V-Ray for 3ds Max ARTICLES

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DBOX's Keith Bomely on Wild 200 East 59th Marketing Campaign

Zoo York: Selling spacious apartments with the world's biggest animals.

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Visual State unites V-Ray Next and VRscans for Jaguar project

Chaos Group’s next-gen tech helps creative studio create eye-popping renders.

Portraying Leaves with V-Ray for 3ds Max

With endless iterations and unique properties, the natural world is one of the most difficult subjects to emulate in the realm of 3D imagery.

Total Chaos: Watch the Keynote Now!

Vlado officially launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max — plus speeches from IKEA, Nvidia, and Google

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Getting a cinematic look with V-Ray GPU Next & volumetrics

Tomasz Wyszolmirski from Dabarti Studio shares some top volume rendering techniques using V-Ray Next.

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Set Visions: From Photography to V-Ray

Is it real, or is it CGI? Meet Set Visions — the multifaceted company visualizing everything plus the kitchen sink

Creating Rugs with V-Ray for 3ds Max

TILTPIXEL Partner and artist - Ramy Hanna - explores the creation of realistic 3D rugs in his latest V-Ray for 3ds Max tutorial.

How to set up Lighting Analysis in V-Ray Next

Find out how to analyze and measure the light levels in your 3D scene using the new Lighting Analysis tools in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.

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Next Level GPU Rendering in V-Ray Next

Learn all about the new production-ready features and improvements coming to V-Ray GPU in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.

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Putting the CGI in IKEA: How V-Ray Helps Visualize Perfect Homes

We take a trip to the Swedish furniture company’s headquarters to find out how it has embraced cutting-edge tech to create imagery and videos.

Vlado — V-Ray Next

Chris spends some time with Vlado getting the lowdown on V-Ray Next

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10 Reasons to Come to Total Chaos

This May, we're putting on the greatest rendering event in the known universe. Here’s why you need to be there.

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V-Ray Next: The science behind the new hair shader

A deeper look at the new hair shader in V-Ray next. It describes how to understand the shader in a more physiological way, then takes you through the steps of setting one up for Look development including using V-Ray GPU in IPR rendering.

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Neoscape goes 4K stereo for Ba Dai Tou

The idea of producing a 4K, stereoscopic arch viz film against a tight deadline would be enough to send most arch viz companies running to the hills. Here’s how Neoscape did it – with a little help from V-Ray.

V-Ray Next: Switching the camera from manual to automatic

The new automatic exposure and white balance settings in V-Ray next not only make the rendering process simpler and faster, but they also balance your renderings for both speed and quality.

V-Ray Next: Experiments with the NVIDIA Optix Denoiser

Noise is a common issue with rendering, usually solved by longer rendering. Another solution is denoising. Using NVIDIA's OptiX denoising algorithm, V-Ray experiments with real time denoising based on deep learning.

V-Ray Next: Smarter rendering with the New Adaptive Dome Light

A new smarter use of Image Based Lighting (IBL) through the V-Ray Dome Light, which is smarter and faster especially for interior scenes.

Corey Harper & Ramy Hanna — Tiltpixel

How the latest tech is helping Tiltpixel create incredible architectural images and movies

Manuel Carrasco, Ruairi Robinson, David Levy, Ryan Woodward — THU 2017

Four exceptional film and game artists talk about saving animals, short films – and responding to pressure.

Kevin Gøhler and Pedro Fernandes — THU 2017

How to run a successful YouTube channel, and a deep dive into the theory of arch viz.

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Brick Visual talks Arch Viz and VR

Arch viz master, app developer, VR pioneer… Is there anything Brick Visual can’t do?

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Ciro Sannino Teaches V-Ray

Discover how this tutor's approach to V-Ray for 3ds Max has made him a star of arch viz.

Nimrod Friedmann & Carlie Pratt — Cl3ver

Presenting the people behind this game-changing browser-based renderer.

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Screen Scene goes Invisible with V-Ray on Black Sails

Rebuilding 18th-century Philadelphia for Starz piratical TV series.