Carrara 7.0 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.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4

With more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides users with the tools, resources and confidence to tackle a wide variety of projects - from logos and Web graphics, to multipage brochures, to high impact signage and digital displays. New text and page-layout enhancements, market-leading file format compatibility, and an expanded collection of high-quality content make this powerful suite the ultimate design partner, helping users turn inspiration into stunning results. To upgrade from a previous version see here.

A comprehensive suite of intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is the trusted choice of millions of professional and aspiring designers worldwide. The latest version of the suite includes new tools designed to fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimize the graphic design workflow.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 continues to offer the industry's best combination of usability, performance, and price. The latest version of the award-winning suite includes the following core applications and content:

• CorelDRAW X4: An intuitive vector-illustration and page layout application, CorelDRAW X4 delivers results fast, whether users are creating a company logo or working to meet demanding production schedules.
  
  
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4: Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a professional image-editing application that lets users quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos. It is specifically designed for use in a graphics workflow.
  
  
• Corel PowerTRACE X4: Professional designers often receive poor-quality bitmap images from clients and face the challenge of turning these bitmaps into high-quality vector images for business cards, brochures, signs, or other promotional items. Corel PowerTRACE X4 solves this problem by letting users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics.
  
  
• Corel CAPTURE X4: A one-click screen-capture utility, Corel CAPTURE X4 lets users capture images from an application or the Internet.
  
  
• CorelDRAW Handbook - Insights from the Experts: The new CorelDRAW Handbook features the designs of accomplished CorelDRAW experts. Providing step-by-step guidance and design insights, experts from a variety of industries demonstrate the power and versatility of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.
  
  
• Training videos: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes two hours of training videos on DVD. Topics include illustration, design, and image-editing fundamentals, industry-specific design principles, and output details for various media, such as print or the Web.
  
  
• CorelDRAW community site: Accessible from within the application, the CorelDRAW.com community site gives users a place to meet, share information and learn from other users. Combining forums, blogs, galleries, and other resources, CorelDRAW.com is a valuable source of information and inspiration for professional designers and occasional graphics users alike.
  
  
• Increased content with more than 10,000 handpicked, high-quality clipart and digital images: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 4,000 new images, 1,000 professional, high-resolution digital photos, 1,000 OpenType® fonts - content worth thousands of dollars if purchased separately. The suite also includes a printed User Guide, Digital Content Guide, and a Quick Reference Card to help new users get started quickly.

Delivering a Superior User Experience Through Improved Usability, Enhanced Interactivity, and Streamlined Workflow

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 features more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, including:

• New! Live text formatting: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 introduces live text formatting, allowing users to preview text formatting options before applying them to a document. With this time-saving feature, users can now preview many different formatting options, including fonts, font size, and alignment, removing the "trial-and-error" typically associated with the design process.
  
  
• New! Font identification: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 now integrates with WhatTheFont, the online font identification service from MyFonts.com. Users can save time by quickly identifying the font used in existing bitmap designs, artwork or other images received from clients.
  
  
• New! Independent page layers: Users can now control and edit layers independently for each page of a document, reducing the occurrence of pages with empty layers. Users can also add independent guidelines for individual pages and master guidelines for an entire document. This gives users the ability to create different layers on a page-specific basis, unconfined by a single document structure.
  
  
• New! Interactive tables: The new, interactive Table tool in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 lets users create and import tables to provide a powerful, structured layout for text and graphics. Users can easily align, resize, or edit tables and table cells to suit their designs. In addition, users can convert delimited text and easily add and adjust images in individual cells.
  
  
• Enhanced! Windows Vista integration: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is the only professional graphics suite Certified for Windows Vista. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 has been designed to take advantage of the latest innovations from Windows Vista, while still offering a superior experience for Windows XP users. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 integrates with the desktop search capabilities of Windows Vista directly from within the Open and Import dialog boxes, enabling users to search for files by author, subject, file type, date, keywords, or other file properties. Users can also easily add their own keywords, ratings or other notes when saving files in order to better organize their projects.
  
  
• New! CorelDRAW ConceptShare integration: The new CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker, accessible from within CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, integrates a valuable online collaboration tool directly within the user workflow. In a Web-based environment, CorelDRAW ConceptShare lets users share their designs and ideas with colleagues or clients in real time. Users can easily create multiple workspaces, upload their designs, and invite others to provide feedback or submit their own ideas without sending large files over email.
  
  
• New! File format support: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 maintains its position as market leader in file format compatibility by adding support for Microsoft Office Publisher. Users can also expect seamless compatibility with Microsoft Word 2007, Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, PDF 1.7 (Adobe Acrobat 8), AutoCAD DXF and AutoCAD DWG, and Corel Painter™ X, making it easier than ever to exchange files with clients and colleagues.
  
