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Unreal Material Support Brings Academy Award-Winning Ray Tracing to Full User Base; Free for Current Users LOS ANGELES, Calif. – May 30, 2019 – Today, Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 1, bringing new capabilities to the only production rendering workflow designed for real-time. With new support for native Unreal materials, designers can now ray trace every part of their scene from their existing Unreal projects. Viewport rendering has also been added, making it easier than ever to produce photorealistic beauty shots and reference checks from within Unreal. “As the need to create custom applications and configurators continues to grow, the design industry needs more power in one place,” said Simeon Balabanov, V-Ray for Unreal Product Manager. “With support for native Unreal materials, V-Ray for Unreal can offer 100 percent ray traced accuracy to all workflows, so V-Ray quality is always available, no matter where your project starts.” Unreal Materials With V-Ray for Unreal, Unreal materials are automatically converted into V-Ray equivalents at render time, allowing all projects to use V-Ray from the Unreal Editor. Now, thousands of new users can access V-Ray quality and light baking without adjusting their established workflow, blending the best of real-time and ray tracing into a single pipeline. Viewport Rendering Users can now render interactively as they iterate, seeing the results of changes to lights and materials directly in the Unreal viewport. As looks develop, users can activate V-Ray to produce beauty shots or cycle through options at the highest fidelity possible. Physically based lighting also allows V-Ray for Unreal to act as a reference tool, providing designers with the most realistic view of how their assets will look in a real-world situation. A Better Bridge With new 1:1 support for Datasmith material translations, Update 1 makes it possible for CAD designers to utilize the full power of V-Ray technology and its physically based materials, giving them a ground truth representation they can rely on. Speed and Memory Optimizations Numerous optimizations have been added across the board, including better memory usage around large data sets and scenes with millions of polygons. Light baking is also now up to 60 percent faster without sacrificing quality. To see V-Ray for Unreal’s full capabilities, please visit the product page. Pricing/Availability V-Ray for Unreal Update 1 is free and available now to current customers. Update 1 also adds support for Unreal Engine 4.22. New seats can be purchased by a variety of methods including monthly ($80), annual ($470) and education pricing, which comes as a flat $99 fee for students, educators and universities. Interested parties can also visit the website for a free starter’s guide. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com LOS ANGELES, Calif. – May 23, 2019 – Every Game of Thrones fan knows, you don’t skip the credits. They are your first clue into where the story is going. But after seven seasons, the story had brought everyone to Westeros, creating a new challenge for artists used to making sense of the sprawl. With less distance, the show would be even more centered on relationships, giving Elastic a chance to re-shape their iconic credits around the worlds within. To Elastic, this meant journeying inside some of Westeros’ most famous landmarks, fulfilling a brief that put everything on the table, as long as the visual language and clockwork shots remained intact. “When we heard that, our brains went into overdrive,” said Kirk Shintani, Art Director and Head of 3D at Elastic. “There have been so many things we wanted to update and change since season one, but we never had the time. Once we knew we were going inside the buildings, we suddenly had no choice. We had to start from scratch and all of our old ideas came tumbling out.” Going into the locations posed a new set of questions for the artists, who needed the audience to immediately understand where they were. Beginning and end points, unique characteristics and the way rooms flowed together were all up for discussion. Elastic’s old rules around depth of field and camera movement also had to be thrown out. What had worked on the exteriors no longer applied, leaving the team questioning how to include the right details at the right scale. “We wanted to avoid hiding the transitions in any way and keep the moves seamless, so when you transition from a super wide into a tight interior, it would feel as claustrophobic as possible,” said Shintani. “Asset sizing played a huge role in this. If we were to make the entire Red Keep a foot tall, then the Iron Throne would be the size of a pea. So we worked backwards from our smallest interior element and set exterior scale from that.” Behind the scenes Elastic used V-Ray for Maya to render the animations, which continued to adapt over the course of the season to reflect changes in the narrative. The new structures also gave Elastic license to do something they’d wanted to do for a long time: add more details. All of which were refined with the help of V-Ray Next’s IPR system. “Creative is king at Elastic, so we always want to keep pushing and tweaking until we get the best result possible,” said Shintani. “Interactive rendering with V-Ray IPR is really fast, so we were able to dial things in quickly and just keep tweaking. We probably did about 3-4x more work in season eight than we did in season one, but we were able to do it in the same amount of time, with a ton more detail. V-Ray was essential in making this happen.” White Walkers With the White Walkers on the move, showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff wanted to amp up the tension with a weekly reminder of their progress. To accomplish this, Elastic developed a concept from season one where land pieces changed as power shifted throughout the kingdom, similar to a Risk board. Adapted to the White Walkers, the path became a series of icy blue tiles that would flip each week on their way to Winterfell. But since the Westeros map is spherical, the implementation of the tiles proved more challenging than Elastic originally thought. The new world now included dozens of layers of wood, making the process of laying out each tile much more involved. Looking for a tactile quality, the team used V-Ray for look development before deciding on glass with a white wood base. Once selected, V-Ray Proxies were applied to optimize the rendering, bringing more speed to the elaborate five-month project. Winterfell Unlike past iterations, Elastic had to account for both the structure and the area around Winterfell, which needed