How they made a better CGI Thanos for Avengers: Endgame
Learn how the award-winning VFX studio Digital Domain used V-Ray to render an even better Thanos for Marvel's Avengers: Endgame — the highest-grossing film of all time.
Rendering the Game of Thrones title sequence in V-Ray Next
Learn how Elastic took their creative — and their rendering — to a new level with V-Ray Next for Maya for the final season of Game of Thrones.
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.
Total Chaos: Day one recap
Ian Spriggs exclusively unveils his latest portrait, Vlado on new V-Ray Next for 3ds Max features, women in tech panel plus more from Chaos Group's conference.
The secrets of Ian Spriggs’ 3D portraits
Ian Spriggs takes attention to detail to the Next level. Go behind the scenes of his recent works to see how a master tells story through composition and detail.
Listen up! We’ve compiled 2018’s top 15 CG Garage podcasts
Punk production designers, CG portrait painters, powerful producers and previz pioneers — Chris Nichols selects his favorite podcasts of the last 12 months.
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.
Accelerate your workflow with V-Ray Next for Maya IPR
We’ve improved the way that IPR works in V-Ray Next for Maya to help you dramatically speed up your workflow. Here’s everything you need to know.
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.
Understanding metalness
The importance of metalness and why we’ve added the Metalness parameter to the V-Ray standard material to better support a PBR workflow in V-Ray Next.
Zap Andersson — Autodesk
Join the Shader Wizard for a journey through the history of ray tracing and a comprehensive guide to metalness.
Dramatically Expand your Material and Texture Library with V-Ray Plugin Nodes
Would you like more shaders and textures at your fingertips? In this helpful guide, we’ll reveal the key to unlocking access through the V-Ray Plugin Nodes.
Mint Studios takes us behind its GPU rendering based workflow
Leonardo Bartz from Mint Studios renders entirely on GPU. He reveals his workflow and shows how he makes use of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max's new features.
V-Ray Next: Denoising in Production
We explain the differences between NVIDIA's AI denoiser and V-Ray Next's own denoiser. We explain how ours allows for proper compositing and temporal denoising.
Andre Matos — Porsche AG
CG artist shares tricks of the trade for awesome automobile renders
Dean Niskota & Hrvoje Čop — Polymachine
Legendary Croatian arch viz firm Studio Niskota is no more — but something bigger and better is in the pipeline. Founders Dean and Hrvoje tell Chris what’s next.
Total Chaos: Watch the Keynote Now!
Vlado officially launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max — plus speeches from IKEA, Nvidia, and Google
Getting a cinematic look with V-Ray GPU Next & volumetrics
Tomasz Wyszolmirski from Dabarti Studio shares some top volume rendering techniques using V-Ray Next.
How to set up Lighting Analysis in V-Ray Next
Find out how to analyze and measure the light levels in your 3D scene using the new Lighting Analysis tools in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.
Next Level GPU Rendering in V-Ray Next
Learn all about the new production-ready features and improvements coming to V-Ray GPU in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max.
V-Ray Next: The science behind the new hair shader
A deeper look at the new hair shader in V-Ray next. It describes how to understand the shader in a more physiological way, then takes you through the steps of setting one up for Look development including using V-Ray GPU in IPR rendering.