You've seen the dramatic logo sequences with light rays eminating from the text itself and not by a separate backlight. Recreate this effect using Carrara's inverted lightshadows!

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Have you ever been tricked into thinking that a 3D sky looked too good to be true? Most likely it wasn't truly 3D. Here's a classic 3D-landscaping trick using 2D sky photos in composite 3D environments that can easily be done in Carrara because of its advanced shader system.

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This tutorial illustrates how to utilize Carrara's physics engine to simulate orbital effects using only the point force object.

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A method of giving you Camera A/Camera B option with only one camera, since that is all you are allowed to render from in Carrara.

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A way to help you if you decide to use Shading rather then Image maps for your room, but stuck for a good color.

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This tutorial will show step by step, how to load Poser characters, props, poses, and more, for use in Carrara.

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This tutorial will explain how the cameras in Carrara 5 work, allowing you to understand them, and make better pictures.

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This tutorial features Carrara's powerful video texture support to show how you can use video textures in your scene. Video textures can also be billboarded in a technique known as rotoscoping utilizing masked video for photorealistic effects.

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Making animations with special effects such as lens flares requires that lights be directed at the camera in order for the effects to be visible. Using the special "Point at" modifier in Carrara it is easy to not only manipulate objects that need to track the camera, but also manipulating lights to constantly point at the camera and enable their effects.

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