to be played up to show Walkers in the distance. The famous Godswood Tree would also be redesigned with more scale and density. In a nod to past seasons, Elastic had the camera sweep around the tree, providing a moment of familiarity before they shattered expectations and took fans inside. Lighting The Great Hall and Crypt proved difficult at first, as the team’s old tricks didn’t work on interiors. The mission quickly became keeping the light alive, as the team learned how light interactions between the window cutouts, gaps and gears would help it move throughout the shots. Using V-Ray light fog, the artists made the environmental elements work to their advantage, ensuring that the shafts of light would naturally react to the motion of the gears and wood, even in dark spots like the Crypt. King’s Landing Besides being the largest asset in Westeros, King’s Landing would also undergo the most change in season eight, requiring a full redesign from the ground up. With new elements like The West Gate and Throne Room coming in, the previous design needed more detail and scope to support a flight from the outside in. Instead of building both exterior and interior models, Elastic put everything into one asset – so as the camera flies down into the spiral staircase, there would be a perfect, unbroken transition from the exterior to the Skull Room. The team worked with the showrunners to include specific details, like a crossbow pointed at a dragon skull and the spiral staircase itself, only to find out later that these were actually Easter eggs that foreshadowed future events. “Dan, David and Greg [Spence] gave us just enough to get it right, so just like the fans, we could have our own aha! moments down the road,” said Shintani. When it came to the finale, Elastic got a bit more. Knowing that King’s Landing would be leveled in episode five, showrunners asked Elastic to reflect the devastation in the credits, giving them just enough concept art to get the gears turning. “We were all a little bit hesitant to look at it, since we didn't want to spoil it for ourselves! Once we started, Dan and David kept telling us to destroy more, so we just kept breaking everything,” said Shintani. “We really wanted the idea of the mechanical underpinnings to come through, so if you look back at any of the destruction, you'll notice that the parts are still moving and clicking in place, as if something inside has broken. This way the locations don’t feel static or like a pile of parts. They are still part of a larger structure within.” V-Ray’s speed came through for them again, handling all of the geometry and textures so they could continue to test ideas before showing them to the wider Game of Thrones team. “We’d create something and Dan and David would say keep going,” said Shintani. “IPR and the ability to iterate quickly allowed our team to keep refining on schedule until we got it just right. By the end of production we were up to 2 million frames, with some scenes coming in at almost 100 million polygons. And V-Ray continued to come through for us, just like it always has. When we first fired it up for season one, it was part of what gave the credits their unique look. And now here we are, almost ten years later, still creating CG together. It’s been a wild ride.” To learn more, tune into a special CG Garage episode with Kirk Shintani on the history of the Game of Thrones credits, from season one to season eight. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. About Elastic Elastic is a group of filmmakers whose collective voice utilizes a cross-section of visual mediums. Launched in 2008 by the founders of Rock Paper Scissors and VFX studio a52, Elastic produces some of the most captivating and innovative work in entertainment and advertising. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com Emerging 3D Visualization Conference Returns May 16-18; Google, Zaha Hadid Architects and Porsche Among Presenters SOFIA, Bulgaria – April 17, 2019 – This May, Total Chaos returns to Bulgaria with over 60 new ways to inspire the creative community. Created as a way to snapshot the current state of computer graphics, Total Chaos has broadened its scope with new speakers and masterclasses, targeting every industry that uses 3D. Now in its second year, Total Chaos provides a shared space for 3D artists and developers to connect and grow, as they explore how topics like AI, real-time ray tracing, light fields and collaborative VR will continue to change professional workflows. Using the three tracks (Art, Craft, Code), attendees can build schedules based on their interests or industry, as they take in the cutting edge of visualization design. The conference begins with a full day of Masterclasses on May 16. Delivered by top 3D professionals, the classes will provide in-depth training on topics like parametric design for architecture, product and automotive design, visual effects for large-scale production pipelines and cinematic approaches to architectural visualization. Total Chaos follows on May 17-18 with the three parallel tracks covering the latest projects, technology and R&D guiding 3D workflows. Architecture For architecture fans, Total Chaos will be a deep dive into the complementary worlds of design and visualization. World-renowned architecture firms like Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners, KPF, Kengo Kuma & Associates, WeWork, Woods Bagot and Gensler will be on hand to share their approaches to 3D visualization and its importance throughout the design process. While visualization houses like Beauty and The Bit, Factory Fifteen and Slashcube will explain why V-Ray and Corona are the engines behind their work. VFX The blockbuster visual effects behind Captain Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War and more will be discussed by a who’s who of VFX studios including Industrial Light & Magic, Ingenuity Studios and Digital Domain. Attendees can also get one of the first behind-the-scenes looks at Hellboy, whose opening shots and various creature designs were brought to life by local Bulgarian studios Nu Boyana FX and Worldwide FX. Advertising Method Studios has been taking the film-centric work of digital doubles into advertising. Method Studios’ CG Supervisor Lee Carlton will share how his team worked around the inherent difficulties of 3D scanning and capturing a toddler on set, achieving a new milestone in the creation of digital humans with one of the youngest real-world references to date. Ioanna Ivanova, a rising talent at London’s INK, will also chart her journey into creating advertising content for high-profile automotive clients like Audi, Honda and Aston Martin. Automotive The ultra-secretive