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

Monday, September 17th, 2012

Leading renderer gets not one demo reel but (count 'em) five. And they're all teeth-grindingly gorgeous.

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Updated with neat new demo video: sub-$1,000 crowd simulator now batch renders jobs much faster.

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

See Hollywood VFX stars swap GI for guns in this mini heist movie created for V-Ray's tenth birthday.

Monday, August 13th, 2012

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

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Crowd simulator now shows your actors directly within the Maya render window, rather than baking geometry.

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

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

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

'Archetype' VFX Breakdown dissects a real shot from Aaron Sims' gritty science-fiction short stage by stage.

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

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

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Render Blender scenes in Next Limit's physically based renderer with this new .mxs file exporter.

Friday, May 25th, 2012

New DVD sees Pixar Lighting TD Jeremy Vickery reveal the principles behind Efficient Cinematic Lighting.

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Promising new fur-and-feathers generation plugin adds support for the Arnold and V-Ray renderers.

Thursday, April 26th, 2012