On the 11th of March join us for a captivating and FREE introductory webinar that will introduce you in the fascinating world of architectural rendering using V-Ray. Whether you're an aspiring visualization specialist, an architect or designer, or just a curious creative, this webinar is your gateway to transforming your SketchUp models into stunning, realistic visualizations.

We will explore a project from the early stages of design exploration, look development, go through assembling our scene and adding details, to rendering and postprocessing a final render all with the help of V-Ray and its companion tools.

A series of 6 free online classes — Starts on January 23, 2025, and ends on September 18, 2025 — loaded with exclusive educational content by Nikos Nikolopoulos, Founder and Creative Director of Creative Lighting. The series will help you master archviz and lighting by leveraging both the wisdom of Creative Lighting's philosophy and the cutting-edge technology of Chaos software.

Learn more about composition and storytelling, advanced techniques in lighting, crafting realistic materials, mastering color palettes, and polishing projects to perfection.

Explore how the new Corona to Vantage Live Link enables real-time scene exploration and image rendering in seconds. Discover how to collaborate efficiently with clients and impress them with immersive virtual tours—all powered by Cloud Collaboration. We’ll also cover other exciting new features in update 1, including Caustics through volumes, automatic Exposure and White Balance, AI image upscaling, and more.

Discover how to achieve stunning interior lighting using V-Ray for SketchUp.

Learn how to:

• Quickly generate various lighting options for your interior scene using the LightGen tool.
• Effectively utilize V-Ray Sun and Sky for natural lighting.
• Harness the power of image-based lighting for realistic ambiance.
• Strategically place artificial lights for added depth.
• Master advanced features like Light Mix to effortlessly fine-tune your lighting setups and experiment with various scenarios post-render.

Corona 12 is out now, bringing the long-anticipated scene export to Chaos Vantage, a high-quality visualization environment that enables archviz professionals to swiftly explore and showcase their work in a fully ray-traced setting.

Watch this webinar to learn about the integration between the two tools, including their current capabilities and upcoming developments. Our special guests from Narrativ, Luis Inciarte and Robin Walker, present their latest project, showcasing how they experimented with Corona 12 and Vantage to achieve impressive results.

Connecting real-time and photoreal rendering workflows across multiple software platforms can seem daunting. Join us for a demonstration of Chaos’ enhanced interoperability between real-time design rendering tools like Enscape and photoreal visualization tools like V-Ray, and Vantage.

Using a practice based workflow demonstration developed by a professional visualization expert, the webinar will show real-world architectural use cases made possible by the Chaos .vrscene file.

A recent Architizer survey of 1,200+ architects and designers, commissioned by Chaos, provides a rare, detailed view of the current and planned use of Artificial Intelligence among architects and designers. This webinar shares the key learnings and observations from the survey, including:

• How are architects exploring new frontiers in projects and workflows?
• Which project phase can most benefit from the use of AI?
• What are the ethical concerns about AI's application in architecture?

Watch this webinar recording to learn the essentials for working with materials in V-Ray.

Discover how to apply materials and tweak settings to achieve the desired visual aesthetic. Explore diverse techniques for crafting physically accurate materials, such as gold and metal, as well as lifelike glass materials through perfect reflections and refractions. Learn the efficient use of Chaos Cosmos, our vast collection of pre-configured materials for seamless scene shading with just a few clicks.

Note: The demo is delivered in V-Ray for SketchUp. The webinar is relevant to users of SketchUp, Rhino, and Revit, as V-Ray shares a similar UI across these platforms.

Watch this introductory webinar to learn more about the fascinating world of architectural rendering using V-Ray.

Whether you're an aspiring visualization specialist, an architect or designer, or just a curious creative, this webinar is your gateway to transforming your SketchUp models into stunning, realistic visualizations.

Watch the recording of our live webinar for Chaos Corona 11, where we review the significant new features in Corona 11 for both Cinema 4D and 3ds Max. In the Q&A session, we answered the questions asked by the attendees.

Topics covered:

• Corona Tile Map
• Scatter Altitude
• Corona Power Tools
• Pyro Support (Cinema 4D only)
• Edge Map/Shader
• Improved Normal/Bump filtering
• Additional improvements (New Intel Denoiser, Color Management, Lister updates)
• Q&A Session

Watch this deep dive webinar and learn how you can enhance your visualization workflow using Chaos Vantage.

Get insights on how to create captivating visual presentations of your V-Ray designs, perform minor lighting tweaks to your scenes, and effectively collaborate on all changes with peers and clients.