world of car design will be revealed with multiple presentations from Volvo and Porsche, including how GPU rendering and VRscans are not only informing the process, but helping companies create photorealistic graphics for the LA Motor Show. Games Blur Studio is set to discuss their world-famous game cinematics, as well as their hit Netflix series Love, Death & Robots, a stunning NSFW animation anthology. Ubisoft’s open world techniques will also be examined, as they explain how they built more credibility into the environments of Assassin's Creed Origins and its mythological DLC, The Curse of the Pharaohs. Product Design Jan Kokol, Design Consultant for the world’s biggest crystal producer Swarovski, will reveal his approach to overcoming the complex challenges of jewelry design, using a custom workflow that combines Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray Next, VRscans and Ennoble, a crystal and gemstone design plugin he co-developed at Swarovski. OTTO, one of Europe’s largest e-commerce companies, will also discuss how they are changing their hugely successful home and living department with a fully digital approach and CGI. Technology From Paul Debevec, Senior Scientist at Google VR, to Stephen Parker, CTO of Professional Graphics at NVIDIA, Total Chaos tech talks will contain some of the top researchers and computer graphics luminaries in the world. Startups like Visual Vocal and Promethean AI will also offer their own exciting takes on the future, showing how new tech and Chaos Group products are helping artists and companies shape the worlds of tomorrow. For the full lineup, please visit: the Total Chaos event page. Pricing/Availability Total Chaos tickets are available now and can be purchased on the event page in either Student, Professional or Masterclass form. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Production Studio Explores Different Animation Styles with Help of V-Ray Renderer; New Anthology Now on Netflix LOS ANGELES, Calif. – March 18, 2019 – There have always been blips of mature content on the animation spectrum, but never anything like Love, Death & Robots. Released last weekend, this new anthology kicks open the doors for adult-oriented content in the medium, giving a generation of fans raised on Liquid Television a way to explore the many sides of human nature in the most visceral way possible. The brainchild of Tim Miller and David Fincher, Love, Death & Robots weaves the provocative world of ‘70s comic books into 18 short stories that run the gamut from sci-fi to horror. In this world, viewers go from “sentient dairy products” to “werewolf soldiers” pretty quick, which inspired Miller’s Blur Studio to call on friends and rivals to bring in a little stylistic diversity. “When we put out the call to the other studios, people went wild,” said Jerome ‘Jed’ Denjean, Head of CG at Blur and VFX Supervisor for Love, Death & Robots. “We’ve been competing against some of these companies for years and admire them greatly. It was thrilling to bring everyone together and let them apply their unique visions to these shorts. It was here where all the creative freedom really paid off.” Blur not only led the project, they contributed three shorts of their own. Seeing this as a chance to flex their creative muscles, Blur built on the hyper-realistic game cinematic style they are known for, and expanded into a more hand-painted, 2D-esque version of 3D. Behind every experiment was V-Ray, the Academy Award-winning renderer that’s been guiding Blur’s pipeline since 2009. “V-Ray is so versatile and dependable that we couldn’t imagine not using it on these shorts, which is pretty amazing when you see how different they all look,” said Denjean. “We’ve always thought that animation audiences deserved more mature storylines, and now we’re finally at a place where we have the freedom and technology to give them what they want.” Sonnie’s Edge Blur’s first short is the first point of contact viewers have with Love, Death & Robots. A cyberpunk’s delight, Sonnie’s Edge represents a bleak, futuristic version of London teeming with violence and grime. Our heroine is a fighter in the “beastie” world, where people telepathically tap into the body of a vicious creature to do battle with another. Director Dave Wilson wanted to create a rich, neon-colored culture that would balance the tone of the short and the rundown structures it takes place in. Here, cinematic digital humans would mix with their surroundings in a highly stylized, photorealistic way. To achieve this, the artists applied V-Ray to nearly every part of the creative process, from look dev and compositing to the final animated frames. “V-Ray helped us add depth and atmosphere into sequences at speeds we'd only dreamt of before; not to mention, gave us full control over all the unique lighting in our scenes,” said Chris Bedrosian, CG Supervisor on Sonnie’s Edge. “During the animation phase, V-Ray's progressive renderer provided rapid feedback that our animators then used to see how the animation would work within the scene’s anticipated lighting. It was really helpful.” Progressive rendering and careful collaboration between the lighting and animation departments proved important, as it allowed the team to visualize performances long before wholesale rendering began, with a level of fidelity that went far beyond the traditional playblast. These quick and detailed progressive renders also afforded the lighting team an opportunity to anticipate and respond to character lighting challenges well before they were under the pressure of looming deadlines, ensuring that much of the show was 'lit' and rendered before the full lighting/compositing teams went to work. Suits Suits, on the other hand, provided a different challenge as it was a completely new style for Blur. “Suits is filled with a lot of hand-painted textures and a language that’s closer to 2D,” said Denjean. “Tim always wanted us to try our hands on something lighter than what our clients usually ask for, so this was a great opportunity to widen our range and learn some new techniques.” But as Blur went to work portraying the story of a community of farmers going to battle with aliens using homemade mechs, they ran into a challenge. “Chasing a non-photoreal illustrated look is harder than it seems, since you have to break the reality of lights,” said Gabe Askew, Scene Assembly Lead on Suits. “For example, we wanted rim lights to stay consistent in both placement and size without getting shadowed by another object. We relied on V-Ray’s render elements support again to do this. Things like normals passes, Cryptomattes, extra tex passes, etc. all went into building a stylized look, which gave