This is a beginners' Carrara 8 video tutorial. Collision Detection is very important to create life-like animation, so this tutorial shows you how to use it correctly.
Nine minutes of faltering, halting, hemming, and hawing.
Remember, get the stationary point of the text where you need it first, set the Bend Axis Angle to 180°, and make incremental changes to Bend Angle to find the best fit.
This is an introduction on Carrara Multi-channel mixer shaders.
This type of shader might look confusing at first but it is actually very easy to use and allows for some very complex effects.