  
• New! Professionally designed templates: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 80 professionally designed and customizable templates, giving users a springboard to the design process. Flexible and easy to customize, the templates are accompanied by Designer Notes that provide information on the design choices made for the template, tips for outputting a design based on the template, and instructions for customizing the template while still adhering to design principles.
  
  
• New! Specialized fonts: An extended selection of new fonts in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 helps users ensure their output is optimized for its intended audience. This specialized collection of fonts includes single-line engraving fonts and OpenType cross-platform fonts, which offer enhanced language support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic outputs in WGL4 format.
  
  
• New! Welcome screen: With a new Welcome screen, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides users with a centralized location to access recently used documents, templates, and learning tools, which include Tips & Tricks and video tutorials. To inspire users, the Welcome screen also includes a gallery that showcases designs created by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users from around the world.
  
  

New Additions to Corel PHOTO-PAINT

• New! RAW camera file support: Corel PHOTO-PAINT now includes support for RAW camera file formats, enabling users to import RAW camera files directly from their digital camera. With support for approximately 300 different camera types and interactive controls that provide real-time previews, users can view file properties and camera settings, adjust image color and tone, and improve image quality, all from within Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 and CorelDRAW X4.
  
  
• New! Straighten image: Using Corel PHOTO-PAINT, users can quickly and easily straighten images that were scanned or photographed at an angle. With interactive controls, a grid with vertical and horizontal guidelines, and an integrated histogram that provides results in real time, PHOTO-PAINT makes it easier than ever to straighten crooked images. In addition, users can choose to have their images automatically cropped.
  
  
• Enhanced! Tone Curve adjustments: With the enhanced Tone Curve dialog box, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 users can adjust their images with greater precision. With an integrated histogram, users now receive real-time feedback as they make adjustments to their images. In addition, the new Eyedropper tool lets users pinpoint specific color locations on the tone curve of their image, as well as select, add, or delete nodes along the tone curve.

Carrara 7.0 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.

Poser 7 - Complete 3D Figure Design and Animation

Poser 7 provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Using the rich collection of content included and powerful rendering to produce any style art, creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists can create stunning art, fine illustration and breathtaking animation for applications that integrate the diversity and spirit of human imagery.

With Poser, you can design using the human form for art, illustration, comics, pre-viz/storyboarding, medical visualization, animation, architecture and education - essentially everywhere your creative mind may take you as you design for print, video, film, or web!

Features

• Complete 3D Figure Design - Create any figure imaginable using Poserfs powerful 3D toolset. Scale and manipulate individual body parts, modify facial expressions, customize ethnicity, add clothing and props, and pose your figures down to the finest detail.
• Powerful Rendering Capabilities - Poserfs powerful FireFly render engine delivers high-quality artistic effects for creating extraordinary, professional renders with natural lighting, shadows, reflections and refractions. Customize your final output in many styles, including photorealism, sketch, cartoon, silhouette and more.
• Animation Controls - Poserfs animation tools are designed to help you create stunning, realistic animations without much of the repetitive work involved in animating figures. Poser includes automatic keyframe creation, non-linear animation, lip-syncing and a walk simulator to simplify the animation process.
• Dynamic Hair and Cloth - Dynamic props move with your figure and add realism to your animations. Clothing drapes and deforms just as it should in real-life over a human figure, while hair can be grown, styled and controlled dynamically as if blown by the wind.
• Loaded With 3D Content - Poser includes high resolution male and female figures, children, animals, cartoons, robots, and more - over 80 fully textured figure models in all. Hundreds of poses, facial expressions, full body morphs, hair, clothing, light sets and props are also included so you can get started fast. Plus, sound and motion files included add life to your figures and scenes.

New in Poser 7

• New Content - Poser 7 comes with over 1GB of high resolution 3D content. Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures, plus loads of exclusive third party content, new wildlife, new motion capture data, light sets, poses, materials, and lots more.
• Lip Syncing - Using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! Talk Designer will work with Sydney and Simon, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures.
• Multiple Undo and Redo - Return to earlier poses and designs, and step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Poser 7fs Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.
• Multi-Threaded Rendering and HDRI Support - Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering (up to four threads) on machines with multiple CPUs. Poser 7 creates even more realistic images with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support for Image Based Lighting and textures.
• Non-Linear Animation - Use Poser 7fs new Animation Layers to separate the various parts of an animation into independent pieces that can be individually moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out.
• Brush-like Morphing Tools - Poser 7fs new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily create custom morphs on your figures just like you would with any brush tool.
• Universal Poses - Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser 7, regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see consistent, high quality results!