What are caustics and how to render them the right way
Caustics are everywhere in the real world but rarely seen in renders. Learn why they’ve been ignored — and how you can now render them effortlessly in Corona.
Ankit Patel — Director of Developer Product Marketing, NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s powerful, versatile technology has been one of the CG industry’s best power-ups. Find out the story behind the silicone with one of its smartest guys.
Real-time, ray-traced and rasterized rendering explained
Do you know the difference between the three Rs of rendering? We shine a light on the basics of real-time, ray-traced and rasterized rendering to break it down.
Robert Legato — VFX Supervisor and 2nd Unit Director
Meet the three-time Oscar-winner and passionate movie fan who put real tech into virtual sets via “The Aviator,” “The Jungle Book,” “The Lion King” and more.
Zap Andersson — Autodesk (Part Deux)
The Brad Pitt of rendering opens up on OSL shaders, takes a trip into the uncanny valley and talks synthesized cats, slightly annoyed rodents and arm-wrestling.
Marcos Fajardo — Founder and Software Architect, Solid Angle
Get to the choppa and discover the past, present and future of the Arnold renderer with the man who created it
See the future of real-time ray tracing in this new Project Lavina video
Animation support, NVIDIA RTX GPU scaling, a new noise algorithm plus more expand Lavina, the world’s most realistic real-time ray tracer.
Ondřej Karlík & Jaroslav Křivánek — Corona & Caustics
Caustics make good CG scenes look great — but they’re often avoided. Find out why it’s faster and easier to add this lighting phenomenon with Corona Renderer.
The new features you need to know in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max
Are you using the full power of V-Ray Next in your workflow? Vlado Koylazov reveals the essential new features V-Ray Next for 3ds Max, update 2.
Matt Fairclough — Founder and Lead Developer, Terragen
How do we translate atmospheric and geological phenomenon into CG? The creator of Hollywood’s favorite scenery generator talks mountains, Mars and milk.
Phil Miller — Vice President of Product Management, Chaos Group
One of the minds behind computing’s most important creative software has brought his expertise and passion to Chaos Group. He tells Chris his incredible story.
V-Ray GPU advancements in V-Ray Next for Maya
V-Ray Next for Maya is leaps and bounds ahead of 3.6 when it comes to V-Ray GPU capabilities. We’ve compiled some of the most significant improvements.
Profiling the NVIDIA RTX cards
You’ve seen the future of ray tracing and GPU rendering. Now learn how the GeForce RTX cards performed in Vlado’s benchmarking experiments, and what it means.
Kevin Margo & Derron Ross — CONSTRUCT
After five years in production, Kevin Margo’s short film Construct has finally been released. Find out why it’s taken such a long time, and how this little film could change VFX workflows in a big way.
Zap Andersson — Autodesk
Join the Shader Wizard for a journey through the history of ray tracing and a comprehensive guide to metalness.
Ray-Traced Rendering Accelerates to Real-Time With Project Lavina
Discover how Project Lavina is adding real-time to the ease and accuracy of ray tracing for Chaos solutions.
Ondřej Karlík & Jaroslav Křivánek — Corona Renderer
The partnership between Corona and V-Ray is starting to bear photorealistic fruit. Find out how the companies are collaborating, and the exciting new features coming soon to Corona.
Vlado — V-Ray Next
Chris spends some time with Vlado getting the lowdown on V-Ray Next