Chaos Group Buys Render Legion
At the D2 Conference 2017, Chaos Group announced that it had bought the company Render Legion and with it the popular Corona Renderer.
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A Toast to C4D and V-Ray
There is something free again: alcohol. Unfortunately – or fortunately – not for drinking, however.
Chaosgroup V-Ray 2017 Showreel
New video from ChaosGroup: The 2017 showreel for the V-Ray renderer with work by BLUR Studio, Mackevision, ILM, MPC and other VFX studios.
animago AWARD 2017: Vote for the Best Still
Public Voting Time! Select your favourite computer-generated image. Which one deserves to win the animago trophy in the category “Best Still”?
Looking Back at animago 2016: “Best Still” Category – Architecture
Last year, we once again received great CG stills for the animago AWARD. Here is an overview of some participants on the theme of "architectural visualizations" (including interiors).
V-Ray 3.5 for Maya Webinar
If you missed the webinar on V-Ray 3.5 for Maya, you can catch up here. The new features of Chaosgroup's renderer are shown.
Music of the future at BMW
A robot walks towards a black-painted grand piano. Orchestral music begins and transforms the road tunnel into a…
Hairy Showcase Reel for Ornatrix
The Ornatrix tool offers tools for procedural hair creation in Maya and 3ds Max and is supported by V-Ray, Arnold and other renderers.
V-Ray 3.5 for Maya Released
Chaosgroup's V-Ray renderer in version 3.5 is now also available for Maya. There will soon be a free webinar on the new features.
Chaos Group: V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max
Even faster and better? Chaos Group is releasing a new version of the V-Ray renderer for 3ds Max that promises faster rendering features.
“Citipati” Wins Annie Award
In the “Best Student Project” category, Andreas Feix’s diploma film “Citipati” won the prize at the 44th Annie Awards. To celebrate, our readers can download the making-of from DP 04 : 16 free of charge.
To Fly Once
The graduation film “Le Constructeur de Malheur” from Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences is about a great dream pursued by scientist Hugo. It took part in the 2015 animago AWARD, and the film is now online in full.
animago Still Gallery: Product Visualisation
Every year, the best CG stills are honoured at the animago AWARD. Beyond that, of course, we receive many more entries from all over the world that also deserve to be presented.
animago Still Gallery: People
Every year, the best CG stills are honoured at the animago AWARD. Beyond that, of course, we receive many more entries from all over the world that also deserve to be presented. This gallery is very human.
Phoenix FD 3.0 for Autodesk 3ds Max
Chaos Group has released version 3.0 of the fluid dynamics plug-in Phoenix FD.
The Alphabet of Death
People – you should stay away from them. After "Accidents, Blunders and Calamities", as a member of this species, you believe that too. The black-humoured work by the Media Design School is nominated this year in the "Young Talent" category of the animago AWARD.
Architecture Nominees for the Detail Special Prize
One day after the official animago jury session, the Detail jury trio met at NEC Display Solutions to find the six nominees for the special architecture prize. Here we present the projects.
animago Still Gallery: Still Lifes
Every year, the best CG stills are honoured at the animago AWARD. But the other entries also deserve to be presented. From an art-historical perspective, still lifes are highly significant, and modern digital artists still like to choose this image genre.
animago Still Gallery: Robots
Every year, the best CG stills are honoured at the animago AWARD. Of course, many more entries from around the world also reach us and deserve to be presented. Here are the most beautiful robot stills.
V-Ray for Modo Is Here
"V-Ray for Modo" is optimised for rendering large productions and photorealistic design projects on both CPUs and GPUs.
