Next step:

I plan to release this plugin to the Carrara community within a few weeks. Unfortunately, this first release will support only Windows because I do not own a Mac.

For the next steps, giving access to more Carrara features is the main target. The dream is to map the whole SDK API to Python, but this is a quite big job because of the richness of the SDK !

If we can find some volunteers with C++ coding skills, this project could be continued as a collaborative effort: this is a solution to speedup the development and to provide multi-platform support. Please, leave me a message on the DAZ3D board if you want to contribute to this exciting project !

Frederic's backgroud:

I am a hobbyist user of CG applications for several years, mostly because I am fascinated by Pixar's films ! After seeing several films I wanted to understand what was under the hood. As I love to learn by the practice, I started to use Blender and some other CG applications. After a few months devoted to static images, I wanted to make some animations and discovered Carrara which is great in this area. By spending many weeks on Carrara NLA, I discovered that making CG animations is very hard, even with good tools ! Now, I did not watch the films made by great CG artists with the same eyes, and my wonder is growing.