Carrara 7 3D Art and Animation

An ideal 3D workhorse within any designer's creative suite, the highly-affordable Carrara 7 lavishes speed and power that enables users to create more freely and deliver the highest-caliber results under even the tightest deadlines. Finally, there is a single solution for realistic figure posing and animation combined with advanced modeling, terrain-building, physics, and rendering that is readily compatible with a large array of 3D assets. If you're a 3D professional, illustrator, creative designer, digital photographer, hobbyist, or student, you owe it to yourself to check out Carrara 7.

Carrara 7 delivers a multitude of features that enable artists to build a project - from start to finish - with a single piece of software. From the multiple modelers, to the preset textures and shaders, to the ultra-fast and realistic rendering, users will find the toolset delivered in Carrara 7 to be full-featured and complete.

Carrara is recognized as a robust, versatile software package of 3D tools that includes modeling, rigging, animating, terrain-building, rendering, and more. With the addition of NLA Track Groups, Vertex Modeling in the Assembly Room, LOD Support for Figures, Improved Content Support, UV Relax Seams, and a COLLADA Export, the time for Carrara is now.

Sporting its familiar, elegant and easy-to-use interface, Carrara 7 provides 3D artists like you a professional, advanced, and complete tool set to take your art to exciting new horizons. Whether you work with people and places, landscapes and skyscapes, lights and shaders, plants, and oceans, or particles and physics, Carrara 7 will help bring your imagination to life.

Vertex Modeling -- The Vertex Modeling capabilities that were previously only available in the "Modeling" room are now available in the "Assembly" room.

COLLADA Export -- COLLADA is becoming a new standard for transferring content. In this new release of Carrara, you will be able to export your models in this new format. (WIN OS only)

Figure Content LOD Support -- Carrara 7 also includes support for Content Figures that have multiple Levels of Detail (LOD).

Non-Linear Animation Track Groups -- Using Carrara for creating animations? This new merge track tool will provide an improved interface to create groups of tracks then collapse or expand the tracks in those groups.

Improved Content Support -- Better capabilities in bringing DAZ 3D products into Carrara. Requires DAZ Studio 2.3.3.138 or higher (2.3.3.146 is strongly recommended).

Dynamic Hair -- With the Dynamic Hair and fur modeling/simulation feature, you can paint, cut, brush and shade hair to bring your images to realistic life --- and do it with the greatest of ease.

Symmetrical Modeling -- Streamline the modeling process. Ideal for creating and editing anything from characters to vehicles and more. This new feature allows users to edit both sides of a symmetrical object at the same time.

Rendering Options -- Now you can achieve a new level of realism in your scenes with Soft Shadows, Blurred Reflections, Blurred Transmission, True Ambient Lighting, Caustics, Global Illumination, Ambient Occlusion, HDRI, Motion Blur, Subsurface Scattering, Shadow Catch, Transparency with Absorption, Depth of Field, and more.