Free GPU Rendering Guide
Chaos Group provides answers to questions about hardware and offers insights into myths, trends and the future of rendering technology.
animago Still Gallery: Interior Architecture & More
At the animago AWARD, in addition to the nominated works, we naturally receive many more entries from around the world that also deserve to be presented. Here are the best interior visualisations. If you also have an impressive still on the subject of "interior visualisation", submit it by 30 June—for the 20th anniversary there is a special architecture category in cooperation with the trade magazine Detail.
animago Still Gallery: Nature
Fancy a little digital relaxation? Here we show you the most impressive animago still submissions from last year on the subject of "Landscape and Nature".
animago Still Gallery: Archviz
The animago AWARD honours the best CG stills each year. Many more entries from around the world also deserve to be presented, like these archviz works.
animago Still Gallery: Creatures & Animals
The animago AWARD honours the best CG stills each year. Many more entries from around the world also deserve to be presented.
New Scanning Option from Chaos Group
VRscans, a new complete material-scanning service, is intended to enable exact replication of physical materials with millimetre accuracy.
animago Still Gallery: Digital Beauties
The animago AWARD honours the best CG stills each year, while many more worthy entries from around the world also deserve to be presented.
Building a Flemish Brick Wall
Vizpark shows how to create the V-Ray material for a Flemish brick wall with the Omnitiles plug-in and 3ds Max.
Guide to Successful VR Projects
VR is on everyone’s lips, but many people don’t really know what, how, why ... V-Ray developer Chaos Group has now published a Virtual Reality Guide for artists.
V-Ray 3.3 for 3ds Max
The new update is intended to render V-Ray 3ds Max scenes up to 50 percent faster—all further features in this overview video. And: we want this cake!
Recreating an Ikea Blanket in V-Ray
You can avoid the crowds at Ikea by simply recreating the home accessories digitally. Here is how to design the shader for the "Ektorp" sofa throw in V-Ray:
Making-of “Iron Sky” trailer
At the animago CONFERENCE, Head of 3D Tonio Freitag from Pixomondo will talk about the VFX of the trailer for the second part of "Iron Sky". In preparation: Our interview with VFX supervisor Thilo Ewers about the project.
Google Zync Render in Beta
Zync, Google’s cloud rendering service, has entered the beta phase.
V-Ray Showreel 2015
The Chaos Group shows its VFX art - the best shots from Eidos, Blur, Unit Image, Mackevision, Digital Domain, Iloura, Method Studios, Scanline and more...
Slow-mo beetle
CG beetle on approach, breakdown and turntable. The software used was Maya, Mudbox, Houdini, Nuke and V-Ray.
SLiB Metal for V-Ray and Mental Ray
SLiB | Shader with metal materials has now also been released for V-Ray and Mental Ray.
Free Nike Air Shoe Model
Munich CG artist Maciek Ptaszynski is making a 3D model of a Nike Air Max 1 available free as an .obj file.
Congratulations to the DP Anniversary Promotion Winners!
We already began 2015 with a major anniversary, the 100th issue of DP. There was a large gift basket for the occasion, which is now being divided among the winners.
More CG Works from the Kitchen Wizard
In 2014, Cornelius Dämmrich's CG kitchen was among the nominated stills at the animago AWARD. Here are two more submitted works by the C4D artist, plus the Haze making-of from DP.
RebusFarm 2.0 Is Out
RebusFarm has released version 2.0 of its software for the online rendering service. Monitoring of render jobs is now intended to run in real time.
Motiva Exposure Plug-in for V-Ray
The free Motiva plug-in for 3ds Max and V-Ray provides the correct exposure adjustment for video material.
FX Reel by Sébastien Tafani
In it we see work by the French FX artist for Cartier, Kellogg's, and a Lady Gaga-like singer and her music video, among others, as well as several RnD shots.
Free Samsung Smart TV H6240 – in 3D
Unfortunately, of course, only a 3D model of the Samsung TV set. In return, Dimensiva provides the device in four different inch sizes and includes the appropriate V-Ray materials.
GPU vs. CPU Rendering
Boxx Technologies has published a white paper with empirical benchmarks comparing GPU and CPU rendering.
Hidden Render Passes
Render passes that are not part of the standard set are extremely helpful for Nuke compositing. Here it is explained how to create them with V-Ray for Maya.
