Chaos Group at the SIGGRAPH 2005 exhibition

Chaos Group welcomes visitors of the SIGGRAPH 2005 exhibition to visit booth #2201, where they can see the latest technology previews for Chaos Group products:

Technology previews:

•  Extended features of V-Ray 1.5 for 3dsmax (sun/sky system, physical camera, extended shaders).

•  V-Ray for Alias Maya

•  V-Ray standalone

•  Aura - the fire and smoke fluid dynamics enginge

Demonstrations:

Robert Nederhorst – currently a Visual Effects Supervisor at Sway Studio after a 7.5 year gig at Digital Domain where he served as 2D Sequence Supervisor as well as doing lighting and rendering. He has been instrumental in the development of various visual effects tools such as Nuke, FrameCycler, SpeedGrade DI. He has worked on such films as Stealth, The Day after Tomorrow, Daredevil, Star Trek: Nemesis, We Were Soldiers, Vanilla Sky, Spy Kids, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, X-Men, and Supernova. He has been published in Millimeter, and 3D Design. He recently worked on a Nine Inch Nails music video where he designed the lighting and rendering pipeline – with V-Ray.

Christopher Nichols - Chaos Group is proud to have Christopher Nichols of Sony Pictures Imageworks - author of the newly released DVD "The Gnomon Workshop: Global Illumination: Exteriors, V-Ray Lighting Techniques". His previous work includes lighting the feature films I,Robot and The Day After Tomorrow at Digital Domain.

Partner demonstrations:

Chaos Group will team up with ASGVIS to demonstrate connections from other software packages to the V-Ray rendering system. ASGVIS will demonstrate their V-Ray bridges to Rhinoceros 3.0 by McNeel and Associates, SketchUp by @Last Software and Revit by Autodesk. For more information, visit http://www.asgvis.com.

V-Ray for trueSpace7

The highly anticipated release of Caligari's trueSpace7, the first collaborative 3D authoring solution on the market, will offer the latest version of the V-Ray renderer as a separate option. The V-Ray renderer is seamlessly integrated into trueSpace7 to ensure that Caligari's users have access to one of the industry's most powerful and robust tools for 3D designs. trueSpace7 is scheduled to ship later this year, and can be pre-viewed at SIGGRAPH in booth # 818.

"V-Ray is recognized as one of the highest-quality renderers on the market today," said Roman Ormandy, president and CEO of Caligari. "Our sophisticated users are anxious to take advantage of V-Rays global illumination, which is a perfect complement to the advanced modeling and animation features included in the upcoming trueSpace7 release."

About Chaos Group

Chaos Group is a software developer of 3d graphics applications. In the course of more than 6 years in the field, Chaos Group has created a number of very successful projects, including Phoenix (a fire/smoke plugin for 3dsmax), SimCloth (a free cloth simulation system for 3dsmax), Aura (advanced fire and smoke fluid simlator). The V-Ray rendering system by Chaos Group is widely accepted as the standard for highly realistic photographic output in terms of quality, workflow and speed.

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