our compositors the controls illustrators dream of.” Shape-Shifters Of all the creature effects Blur submitted to Love, Death & Robots, Shape-Shifters’ werewolf Marines might be the most impressive. Like most werewolf stories, Shape-Shifters incorporates a human and wolf angle, with both states being portrayed in full 3D. “The goal was to be as photorealistic as possible. Since everything was in 3D, we also knew that photorealism had to extend across the entire frame, so we built as much detail into our environments as possible,” said Darren Butler, CG Supervisor on Shape-Shifters. With V-Ray Proxies, the team could throw billions of polygons into a scene to attain layer after layer of geometric detail. The Military Bunker scene alone had over 150 proxies, ranging from a chain link fence to trees and pebbles. “No details were spared and V-Ray shredded through those scenes at calculation time,” said Butler. “V-Ray Volume Grids gave us the flexibility and ease of rendering the atmospherics in the shots with accurate shadowing, lighting, and camera blur. Once we defined the look for one or two shots, we simply dropped them into the scene and hit render with great results, and little to no tweaking per shot.” As the story builds, a werewolf dies, leading the hero to engage in a revenge quest against an enemy (werewolf) combatant. This culminates in Blur’s bloodiest Love, Death & Robots moment, as the full power of their pipeline helps the photoreal flesh and fur fly. More on CG Garage To celebrate the release of Love, Death & Robots, Chaos Group’s CG Garage has recorded a special episode with Jerome Denjean, covering everything from his own creative history to how the project came together. A future podcast with Tim Miller is also in the works. Jed’s podcast is available now. Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots is streaming now. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. About Blur Studio Los Angeles-based Blur Studio is an award-winning content production company with a focus on story-driven animation and visual effects. Owned by “Deadpool” director Tim Miller, Blur creates blockbuster film VFX, CG game cinematics, location-based entertainment experiences and television series content. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Photoreal Renderer Becomes Project Control Center, Bringing New Abilities to Rhino and Grasshopper LOS ANGELES, Calif. – March 7, 2019 – Today, Chaos Group introduces V-Ray Next for Rhino, the first smart renderer made for designers. Tailored tools have expanded the core capabilities of Rhino and Grasshopper, linking photorealistic rendering, scene intelligence and asset management into a powerful new workflow that centralizes the design/visualization experience. “V-Ray Next for Rhino turns four years of R&D into a mechanism of change, fixing issues that used to cost designers a lot of time and energy,” said Konstantin Gaytandzhiev, Product Specialist for Rhino at Chaos Group. “As we continue to roll out new features, we’ll continue this journey, making V-Ray Next faster, smarter and more in tune with how people actually want to work.” Render Faster V-Ray Next is faster everywhere you look. Thanks to the optimized materials and overall performance gains in V-Ray Next, rendering speeds are now up to 50 percent faster than before. Improvements to GPU rendering offer another 200 percent, further extended through V-Ray Scene Intelligence, which can show specific improvements up to 7x. Render Smarter V-Ray Scene Intelligence, introduced in V-Ray Next, automatically analyzes a 3D scene at the start of a render to optimize some of the most common decisions a designer will make. For instance, the new Adaptive Dome Light (ADL) now offers more accurate, image-based environment lighting that’s up to 7x faster. This is especially helpful for interiors, where it removes the need to add separate light portals at windows and openings. V-Ray Scene Intelligence has also improved the V-Ray camera, which can now set exposure and white balance automatically, allowing for picture-perfect renders every time. No-input denoising is also available through the new NVIDIA AI denoiser, which eliminates image noise almost instantly, giving an immediate sense of lighting. This type of denoising is perfect for interactively fine-tuning the look of a scene. Powerful Asset Management The new asset management system acts as a new project control center, helping designers streamline workflows and coordinate across projects. Now, designers can manage all of their V-Ray scene assets in an intuitive way, using the live preview function to fine-tune the look of lights, textures and materials from a central location. Unparalleled Grasshopper Support V-Ray Next for Rhino launches with the most comprehensive Grasshopper toolset on the market, bringing new abilities to the parametric design tool. With live interactivity, designers can use V-Ray from within Grasshopper to produce stunning visualizations of abstract curves and repeating patterns, without exporting anything back to Rhino. Users can also now animate sunlight, cameras and Grasshopper definitions from the V-Ray timeline. Definitions stay parametric throughout the rendering process, in both Grasshopper and Rhino. Additional Features Include: Enhanced GPU Rendering – Designers can now access the full power of GPU rendering in V-Ray, adding support for bucket rendering, volumetric effects such as smoke and fog and compatibility with VRscans, Chaos Group’s library of physically accurate, scanned materials. More Accurate Viewport Previews – Improved accuracy in the Rhino viewport with enhanced reflections, refractions, bump maps and more. Automated Rendering with V-Ray Batch – With access to V-Ray Swarm, it’s now easier to render snapshots and variations of a project, as well as views from multiple Rhino files. New Lighting Analysis Tool – Visualize a scene’s real-world illumination values (lux) using the new lighting analysis render element. New Scripting Support – Use RhinoScript or Python to automate V-Ray tasks and properties, or access V-Ray capabilities not present in the UI. "V-Ray Next for Rhino is, without a doubt, the most amazing leap forward in the history of V-Ray for Rhino," said Polyhedra co-founders Federico Fernandez and Andrea Montis. "We're finally able to edit everything without relying on other 3D applications or leaving the software. And these speed boosts are making our dreams come true!" For a full list of new features, please visit: chaosgroup.com. Pricing and Availability V-Ray Next for Rhino is available now and is compatible with Rhino 5-6. A full Workstation license is priced at $790, with upgrades available for $395. Annual licenses are available as well for $350 per year. For a free 30-day trial, click here. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Unlimited Rendering Power for 3D Artists and Designers; No Hidden Fees LOS ANGELES, Calif. – February 28, 2019 – Today, Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud, an intuitive new cloud rendering service designed to help artists and designers visualize anything they want, from anywhere. With one click, users can now tap into the unlimited power of the cloud to render immediately, hit deadlines and finish faster than ever before. “Artists love the idea of throwing hundreds of computers at a job but dislike the hidden costs and challenges that come with traditional cloud rendering services,” said Boris Simandoff, Chaos Cloud Director of Engineering at Chaos Group. “Chaos Cloud simplifies this process, reducing it to a single button inside the world’s most popular renderer. With so many artists and designers already using V-Ray, the benefits of the cloud can now be accessed by the widest group possible.” Chaos Cloud is backed by five years of R&D and an extensive beta program that saw users render six million frames and over 500,000 jobs over the course of six months. Thanks to these tests, artists can now easily render an entire animation in the time it takes to render a single frame, without having to track assets, manage licenses or set up virtual machines. Chaos Cloud also removes the need to pack scenes, a laborious process that required artists to manually assemble bitmaps, scripts and plugins every time they wanted to render to the cloud. Now, this all happens automatically. Behind the scenes, smart features are hard at work, removing all the complexity commonly associated with cloud rendering. SmartSync With SmartSync technology, data only needs to be uploaded once to the Chaos Cloud. After that, only the parts of a scene that change will need to be resynced, keeping upload times to the absolute minimum and ensuring quick iterations as you work. SmartVault All data uploaded through Chaos Cloud is stored in its secure SmartVault database for easy recall and additional renders. SmartVault keeps track of asset “fingerprints,” so they never need to be uploaded again – regardless of how they’re named, what scene they’re used in or where they’re stored locally. Live View and Remote Control Since the Chaos Cloud interface is entirely browser-based, artists can also control it from almost any device, including a smartphone. With Live View and Remote Control, users can monitor progress, preview images, pause or even cancel renders from anywhere with an internet connection. While V-Ray rendering is the first offering on the Chaos Cloud, plans are already underway for Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD. In the future, Chaos Cloud will also add compatibility for distributed and GPU rendering, promising even faster speeds in the years to come. "Chaos Cloud is undeniably the best rendering cloud out there,” said Gerardo Capote, beta tester and Lead 3D Artist at Embraer Executive Jets. “With a friendly user interface and unparalleled reliability, it provides peace of mind to any studio when you render on the cloud.” “Chaos Cloud is perfect for time-critical projects and production deadlines,” said Ralf Pohl, beta tester and Senior Keyexpert 3D Visualization & Virtual Reality, Siemens Healthcare GmbH. “It’s very user-friendly and we look forward to integrating it in our render pipeline.” Sign up now for 20 free credits. Pricing and Availability Chaos Cloud is available now and accessible via a button within V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, Cinema 4D, Revit, Modo, Houdini [beta] and SketchUp (Next and 3.6 editions). Unlike some cloud rendering services, pricing for Chaos Cloud is all-inclusive. There are no hidden fees or extra charges for licensing, uploads, downloads, storage or starting your render job immediately. Customers purchase packages of Chaos Cloud credits, which are available with volume discounts. Right now, packages begin at $100 for 100 credits and prices go as low as 55 cents per credit for larger packages. Upon sign-up, every user will get 20 free credits. Since every scene is different, Chaos Group has also compiled a gallery of samples to help see how render times and credit cost vary by scene. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Prague, Los Angeles, Seoul and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Premier Photorealistic Renderer for SketchUp Now Up to 7x Faster with New 3D Scene Intelligence LOS ANGELES, Calif. – February 7, 2019 – Today, Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for SketchUp, boosting the speed and simplicity of SketchUp’s premier renderer. Now, with a few clicks, anyone can create high-quality ray-traced visuals using one of the world’s most widely used design programs. Automatic scene analysis and adaptive lighting join dozens of new features, bringing more performance to the design process. Backed by over four years of R&D, V-Ray Next rapidly accelerates the SketchUp workflow, building massive speed and intelligence gains under the hood, so designers can produce faster, cleaner renders with little to no extra effort. This latest version is also immediately compatible with the new SketchUp 2019, as well as versions 2016-2018. “We are extremely pleased to see that a flagship renderer is available immediately after the launch of SketchUp 2019. The latest release, coupled with V-Ray Next, is a highly compelling solution for designers pursuing striking photorealistic visuals,” comments Jack McCarthy, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Trimble. Render Smarter New V-Ray Scene Intelligence can now automatically analyze a 3D scene at the start of a render, optimizing some of the most common decisions an artist will make. For lighting, the new Adaptive Dome Light (ADL) offers more accurate, image-based environment lighting that’s up to 7x faster. The ADL is exceptionally fast when working with interiors, and removes the need to add Portal Lights at windows and openings. Finding the perfect camera exposure or white balance is no longer an issue. Once a scene loads, Auto White Balance and Exposure return the right settings, making the entire process point-and-shoot simple. A new NVIDIA AI Denoiser has also been embedded, so users get automatic noise removal and clean updates as they work. Render Faster With a 30-50 percent speed increase across the board, and additional increases coming in from the ADL, updated materials and improved GPU rendering, V-Ray Next is now the fastest way to produce a photorealistic image from SketchUp. The GPU renderer is