V-Ray 3.0 for Maya
Chaos Group has released V-Ray 3.0 for Autodesk's Maya: ray tracing in particular is said to work faster, and an improved V-Ray RT Engine has also been added.
Massive 7.0
Massive Software presented version 7 of its Massive crowd and character animation system at Siggraph. Here is an overview of all the features.
V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
V-Ray for Modo and Nuke are in public beta, V-Ray for Katana is already available.
V-Ray for Blender
V-Ray and Blender—a beautiful connection. With a V-Ray Standalone license, you can start rendering in Blender.
V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max
Since yesterday, version 3.0 has been officially released after a lengthy beta. Chaos Group reports innovations in UI, speed and subsurface scattering, among other areas.
V-Ray 2.0 for Rhino Available
Chaos Group announced many improvements to its rendering engine that will make more than just visualizers' hearts beat faster.
V-Ray Feature Films Showreel 2013
Chaos Group has compiled its official feature films showreel for this year with the best work created using V-Ray.
Free 3D Bed
Even cheaper than at Ikea! Rei Studio from Vietnam is making a 3D model of a bed for 3ds Max available free of charge.
V-Ray 3.0 Beta Review
How does version 3 perform in beta? FX artist Hammer Chen tested the beta and wrote down an initial conclusion.
V-Ray 3.0 Beta
A new UI, Progressive Production Rendering, Cross-Application Shader Format—these are the buzzwords of the 3.0 beta. And: more rendering speed.
V-Ray Showreels Teaser 2013
Now there are even teasers for showreels. All right. Here is a brief (!) insight into what 67 companies in 25 countries are doing with V-Ray. All five showreels are expected to be online soon.
Siggraph Video on V-Ray RT
Konstantin Gaytandzhiev of Chaos Group provides an insight into the V-Ray realtime rendering engine on a 5-GPU 3DBOXX 8950 workstation, including integration into the Maya viewport. With a brief (!) outlook on V-Ray 3.0.
V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp in Open Beta
Chaos Group announced a major upgrade intended to simplify and improve workflow, render quality and scene complexity.
Managing VRay Scenes
Lighting TD Damien Bataille's DeeX VRay Arsenal plug-in is intended to simplify and accelerate management of Maya scenes with VRay.
Sun at Last
Since it is showing itself again in Germany today after a long absence: a tool that can make the sun rise in 3ds Max.
New Lighting Tool
HDR Light Studio 4 is available with a live connection to 3ds Max and V-Ray.
Scene Checker for 3ds Max
With Teague Scene Checker for V-Ray, a 3ds Max script by 3D artist Colin Senner, scenes are intended to be checked and information about optimisations provided.
3ds Max: Templates for IES Lights
A 3D artist at Cloo Studio provided a 3ds Max plug-in that supplies templates for various IES lights.
3ds Max: Carpets Made Easy
Austris shows four different approaches for creating realistic-looking 3D carpets with 3ds Max and V-Ray.
RevUp Render Now Supports V-Ray in the Cloud
Cloud-computing company RevUp Render now also supports V-Ray 2.0 in its cloud-rendering service offering.
Direct Rendering with Golaem Crowd 1.5
With the 1.5 update, a crucial feature has been added to the Golaem Crowd plug-in: direct rendering in the Maya render window is now intended to be possible.
Webinar: V-Ray for Softimage
The V-Ray for Softimage webinar by Aleksander Kartsov and Peter Petrov shows the use of both pieces of software on a short commercial and conveys helpful tips and tricks.
Rhino: V-Ray 1.5 Gets New Update 1.50.216
ChaosGroup has provided a free update for V-Ray 1.5 for Rhino. The focus was on fixing bugs.
New Giveaway from Bpositive
This time it consists of specially made 3D designer lamps that Copenhagen design studio Bpositive is offering as a free giveaway to download.
