Production-proven ray traced rendering with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal imagery and animations.
Built to handle the absolute toughest projects and largest scenes.
Multicore CPU and GPU-accelerated rendering engines for optimized speed and scalability.
Real-time look development with interactive lighting, shading and rendering.
Integrated seamlessly into Maya and designed to fit any production pipeline.
Top artists and studios rely on V-Ray for Maya to create award-winning animation & visual effects.
V-Ray Next for Maya features V-Ray Scene Intelligence, accelerated IPR workflows — and supercharged, now-twice-as-fast GPU production rendering. The net result is the smartest, most powerful version of V-Ray that's up to 7x faster.
This update includes support for Maya 2019, Memory tracking, Cryptomatte masks for VRayProxy sub-objects, Faster geometry export for quick render startup plus a number of important refinements.
Easier to optimize your scene with new memory usage report for textures and objects.
Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting based on V-Ray Scene Intelligence.
Redesigned IPR for faster feedback and continuous updates.
The NVIDIA AI denoiser is now available for interactive rendering with V-Ray IPR in the viewport.
Quickly isolate selected textures and materials to help debug large shading networks in IPR.
Create high-quality previz and animation tests via Playblasts with Viewport IPR.
Fast new GPU rendering architecture that now supports more high-end production features.
V-Ray GPU now supports blazing fast rendering of volumetric effects like smoke, fire and fog.
Adds support for Cryptomatte render elements.
© Ian SpriggsRender more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights and new glint and glitter controls.
The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with new Metalness reflection controls.
Easily create non-photorealistic, cartoon and cel-shading effects. Now with new options for advanced line control.
© Daniel KhoHighly-optimized, adaptive ray tracing for the best combination of fast rendering and superior image quality.
© Method StudiosGet an added speed boost with GPU-accelerated look development and final frame rendering.
V-Ray GPU CUDA now renders on CPUs as well as GPUs, to take full advantage of all available hardware.
Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off.
Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button.
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Fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights.
© Daniel KhoRender natural, artificial and image-based lighting with a wide range of light types, shapes and controls.
© AardmanChoose from ray traced and hybrid global illumination methods for the perfect balance of quality and speed.
© Jean-Michel BihorelCreate any type of physically-based material with multiple layers.
© Ian SpriggsChoose from a collection of specialty and purpose-built shaders for SSS, skin, hair and more.
General-purpose shader with layered SSS and glossy fresnel reflections — popular for skin.
Now supporting NVIDIA’s universal Material Definition Language format.
Compatible with 1000+ ultra-realistic scanned materials.
Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time with no extra modeling.
Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.
© Paul PaulinoWork with multi-resolution tiled textures from top applications MARI, Mudbox and Zbrush.
This powerful tool layers textures with blend modes and individual masking controls.
Now supporting Alembic 1.7 and layers for efficient handling and updating of Alembic data.
Digital Domain © Summit EntertainmentFit massive scenes into memory and cut render times using load-on-demand proxy objects.
Digital Domain © DisneyRender realistic hair with support for Maya hair and fur, XGen, Ornatrix, Shave and a Haircut, and Yeti.
Mr. X © Sony PicturesRender optimized volumetric effects and import OpenVDB files from Realflow and Houdini.
Method Studios © Warner Bros.Output a complete set of beauty, utility, and matte passes for total control in compositing.
Render individual lights or groups of lights as separate render elements for accurate light mixing in post.
Automatically generate ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur.
In “Dragon Recipes,” a young witch conjures something unexpected. Director Maria Pavlou shares how V-Ray for Maya and Chaos Cloud helped make this cute short.
Agents of Chaos flew to California this summer to share with Gnomon students how an efficient V-Ray Next for Maya workflow can make them even better artists.
The esteemed CG student contest has revealed its winners. Check out some of the top V-Ray-rendered entries and learn co-founder Alwyn Hunt’s secrets for success.
Unlock the many powerful features available in V-Ray Next for Maya in this comprehensive series of video tutorials packed with tips by VFX artist Rusty Hazelden.
Get all the latest V-Ray news, Corona updates and highlights from Chaos’ new real-time ray tracer, Lavina — plus the full scoop from Total Chaos @ SIGGRAPH 2019.
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.
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