Carrara Career 2004-02-25 - By Peter MacDougall
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There are two ways to look at this:
A lot of us to use a Carrara in paying work. Carrara is easy to learn,
cheap, and quite powerful. Most of our clients do not care how we
produce the image and only care about the quality of the image.
However, if you want to get into the business as a 3D modeler, texture
artist, lighting expert, or character animator, it would be important
to get some experience with the more expensive 3D applications such as
3D Studio Max, Lightwave, or Maya. You could either take a course or
use the free g-Max or Maya personal learning edition. You will need to
have some proficiency with the way these tools work and their user
interface paradigm.
However, in the end any game or 3-D production company hires its staff
based on general artistic skills and knowledge (how to draw, color
theory, designed theory, animation theory...) rather than specific
application knowledge. Artistic skills are hard to learn and require
some talent whereas anyone can be trained to use a specific piece of
software. The fellow who is doing Rust Boy, for example, would have no
trouble finding a job as he clearly has the skills necessary for 3-D
production even though he uses old and not top-of-the-line software.
I think Carrara is an easy way to be introduced to common 3D concepts
and techniques although users of the more expensive applications
sometimes claim that Carrara will not prepare you for using their
applications because Carrara's interface is sufficiently different.
However the underlying concepts about how the software produces an
image (surfaces creation, specularlity, transparency, keyframe
animation...) are the same.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:28:38 -0000, genecass wrote:
>Is anybody out there making money with this software? Is anyone
>hiring Carrara artists? Is Carrara just a toy in the industry or
>does it have a meat & potatoes future?
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Peter MacDougall
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