over 200 percent faster alone, accelerating nearly every V-Ray feature including fog and atmospheric effects. Work Faster V-Ray Next is tightly integrated into SketchUp to speed up workflows throughout the program. A new Scene Interaction Tool now provides direct access to any level of the SketchUp hierarchy, so designers can interactively adjust materials and light properties whenever an object is selected. A new V-Ray Toolbar has also been included, providing new access to top tools and simplified UI controls that will make it easier to set up cameras, adjust render settings and manage scenes. The new asset management system will help users find and track V-Ray assets, using a custom library that can be shared across SketchUp projects. Any setting change will also now result in a live preview, helping designers experiment with lights, materials and textures, all in one place. Additional Features Include: New Lighting Analysis Tools - Now easier to visualize a scene’s real-world illumination values in lux or footcandles. New Metalness Material Properties - A new addition to the standard V-Ray Material offers improved compatibility with Substance Designer and PBR materials. Color Correction Curves - Fine-tune texture colors right in SketchUp without heading back to an image editor. Material ID & MultiMatte Render Elements - Render 2D masks of 3D objects for quick fixes in Photoshop and other image editors. Improved V-Ray Scenes and Materials Exchange - Fluid asset transfers from other V-Ray applications (Rhino, Revit and 3ds Max). For a full list of new features, please visit: chaosgroup.com. Pricing and Availability V-Ray Next for SketchUp is available now and is compatible with SketchUp 2016-2019. A full Workstation license is priced at $790, with upgrades available for $395. Annual licenses are available as well for $350 per year. For a free 30-day trial, click here. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com World’s Most Popular Rendering Technology Comes to Unreal, Joining Real-Time and Ray Tracing in a Single Pipeline LOS ANGELES, Calif. – November 8, 2018 – Today, Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal, the fastest way for architecture, automotive and visual effects users to create immersive experiences from their V-Ray content. With V-Ray for Unreal, artists and designers can bring V-Ray scenes from 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino and SketchUp directly into the Unreal Editor easily, without needing to learn a new workflow. Once there, users will have access to the full power of V-Ray Next technology, making the process of creating accurate ray-traced visuals possible directly from Unreal Engine. V-Ray for Unreal consolidates two separate workflows, making it easier to tap into the power of a game engine through a creative process users already know and trust. After designing a scene in V-Ray, V-Ray for Unreal imports every part of the scene file into the Unreal Editor. V-Ray lights and materials are automatically converted into their real-time equivalents and maintain a smart connection to the originals ensuring high-fidelity stills and animations at render time. The official launch will introduce V-Ray Light Baking, a powerful feature that lets users bake V-Ray lights (including IES) directly into Unreal with full GPU acceleration. Unlike other light baking implementations, V-Ray Light Baking maintains V-Ray accuracy, ensuring a lifelike, physically based result for real-time experiences and VR. V-Ray for Unreal will also introduce a new pipeline for CAD designers, who want to utilize the power of V-Ray rendering in their designs. "By combining Datasmith and V-Ray for Unreal, industrial designers can easily add the accuracy of photorealistic ray tracing to their interactive designs without requiring V-Ray in their CAD tool. V-Ray for Unreal Engine unlocks new workflows that will fundamentally change how people visualize and experience their designs," said Ken Pimentel, senior product manager at Epic Games. "Now, all designers can benefit from both real-time interactivity and production-proven ray tracing within the Unreal Editor." Other Features Include: Accurate Lighting – Render your Unreal scenes with physically accurate, ray-traced lighting that matches your designs. Global Illumination – Render realistic bounced light using V-Ray’s Brute Force and proprietary Light Cache global illumination. Rendering Animation – Render sequences from Unreal’s Sequencer to create V-Ray-quality, ray-traced animated cinematics. Deforming objects can also be rendered using V-Ray Proxy objects. GPU+CPU Rendering – Render on all your hardware, with support for CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, or a combination of both. Unreal Foliage Support – Compatible with Unreal's native foliage system for rendering large environments and landscapes. Support for animated foliage coming soon. V-Ray Proxy Support – Load high-resolution assets at render time using memory-efficient V-Ray Proxy objects. Render Elements – Supports a wide range of render elements for better artistic and technical control in compositing. Distributed Rendering – Leverage the power of multiple machines to speed up rendering and light baking. V-Ray for Unreal will be on display next week in the Epic Games booth (A443) at Autodesk University, November 13-15. To schedule a demo at the show, please contact: david.tracy@chaosgroup.com. Pricing and Availability V-Ray for Unreal is available now and compatible with V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino and SketchUp. V-Ray for Unreal currently supports 4.19 - 4.20 with support for 4.21 coming soon. V-Ray for Unreal will be rapidly updated to keep pace with the Unreal Engine, so it will be sold through a subscription that always keeps the user up-to-date. The monthly rate will be $80, while the annual rate will be $470. Chaos Group also offers a flat annual rate ($99) for students, educators and universities. Visit the website for a free starter’s guide. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. About Unreal Engine Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine is a high-performance software development suite that brings real-time, high-fidelity fully interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) platforms. Used by many of the world's leading entertainment software developers and publishers, Unreal Engine is also an integral part of many enterprise sectors. The Unreal Engine team supports and nurtures vertical markets such as automotive, architecture, film, science, aerospace, marketing and education that make use of real-time technology within their processes. Unreal Engine is freely available at unrealengine.com. Follow @UnrealEngine for updates. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Announces Acquisition of V-Ray for Cinema 4D, Plans for Corona for Cinema 4D FRANKFURT, Germany – November 1, 2018 – Today at the Maxon Supermeet 2018 event, Chaos Group announces its plans to officially support the Cinema 4D community with two rendering products: V-Ray for Cinema 4D and Corona for Cinema 4D. Based on V-Ray’s Academy Award-winning ray-tracing technology, the development of V-Ray for Cinema 4D will be focused on powerful production rendering for high-end visual effects and motion graphics. Corona for Cinema 4D will focus on artist-friendly design visualization. Chaos Group has acquired the V-Ray for Cinema 4D product from LAUBlab and starting today, will offer current customers free migration to a new update, V-Ray 3.7 for Cinema 4D. All users who move to the new version will receive a free V-Ray for Cinema 4D license, including all product updates, through January 15, 2020. Moving forward, Chaos Group will be providing all support, sales and product development in-house. “The Cinema 4D community creates amazing work and deserves the best tools available, which makes it incredibly exciting to say that we are going to officially support them with two Chaos Group products,” said Peter Mitev, Chaos Group CEO. “We are looking forward to working closely with the Maxon team and users to address all of their rendering needs.” In addition to ongoing improvements to V-Ray for Cinema 4D, Chaos Group is also releasing the Corona for Cinema 4D beta 2 at Supermeet, with the final product to follow in January 2019. Corona for Cinema 4D has been gaining popularity among design visualization specialists looking to leverage fast and intuitive rendering. Beta users have been especially impressed with its thorough integration, ease of use, fluid interactive rendering and powerful material editing using its own node editor. For more information about Corona for Cinema 4D beta 2, please visit: Render Legion’s blog. “We are pleased that Chaos Group has fully embraced the Cinema 4D ecosystem. The latest version of their rendering technology will be a welcome addition to our community,” said Oliver Meiseburg, Chief Product Officer at Maxon. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Prague, Seoul and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Next-Gen Rendering Technology Now Available for Maya Artists; Faster Speeds and Workflows Through AI, GPU, and Smart Tech LOS ANGELES, Calif. – October 25, 2018 – Today, Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Maya, a new version of its Academy Award-winning renderer that brings the power of scene intelligence, faster production rendering, and streamlined Maya workflows to high-end VFX and animation projects. “V-Ray Next is designed to support Maya artists at every level, providing faster workflows through a new set of features and optimizations,” said Vlado Koylazov, CTO and co-founder at Chaos Group. “Now with better IPR and viewport rendering, artists can concentrate more on their creative ideas and the details that make their scenes and characters come alive.” V-Ray Next for Maya's overall rendering performance is now 25 percent faster on average. As artists work, they’ll find even more speed improvements through scene intelligence, which analyzes and optimizes render calculations automatically with no added input. Scene intelligence has been integrated with new features like the Adaptive Dome Light, helping users render content an additional 2-7x faster depending on the scene. Faster, More Powerful Interactive Rendering V-Ray Next features a dramatically improved IPR that runs directly from the Maya viewport or the V-Ray Frame Buffer, ensuring faster interactive speeds and workflows. In addition to reducing time to first pixel, improved interactive rendering allows for continuous updates while editing or even scrubbing through animations. It’s also now possible to render V-Ray-quality playblasts for animation previz. For faster look development, V-Ray Next for Maya adds a new “Debug” shading mode that allows artists to isolate selected materials, textures, objects and lights to quickly analyze and easily fine-tune specific aspects of their scene. And with the new GPU-accelerated AI Denoiser, noise-free updates are now possible at interactive speeds, providing instant insights into lighting setups. GPU Production Rendering In addition to faster IPR, V-Ray Next for Maya brings a production-ready GPU renderer to professional studios. Built on a new GPU rendering architecture, V-Ray GPU is now 2x faster on average, compared to the previous version. V-Ray GPU Next adds support for fast rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke, fire and fog. And the addition of GPU bucket rendering adds support for faster distributed rendering as well as Cryptomatte output for better control in compositing. Additional New Features in V-Ray Next for Maya Include: Physical Hair Material – Produces realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and includes new glint and glitter controls. Metalness – Adds support to the V-Ray Material for PBR shaders and compatibility with materials from Substance Designer and real-time engines like Unreal and Unity. Toon Shader – New cel shader for non-photorealistic cartoon effects; expanded VRayToon with advanced line controls. V-Ray Layered Texture – Layers textures using blend modes and individual masking controls. Improved Physical Camera – Now with automatic white balance and exposure controls, as well as rolling shutter motion blur. High-Quality Lens Effects – Faster and simpler glare and bloom effects that are ready for compositing. Layered Alembic Workflows – Supports Alembic 1.7 with layering, for faster, more efficient handling and updating of Alembic data. V-Ray Cloud Support – Now in open beta. Render scenes directly to the cloud at the push of a button. For a full feature tour, please visit the V-Ray Next for Maya product page. Pricing and Availability V-Ray Next for Maya is available now for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. A full Workstation license is priced at $1,040, with upgrades available for $420. V-Ray Next for Maya also introduces a subscription option, priced at $470 (annual) and $80 (monthly). For full pricing information, including additional render nodes, please visit the product page. About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com Project Lavina Demonstrates Photorealistic Computer Graphics Rendering at up to 90 Frames Per Second on New NVIDIA Turing-based Quadro RTX GPUs SIGGRAPH 2018, VANCOUVER, Canada – August 13, 2018 – Today, Chaos Group gives the world