating and applying a leaf shader, creating a grid, and setting up the UV's for that grid.

UV Tutorial #2, Placing a texture on a Pencil

Working with Edge to Edge Textures

Learn to deal with objects that have textures that wrap around them through a tutorial about a pencil. Learn to export a 2D image map for painting your own textures.

UV Tutorial #3, Creating a Metal Box

Dealing with Box-like objects

Learn how to set up shading domains and use those shading domains to split up a model for easier editing in the UV Editor.

UV Tutorial #3, Creating a Metal Box

Mixing Different Ways to Unwrap a Model

This tutorial shows how to combine multiple objects into one texture map as well as using different unwrapping methods on each shadding domain.

Plug-ins Tutorials

Carrara 5 Beta's Graph Editor

Intro to Anything Goos

Anything Goos is a plugin developed by the Digital Cravers Guild (DCG). This tutorial is about texturing a low-polygon bird bath.