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Learnvray.com – official V-Ray instructors

If you want to learn from official V-Ray Licensed Instructors approved by Chaos Group, learnvray.com is the largest educational project ever created before today, fully supported by official V-Ray instructors!

Educate is not just making beautiful images, educate is to reveal what are the fundamental concepts behind an image. Only in this way you’ll be able to reproduce the same principle in you own scenes.

The lessons designed in a perfect progression, a first part of 10 lessons is for beginners who start from scratch. From lesson 11 starts the 5SRW method to learn how to apply the most important photographic concepts in V-Ray, using is as it were a real DSRL!

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PIXAR ARTISTS’ MONSTER CLASS – Big Event in Italy

For the first time in Italy, single event in Europe.
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V-Ray Training: Blue Villa

This is one of the best Educational Material for V-Ray.
CgBlog is like a school with video lessons, a teacher and an official Certification about V-Ray.

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Chaos Group interview with Method Studios

VFX Artist Scott Metzger of Method Studios talks about the the work they did for Halo:Reach, and how they use V-Ray for Maya in production.

“Here at Method we have been using V-Ray for Maya since the beginning of its development. It has had huge success in house for feature and commercial work large and small. Having multiple renderer support inhouse it’s a head to head vs match to final only the best images.”

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V-Ray render engine in action for Avatar!

Exclusive interview for 3DVF with the French 3D artist Aymeric Aute from Prime Focus VFX. He shares his experience during his creative work for the James Cameron’s epic motion picture Avatar. He takes us to an impressive trip across his professional history, explaining his migration to the 3D and the opportunity to be part of the starting team on Avatar.

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10 Years Vray – Anniversary Wallpapers

Chaosgroup offers you a unique collection of V-Ray wallpapers featuring our anniversary logo and our special visuals dedicated to the latest CG events we attended. Celebrate V-Ray 10th anniversary!

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10 Years V-Ray

In 2012, Chaos Group Celebrates V-Ray’s 10th Anniversary.
Join us in celebrating ten years of hard work, inspiration, and of course, a little bit of chaos! Take a journey into the making of V-Ray and see how it all started. Win great prizes by entering the Anniversary challenge or simply by taking our survey.

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Bundle V-Ray 2.0 ADV for 3ds Max + Phoenix FD 2.0

Want to be able to create amazing simulations of fire and smoke? Wondering how you can create realistic looking foam and splashes? Get Phoenix FD and flame up those scenes! Add a touch of perfection and render it all with V-Ray for 3ds Max. Get this perfect combo now and save up to 30%!

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Interview – Gabe Askew

His fan video for Grizzly Bear’s song Two Weeks has for the past weeks been receiving a lot of praise in communities such as the Chaos Group forum, Vimeo and Motionographer. We’ve asked Gabe Askew to tell us a litte bit more about himself, and the video.

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The importance of true high dynamic range in HDRI maps

Many people don’t seem to realise that there is more to a HDRI map than only a pretty picture. Since you usually have to decide on buying HDRI maps from examining low dynamic range previews, it’s important to know what to look for and how to spot bad quality maps.

This article will help you in doing just that, with a strong focus on the dynamic range which is usually overlooked, especially by the providers of HDRI maps.

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