Customer Success Story :: Atomic Fiction, USA
Interview with Kevin Baillie, Cofounder and VFX Supervisor
"Throughout our entire R&D over the years, the package that V-Ray offers is the one that makes the most sense to us. V-Ray offers the tools that our artists need to do their job quickly without having to spend time developing them in-house."
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Customer Success Story :: Norwegian School of IT (NITH)
Interview with Ivar Kjellmo, Assistant professor in 3D graphics
NITH is a private IT University located in Oslo. The school offers bachelor courses in information technology and master classes in information systems. Students may choose between the following majors: programming, game programming, game design, e-business, digital marketing, 3d graphics, mobile app development and interactive design.
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Customer Success Story :: Locus Creative Studios, Korea
Interview with Jae-sung Lee & Don-hyeon Choi
Locus Corporation was founded in 2009 and has become a world-class Creative CGI Studio bringing together professional managers and artists from Korea and abroad.
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Customer Success Story :: RealtimeUK
Interview with Ian Jones & Will Elliott
When did you first start using V-Ray? Can you list the projects you have completed with V-Ray over the years?
We started using V-Ray back in early 2003-2004. The first big release to use it was the original E3 trailer for Motorstorm in 2005 and we've used it ever since. In game trailers alone, we used it for: Motorstorm 1 and 2, APB, Juiced2, all of our SCEE : Buzz work, Stormbirds, Split/Second, Squeeballs, Super Car Challenge, Napoleon : Total War, Dirt3, Kinect Sports Season 2, Dirt : Showdown, and we are currently working on two exciting trailers for this year's E3.
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Customer Success Story :: Ixor VFX, Greece
Interview with Andronikos Bisogiannis, Founder at Ixor VFX
Chaos Group recently had the opportunity to catch up with Andronikos Bisogiannis at IXOR to discuss a few of the studio’s most recent projects and talk about what’s in store for 2012.
Established in 2005, IXOR is a CG production studio based in Athens, Greece with offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Andronikos recalls, “In the early days of IXOR one thing was clear – everyone at the studio shared a passion for computer graphics. We started off creating architectural images and TV commercials, and over the last few years, IXOR has evolved into a full CGI production company offering high quality visual effects, CG creatures, and CG animals.”
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Customer Success Story :: ArtefactoryLab, France
Interview with Olivier Campagne, CG Artist
Can you tell us a little background on ArtefactoryLab?
ArtefactoryLab, previously named Artefactory, is a studio based in Paris, specializing in architectural imagery. For over a decade, we’ve been creating images and animations for international architectural studios such as Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Herzog et De Meuron, The Renzo Piano Building Workshop, OMA, and Frank Gehry.
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Customer Success Story :: Akama Studio, France
Interview with Stéphane Montel and Mhamed Elmezoued
How did it all start and what did make Akama the successful company it is today?
Based in Paris, Akama Studio was born in 2004 from the encounter between two directors, Cédric Jeanne and Alexandre Ada, who decided to found a studio to better control the production of their film. Beginning mainly with 3D animation, the studio has diversified over the years and today we are well recognized in the field of 3D animation, 2D and visual effects. We work with major advertising agencies such as Publicis, BETC and DDB, and for large clients such as Nestle, Lacoste, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Ubi Soft and many more.
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Customer Success Story :: Taylor James, UK
Interview with Glen Taylor, Siear Waizy and Dave Wortley
Tell us of any recent changes to your production workflow and how V-Ray has contributed to your success in 3D visualization?
We’ve been using RT in production to help us light and shade our scenes a lot quicker, it’s very useful for previs, getting the lighting to the exact angle, getting the reflections exactly where we need them, being able to sit down with clients and in real-time they can see the tweaks that they want us to make. Combining V-Ray RT with using the VRayPhysicalCamera we can use it to expose our images correctly to get the best lighting and get the most from our HDR lighting.
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Customer Success Story :: The Chimney Pot, Sweden
Interview with Ruslan Ogorodnik, CG Supervisor
The Chimney Pot produces work for a variety of multimedia, including commercial videos, music videos, and movies. It boasts who’s who list of musicians: Madonna, Robbie Williams, Rammstein, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Ozzy Osbourne, Roxette, Christina Aguilera, Cardigans, Moby, Lenny Kravitz, and many others. The company got MTV Music Award for Best Special Effects for Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” in 2009.
Recently, they assisted David Fincher in preparing visual effects materials for the new Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie filmed in Sweden. They are also participating in the filming of the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, where they intensively use V-Ray to create CG interiors.
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Customer Success Story :: Silestone and The Third and The Seventh projects
Interview with Alex Roman, CG Artist
You have always been connected to the art of visualization in one way or another. Would you tell us more about yourself?
I was born in 1979 in Alicante, Spain. After being trained in traditional painting at a few schools, I discovered the world called CG. After school, I moved to Madrid and began working for a visual effects company. That stint didn’t last too long due to the lack of demand for visual effects in the Spanish market at the time. It was then that I switched to the architectural visualization (VIZ) business. I worked for several companies before taking a sabbatical for a year to work on an “already built work” visualization series, which has now been stitched together into a short animated CG piece called “The Third & The Seventh.”
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Customer Success Story :: Blur Studio
Interview with Kevin Margo, CG Supervisor
Tell us more about BLUR studio and the latest company projects. Could you also present yourself and your role in the company in a few sentences?
BLUR Studio has been creating award-winning visual effects, animation and design, applying its creative skills across various mediums. We produce 3D character animation, motion design and visual effects for feature films and television, game cinematics & trailers, large format films, location-based entertainment, commercials and integrated media. Located in Venice, California, we combine the passion and excitement from our directors, animators, designers, concept artists, and writers with our clients into a collaborative creative approach that results in compelling visuals and storytelling.
That's a nicely polished summary of what I'd call a truly unique and kick ass work environment filled with inspiring artists who bring tons of skill and heart to every project that goes through the studio. The air is thick with creative energy and it's been a blast contributing and feeding off the buzz.
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Customer Success Story :: Prime Focus
Interview with Anselm von Seherr-Toss
You studied media design in Hannover, Germany and now you work at a studio in L.A. Can you tell us how you got hired overseas?
In 2001 I graduated from the high school and went to a college to study media design. One day a class mate brought Cinema 4D and Maya to class installed in his notebook. From that moment on I didn't participated in the lessons much :). After the university in fall 2004 I looked for CG companies in Hannover and found SoulPix, a small and unconventional studio that uses 3D Studio Max (these days they switched to Cinema 4D).
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Customer Success Story :: Prime Focus
Interview with Aymeric Aute, VFX
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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Customer Success Story :: Platige Image
Interview with Kamil Pohl, Lighting & Rendering Artist
What attracted you to CG and why? Does it happen accidentally or it was a matter of conscious choice?
This started about 10 years ago. At that time I was interested mainly in Photoshop and in printing photos, sometimes I was making something in the field of vector graphics. This continued until once I saw a strange program on the display of an acquaintance of mine. There were no colours, no palette of colours or layers in it. Only lines crossing, mysterious windows with sliders and options... Everything looked very exotic. I was looking at the third version of 3d studio Max. Of course, I did not start immediately working with this kind of graphics. This passion has been becoming imminent for me for several years, spent in efforts to solve this program...
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