One other thing and sorry I'm lazy to ask and not search for answer  - I know 3Dxchange imports objects  but Is CC3 good for importing 3d models and what format ? I tried fbx from Daz Studio but that didn't work.

Forgot to say the figure in the screen shot  is the default loaded when starting CC3 - Deleting it doesn't seem to be a piece of cake either.
Have spent last few days trying to get to grips with the demo software which stopped  working for while after an update - help desk advised me on that.
Thanks for posting the videos guys however I'm thinking the learning curve is a stiff one. I'm running out of demo days now but unfortunately my experience so far has not been good. A $400 spend [ 500odd in my Australian dollars ] for IC7,CC3 and the resource pack is a lot to fork out for an unknown quantity !! Maybe they will extend the demo.

Impoert Daz chars. Piece of cake  ? Not for me
I followed the video about importing daz chars as fbx but get errors all the time .Pretty sure I used the same fbx settings on a G8male naked and applied the T pose before export Here is a typical result. Any suggestions as to what is wrong ?

Since I showed my Carrara animation with a CC3 animated figure, I've made a quick video in Iclone using the same motion and scenery item.
I gave myself a very quick crash-course in using Iclone's lights (I'm only on version 6 BTW) and rendered the video below.
It was dashed out just to get see a sample of effects and lights and to make a hasty comparison with the Carrara video (which I took more care with).

Making movies with iClone is my life's biggest passion, I just wish I could somehow do this full time and make money from it.

Still hoping that one day my channel/videos go viral.

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My iClone short films: https://www.youtube.com/iClone316

Thanks, Animagic, my work is generally poor because I mainly just try this and that but I was quite pleased with this.

I used just one prop - something called 'Hidden Grotto' which I bought a couple of years ago and only installed today!  I buy extremely few assets for one reason or another but on that occasion I bought about half a dozen things from Renderosity and this is the first one of them I've looked at.  I just didn't get round to them before! 

I used one bulb light and one spotlight (which had some ivy in front of it to cast a few shadows).  The background is a plane with a photo of trees in the mist which I took earlier this year.

The hair and clothing could (I believe) be given physics simulation with the VWD program for cloth and hair.  I use it in Poser but need to buy a plugin for Carrara.
So perhaps there is a viable workflow from CC3 Pipeline to Carrara rendering.

Some Carrara users render in Octane or in Luxrender, neither of which I know anything about.  Plugins are needed and I think Luxrender was updated recently.  I don't know whether the Carrara plugin is out of date now??

Grimhilda, I think that looks very nice. I don't know what kind of renderer Carrara uses, but it has a nice quality.

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Animagic expressed an interest in any progress I made with bringing animated (.fbx) characters from CC3 Pipeline to Carrara for rendering.
Here is an example I made today using DAZ Genesis 2.

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Bringing in almost any Gen figure is a piece of cake IF you use CC3 Pipeline.  You can do it with XChange, but I wouldn't bother nowadays.

Takes less than five minutes and looks tremendous.  Works with clothing, hair, accessories, etc.  I have brought in literally hundreds of avatars and thousands of pieces of clothing without a hitch.

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Just been watching topic " buy out Daz" https://forum.reallusion.com/405610/Reallusion-Why-not-buy-out-Daz?PageIndex=2 
Bringing in Genesis is apparently not as simple as RI makes out OR should I now be using Character Creator 3 for that.
My confusion grows !!!!!!!