Chaos Group unveils V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp

Try this major update to the renderer while it's in open beta and use $800 of software free for three months.

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Tutorial: Post-production in 3ds Max and Photoshop

Master core post-production skills to improve your interior renders with Jamie Cardoso's exclusive tutorial.

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 2.4 for 3ds Max

Update to renderer adds support for Alembic geometry, instancing within V-Ray RT, Hair Farm hair.

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

e-on software releases Carbon Scatter 2

Updated: New trial version available of the vegetation instancing plugin for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D.

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Tutorials: better lighting effects in 3ds Max

Read Jamie Cardoso's guides to creating custom IES light webs and fixing glitches with self-illumination.

Thursday, December 27th, 2012

Tutorials: explore Mudbox's texturing capabilities

See how to use it with Maya with Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse and with 3ds Max by Pixel 23's Leandré Hounnake.

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Chaos Group to preview V-Ray 3.0 at Siggraph Asia

Features lined up for future releases include Alembic and deep image support, metaballs, new materials.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Gnomon ships innovative environment sculpting DVD

Check out David Lesperance's Environment Production Workflow: Tips, Tricks and Concepts today.

Monday, September 17th, 2012

PipelineFX ships Qube! 6.4

Renderfarm management system gets new reporting and admin tools, plus MobileView smartphone app.

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Nuke and Katana

Details to follow at Siggraph, along with news of Alembic and deep image support in V-Ray for 3ds Max.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

RevUp Render starts V-Ray cloud rendering service

Render 3ds Max or Maya scenes in a fraction of the time taken on your desktop via this new online service.

Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Speed up your V-Ray renders by up to 30%

But only if you're running on an Intel x64 CPU, thanks to Chaos Group's neat new VRayEmbree helper tool.

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Chaos Group celebrates ten years of V-Ray

Developer marks the renderer's first decade with special anniversary website and new online giveaways.

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012