Carrara 5 supports both Macintosh and Windows platforms, takes advantage of OpenGL acceleration, and provides extensive interchange with leading design software and web tools software Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®, Macromedia® Flash® and Shockwave® and more.

Carrara 5 enables artists to build a complete animated project from start to finish -- all with a single piece of software. It multitude of features give you a robust suite of modeling, animation and rendering tools. From the multiple modelers, to the preset textures and shaders to the ultra-fast and realistic rendering, Carrara 5 gives you all you need -- wrapped in an intuitive user interface that experienced 3D artists and novices alike will embrace. Large set of procedural shaders for complex materials Keyframe animation - Bezier, Linear, Noise, etc. Motion path-based animation Inverse Kinematics (IK) & IK chains Bones & constraints Weightmaps painting - Graph Editor Photo-realistic - HDRI, Global Illumination, Caustics, Skylight, Ambiant Occlusion, Subsurface Scattering, Displacement Mapping Non Photorealistic Rendering Network Rendering G-buffer export Batch rendering

Multiple Modelers
Spline Modeler
Advanced Vertex and Surface Modeler
Metaball Modeler
Text & Formula Modelers
Environment Modelers

Assembly & Modifications
3D Manipulators
Alignment tools
Booleans operations
Collision detection
Grid projections
Numerous Modifiers (Twist, Bend, Explode, Dissolve, Spin, etc.)

Environment & Special Effects
Terrain Modeler with various real-time filters, 2D editor & special shader
Tree Modelers & presets - Object Replicator
Realistic Sky Editor
Atmosphere
Volumetric effects
Lens Flare, Motion Blur, Depth of Field, etc.

Advanced Textures & Shaders
Presets
Advanced texture editor
Layer mapping
2D UV map editor
Shading domains
Mat shadow shader
Large set of procedural shaders for complex materials

Animation
Keyframe animation: Bezier, Linear, Noise, etc.
Motion path-based animation
Inverse Kinematics (IK) & IK chains
Bones & constraints
eoviaWeightmaps painting - Graph Editor
Morph targets
Physics animation
EoviaAdvanced Particle Generator

Rendering
Ultra-fast rendering
Photo-realistic:
HDRI, Global Illumination, Caustics, Skylight, Ambiant Occlusion, Subsurface Scattering, Displacement Mapping
Non Photorealistic Rendering
Network Rendering
G-buffer export
Batch rendering

Windows
Pentium II 300Mhz or better
Windows 2000/XP/ME (with SP3 or later)
Windows Vista (XP compatibility mode)
128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
16-bit Color Display (24-bit recommended)
CD-ROM Drive
300 MB free hard drive space
3D graphics accelerator card recommended

Mac
Power Macintosh G3 266Mhz or better
Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.4
128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended)
16-bit Color Display (24-bit recommended)
CD-ROM Drive
300 MB free hard drive space
3D graphics accelerator card recommended