V-Ray for Autodesk 3D Studio Max 2013 Available
Chaos Group released the latest build of V-Ray for 3D Studio Max 2013. Alongside compatibility with the latest version of the 3D software, support for Ornatrix 2.0 and new shading functions for hair and fur within Max 2013 were also implemented.
V-Ray 2.0 Update for Maya
The new V-Ray RT GPU update for Maya comes with many optimizations. The improved performance is evident not only when rendering complex materials.
Golaem Crowd 1.4 Update
The latest Golaem Crowd 1.4 update adds the ability to render with Mental Ray as well as the Geometry Instancing feature.
V-Ray for Softimage Available
The time has come – the V-Ray renderer from Chaosgroup is now also available for Autodesk Softimage.
Image-Based Lighting
In this tutorial, Chaosgroup uses a snowboard to show how to use the Dome Light function in V-Ray for Rhino.
V-Ray for Softimage Public Beta Program
V-Ray from Chaos Group will soon also support Autodesk’s Softimage software. Registered users of the Chaos Group website can now test the beta version for two months.
Amazing Fluids
Chaos Software’s grid-based Phoenix Fluid Dynamics simulator and renderer is demonstrated in a new Michael McCarty video series.
V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Enters Beta
While 3ds Max has already been supplied with the new version of V-Ray, Maya users were left out in the cold until now. But the beta phase has started, and anyone who wants to test the high-end renderer can now do so as a Maya user.
Chaos Group at FMX for the Second Time
Together with partners weltenbauer and Mackevision, Chaos Group presents its new product portfolio at FMX 2010 in Stuttgart.
animago CONFERENCE: Masterclass with Rusko Ruskov
Chaos Group’s Ruskov presents a masterclass on “V-Ray for Maya Advanced Techniques and Tips.”
Chaos Group Sponsors animago 2009
Chaos Group, a provider of advanced rendering solutions for architecture, VFX, film, media, entertainment, automotive design, and television, is supporting animago 2009.
dc days: Michl Dacher Offers Two Introductory Seminars
The seminars cover “Integrating 3D Architectural Visualisations with Photoshop” and “Photorealistic Visualisation in 3ds Max and V-Ray.”
dc days: Michl Dacher Offers Two Introductory Seminars
The seminars cover “Integrating 3D Architectural Visualizations with Photoshop” and “Photorealistic Visualization in 3ds Max and V-Ray.”
weltenbauer. 3ds Max 2009 Training Including NodeJoe
Weltenbauer gets you up to speed with 3ds Max Design 2009. Participants learn how to create high-quality renderings and use the new light analysis tool and IES lights. And of course everything about the new ProMaterials, importing from Revit and Inventor, or "your" CAD package. And naturally plenty of tips and tricks for working more effectively with 3ds Max.
Weltenbauer works only with small groups. Everyone has their own practice computer, guaranteeing that participants make progress with 3ds Max. A full commercial version of the NodeJoe plug-in (worth 289 euros) is included, allowing materials to be assigned and adjusted more quickly.
Weltenbauer Information Day
Architects, designers and photographers learn more about fast, photorealistic rendering with VRay and get to know the maxzoom HDRI DVDs. Weltenbauer also shows how to finalise renderings more quickly with Combustion 2008. Film, TV and video studios get to know Maya better, especially the new Muscle Extension. Pixar's RenderMan 3D Realtime is also shown, developers gain an insight into Quest3D 4.0 (beta version) and get to know Unity 3D – for the web and game development on Wii, PC or Mac.
Location: FH Wiesbaden, Kurt-Schumacher-Ring 18 (2nd Ring), Building C (opposite the cafeteria), Room 102
SIGGRAPH: V-Ray 1.5 Renders More Beautifully
The latest release now requires a dongle, but also brings many new functions
SIGGRAPH: New Version of V-Ray Renderer
V-Ray 1.5 for 3ds Max adds features including a new Sun and Sky lighting system