Vray Bonus Tool

Released yesterday on the forum ChaosGroup, Vlado grouped the tools V-ray left outside the official release.

On the program:

VrayFur Styler
VrayColor2Bump
VrayBump2Normal
blending

The little I’ve experienced is frankly top. Do not forget to read the release notes to learn how to use it. All I can say is that it is simple and effective! I am absolutely a fan of the two nodes Bump

Vray-Tool

Making of Taliesin Mod.Fab.

Architectural visualization artist Matt Guetta shares his process of making Taliesin Mod.Fab – A project designed and built by students of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Matt was motivated in exploring Taliesin Mod.Fab as a personal 3d project, being fascinated by the well designed and sustainable project made by students, focusing mostly on lighting and materials. He also took the liberty to create a different environment for the house then the Arizona desert it was originally situated in.

Author: Matt Guetta

Matt Guetta is a CG and 3D Architecture Visualization artist based in France. Starting 3D as a hobby, he quickly became fascinated by the subject, and in 2009 decided to direct his career path towards 3D CG. Matt also has a blog in french about the subject which provides free VRay tutorials at mattguetta.com

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V-Ray 2.30 – Features and improvements

New features:
• Support for 3ds Max 2013;
• Support for the new shading features of Hair & Fur in
3ds Max 2013;
• VRayOrnatrixMod: support for Ornatrix 2.0;
• Added a “Matte for reflection/refraction” option to the
VRayWrapperMtl material and the V-Ray object settings…

Download here the WHOLE PDF document (right click > save)

Chaos Group goes to Oslo in May

Hungry for the latest in VFX and creative technology? Want to meet up with like-minded people from the CG industry? Then join us on May 14th-16th, 2012 in Oslo for the 7th international seminar “Digital Storytelling 2012: The Art and Science of Visual Effects”.

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MOMA Design

3ds Max 2009, V-Ray, AutoCAD 2010, PS CS4

My thesis project. Museum of Modern Art in Rostov-on-Don. Do not set the goal to achieve photorealistic, the principal was architecture, but also received visas pomoymu not bad.

Take a look here > MOMA Design

Clamp Output and Linear Workflow

Some day ago I was talking with Alfa Smyrna.. great artist, I’m sure you already know as Pixela. We was talking about clamp output. Here why is not necessary using clamp output especially working in linear color mapping. First of all we need to know that de default value for clamp is 1,0 and it is the white in 32 bits.

Vray Caustics and «ShowCalcPhase»

To recall the “ShowCalcPhase” allows you to see the calculation of the Global Illumination , eg irradiance map. It is not active by default, you have to activate each new scene. Here the principle is the same, we must activate each time, except that Chaosgroup has not provided a button … So we will have a little script every beast that will allow us to visualize the pre-computation of caustics.

Tutorial to create Vray LensEffect

I think the one you have been waiting for! The VRay Effect Lens is part of topics essential since the release of V-Ray 2.0. This is Alfa Smyrna , better known by the nickname Pixela , which proposes a comprehensive tutorial on its use.

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In Memoria Concept Trailer

Hive Division presents “In Memoria”,
an independent film project set in the Italian front of World War I.

This trailer has been self-funded and it’s meant to represent a first conceptualisation of the project. It’s a proposition that Hive Division is making to prospective sponsors or producers.

Explosions made with Phonix FX / rendered with Vray

MaxScript and Vray Proxy

This is the first tutorial about MaxScript into the Matt Guetta blog. This is nothing incredible, but it’s really useful to save your time without really learn Max Script.