Beauty and the Bit’s enchanting short-film “The Sound of Ink” tells the story of a library through the eyes of a director. Learn tips to help you recreate it.
A robot in the headlights: Elvira Trofimova’s dazzling image brings FLCL's Canti and Haruko to life. Find out how V-Ray for Maya helped her create and render it.
Beauty and The Bit’s cinematic arch-viz movies have helped redefine the medium. Founder Victor Bonafonte talks about the past, present, and future of the studio.
Digital portrait artist extraordinaire Ian Spriggs gets under the skin of his artworks in “A Portrait of the Digital Age.” Here, he presents an exclusive excerpt.
Think Tank is a world class training centre for feature film, video game, and television production.
Celebrated digital portrait artist Ian Spriggs discusses his book, “A Portrait of the Digital Age,” and talks about the impact of real-time CG humans and NFTs.
Materials, models, and HDRIs: Chaos Cosmos support comes to V-Ray for Maya. Plus all-new features including V-Ray Decal, support for lights in USD, and more.
Chaos is excited about V-Ray 5 for Rhino’s recently released second update! We’ve put together some tips for making the most of V-Ray Vision, Chaos Cosmos, and more.
In true “Inception”-like fashion, Chris talks to The VFX Artists Podcast hosts Kofi Opoku-Ansah and Daniel Mark Miller about careers and creating short films.
Update adds new features to V-Ray for SketchUp and V-Ray for Rhino, including Scatter and V-Ray Decal, plus Chaos Vantage Live Link and V-Ray Vision upgrades.
Share Explorable 3D Scenes in a Click; Instant Access to Real-Time Ray Tracing Within SketchUp and Rhino
Giant Animation’s Lead Character Modeler, Paul Deasy, shares his tips on creating character sculpts and becoming a successful artist online and in the industry.
Fantastic beasts: 3D artist AJ Jeffries talks about the collaborative process of crayon to V-Ray used to recreate schoolkid Mariah's monster drawing.
We are living in a material world: 200 customizable render-ready materials in 13 categories, including terrain, floors and fabrics, now in Chaos Cosmos.
Epic V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max update packs V-Ray Decal support, a Sharpen & Blur VFB layer, batch image processing, Chaos Cosmos materials, lighting controls, and more.
Steve Griffith’s career has taken in everything from “The Matrix Reloaded” to “Jungle Cruise.” Chris picks his brains on virtual production, real-time and AI.
Chaos’ photorealistic renderer was honored with an award for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering in television. Find out more about this incredible win.
In this blog Ryan Grobins takes us through a detailed account of bringing his incredible short film Cyan Eyed to life. From humble beginnings to working with Skywalker Sound, this is a fascinating look of the entire process.
Student competitions launch careers, enhance skill sets, and inspire amazing artwork. Find out how taking part is your shortcut to the professional world.
Spine-chilling short film “The Seahorse Trainer” explores an old man’s hobby of seahorse training. Director Babak Bina shares how V-Ray made it come to life.
Meet Jack Evans, the lighting luminary behind “TRON: Legacy,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Fast & Furious 8,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and “The Mandalorian.”
Photorealistic Production Renderer to be Honored for Advancing the Use of Fully Ray-Traced Rendering in Episodic Television
The man behind CBS’ VFX talks about the past, present and future of making TV shows — and reveals why Chaos deserved its Engineering Emmy Award.