its first look at Project Lavina, a groundbreaking new technology designed for photorealistic real-time ray tracing – the Holy Grail of computer graphics. By leveraging the dedicated RT Core within NVIDIA’s Turing-based Quadro RTX GPUs, Project Lavina fundamentally changes the direction of computer graphics, introducing a new level of visual quality for real-time games, VR, and 3D visualization. Project Lavina, named after the Bulgarian word for “avalanche,” debuted as a SIGGRAPH tech demo, depicting a massive 3D forest and several architectural visualizations running at 24-30 frames per second (FPS) in standard HD resolution. Rather than using game engine shortcuts like rasterized graphics and a reduced level of detail, each scene features live ray tracing for truly interactive photorealism. Lavina is able to handle massive scenes at real-time speeds – over 300 billion triangles in one case – without any loss in detail. “We’ve been developing ray tracing technology for 20 years, and this is one of the biggest breakthroughs we’ve ever made,” said Vlado Koylazov, co-founder and CTO at Chaos Group. “Real-time and ray tracing coming together is the beginning of something big.” "We are thrilled to see how well Project Lavina takes advantage of the RTX stack debuting on our new Quadro RTX line," said Bob Pette, vice president of Professional Graphics, NVIDIA. "True real-time ray tracing is our goal with RTX, and it’s great to see a market leader like Chaos Group achieve it with us." The SIGGRAPH tech demo uses 3D scenes exported from V-Ray-enabled applications directly in Lavina. Unlike a traditional game engine which requires assets to be rebuilt and specially optimized, Lavina dramatically simplifies this process with direct compatibility and translation of V-Ray assets. Upon loading the scene, the user can explore the environment exactly as they would in a game engine, and experience physically accurate lighting, reflections and global illumination. This is Chaos Group’s second real-time announcement in the last year, following the beta release of V-Ray for Unreal. Seeing a growing demand for real-time applications, Chaos Group has developed a way to tie ray tracing to both kinds of workflows, upping the fidelity of this emerging medium. Soon, users will be able to apply the most realistic style of rendering to every type of interactive project, including 3D configurators, virtual productions and VR, using the toolset they like best. “This breakthrough was made possible by partnering with NVIDIA, whose Quadro RTX GPUs helped unlock the next level of real-time experiences,” said Peter Mitev, CEO of Chaos Group. “From here, Project Lavina’s mission will be to focus on pushing the quality and speed of real-time ray tracing.” About Chaos Group Chaos Group is a worldwide leader in computer graphics technology, helping artists and designers create photorealistic imagery and animation for architecture, design, and visual effects. Chaos Group’s award-winning physically-based rendering and simulation software is used daily by top design studios, architectural firms, advertising agencies, and visual effects companies around the globe. Today, the company's research and development in ray-traced rendering, cloud computing and real-time ray tracing is shaping the future of creative storytelling and digital design. Founded in 1997, Chaos Group is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Tokyo. For more information, visit: chaosgroup.com. Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com World’s Simplest Cloud Rendering Service Leverages Google Cloud for Ultra-Fast Renders; Open Beta Includes Free Credits Until Launch SIGGRAPH 2018, VANCOUVER, Canada – August 13, 2018 – Today, Chaos Group releases the open beta for V-Ray Cloud, a push-button cloud rendering service for artists and designers running on Google Cloud Platform. V-Ray Cloud can turn a workstation into a supercomputer, unlocking the unlimited power of the cloud to help users hit deadlines and render faster than ever before. V-Ray Cloud will be free to use throughout the beta. V-Ray Cloud removes the hardware barriers that keep most cloud rendering users at bay, simplifying the process for the everyday artist. Soon, with a click of a button, users will be able to render an entire animation in the time it takes to render a single frame, without having to track assets, juggle licenses or set up virtual machines. V-Ray Cloud will also be integrated into all V-Ray products, bringing a rapid speed boost to artists and designers in a pinch. “V-Ray Cloud will be there whenever you need it, as a natural extension to your workflow,” said Boris Simandoff, V-Ray Cloud Director of Engineering at Chaos Group. “As needs arise, just submit a job and we’ll do the rest. It’s really simple.” V-Ray Cloud Features: V-Ray Cloud is now open to all beta testers. Apply now to try free cloud rendering for a limited time. Chaos Group will be demoing V-Ray Cloud at SIGGRAPH 2018 in the Google booth (#1423) on August 14 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on August 16 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. To see a demo or schedule a meeting with Chaos Group at the show, please contact: david.tracy@chaosgroup.com Press Contacts: Chaos Group David Tracy, david.tracy@chaosgroup.com www.chaosgroup.com Liaison Inc. Colin McLaughlin, (503) 796-9822, colin@liaisonpr.com www.liaisonpr.com
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V-Ray, 3B grafik uygulamaları için Chaos Group Ltd. tarafından geliştirilmiş, günümüzde üretim için söz konusu en yüksek kalitedeki render araçlarından biridir. V-Ray'in en yaygın kullanıldığı alan mimari görselleştirmelerdir. Fiziksel tabanlı işleme ve simülasyon yazılımı V-Ray, günlük olarak dünyanın en önde gelen tasarım stüdyoları, mimari firmalar, reklam ajansları ve görsel efekt şirketleri tarafından kullanılır. V-Ray başta Autodesk 3ds Max olmak üzere Autodesk VIZ, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros, Maxon Cinema 4D, Sketchup, Softimage XSI ve Caligari trueSpace gibi çok sayıda 3D grafik uygulamasına destek verir. Ürünler: Chaos Group Hakkında 1997 yılında 3B tasarım ve animasyon hizmetleri vermek üzere Bulgaristan'da kurulan Chaos Group'un üyeleri bu alanda 5 yıl kadar çalıştıktan sonra görselleştirme projeleri için yeni bir render motoruna gereksinim duymuşlar ve Chaos Group'un ana programcıları Vladimir Koylazov ve Peter Mitev V-Ray üzerinde çalışmaya başlamışlardır. V-Ray, 3ds Max ile iyi bir bütünlük sağlamış ve piyasaya sürülmesinin ardından kısa sürede yaygın hale gelmiştir Bugün, şirketin araştırma ve geliştirmeleri; bulut oluşturma, malzeme tarama ve sanal gerçekliğin geleceği şekillendiriyo