Watch this free introductory webinar on architectural rendering using V-Ray for SketchUp, and discover the secrets to creating stunning, realistic visualizations.

Whether you're an aspiring visualization specialist, an established architect or designer, or just a curious creative, this webinar is your gateway to transforming your SketchUp models into breathtaking, realistic visualizations.

Topics include:

• What is rendering, and why render?
• Why V-Ray?
• Product demonstration
• Q&A

Chaos Vantage 2 is here — and we’re inaugurating it with an inspiring webinar on July 18 from our friends at creative production studio Brick Visual. Join directors Andrea and Márton to explore an eye-popping animation crafted for the official release and 100% rendered with Vantage 2.

Join us to:

• Discover the main idea driving the animation that Brick Visual produced.
• Delve into the nuances of greenscreen shooting and VFX.
• Learn more about the real-time iteration process with Chaos Vantage and see its impact on the final result.

What is rendering, what is V-Ray, and how does it work? Join us for a free introductory webinar to learn more about the industry’s leading rendering engine and how you can use it in your architectural design process to create jaw-dropping images and animations.

Don’t miss this chance to see V-Ray in action. You’ll learn how to create stunning lighting and realistic materials in a few clicks, add vegetation, and render in the cloud.

Topics include:

• What is rendering?
• Why do you need to render?
• Why V-Ray?
• Product demonstration
• Q&A

During the webinar, host Tom Grimes will showcase the big new features in Corona 10 and demonstrate what you can create using them, and will also answer your questions about the new features during a Q&A session.

The webinar will cover how the new features let you:

• Easily add cracks, dirt, stickers, etching, embossing, and more thanks to individual control over the material channels (Diffuse, Displacement, Metalness, etc.) affected by a Corona Decal.
• Fly cameras through smoke and clouds, or have them half-submerged in water with accurate rendering from Cameras inside volumetric materials such as those from Phoenix simulations.
• Get brighter, more accurate Caustics when rendering to large resolutions.
• Achieve greatly improved quality of blurred highlights when using Depth of Field.
• Easily find and adjust scatters, lights, proxies, displacement, and cameras using the new Listers.

Join Dan Stone from Archilime and technology leaders from Chaos, Lenovo, and NVIDIA to learn how they are working together to make the future of architectural visualization a reality.

You will learn how to:

• Preview animation in real-time with NVIDIA RTX-powered Chaos Vantage
• Render camera animation in V-Ray for SketchUp
• Animate the V-Ray Sun and Sky to create a timelapse
• Simulate different sky conditions with new procedural clouds
• Create repeatable geometric patterns with Enmesh
• Import pre-made models from Chaos Cosmos
• Scatter rocks and other site elements
• Share markups and feedback with Chaos Cloud Collaboration

Join Chaos’ Ana Lyubenova and Kaj Burival, from the Enscape team, for a demonstration of the power of using Enscape and V-Ray in developing your Revit project.

You will learn how to:

• Set up materials and populate your model using Enscape
• Create solar studies and explore your building design
• Share interactive versions of your project with clients and colleagues
• Transfer your Enscape data to V-Ray
• Take your model to photoreal quality
• Visualize your building’s environment using linked files
• Post-process your final renders with V-Ray

Join Boyan from the Chaos 3D team and learn all about all new in V-Ray 6 for Rhino. He will show you how you can save time and assure seamless end-to-end design process with the Enscape to V-Ray compatibility, how to create beautiful skies with less effort and how to build complex geometric patterns for materials with ease and much more.

With this webinar we are deep diving into V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D’s new features and show you how they can help you create anything imaginable. Join Yunal Zobu from the Chaos 3D team as he shares first-hand experience and interesting facts about how the V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D release video was created, what inspired it, the challenges and how V-Ray 6 helped them.

Join Boyan from the Chaos 3D team as he showcases some of the powerful new features and demonstrates how they can help you streamline your workflow and create faster than ever before.

You will learn how you can save time and assure seamless end-to-end design process with the Enscape to V-Ray compatibility, how to create beautiful skies with less effort and how to build complex geometric patterns for materials with ease and much more.

During the webinar, hosts Nejc Kilar and Jake Denham will showcase the big new features in Corona 9 and demonstrate what you can create using them, while host Tom Grimes will be on hand to answer your questions about the new features during the two Q&A sessions.

Topics covered:

• Procedural Clouds
• Corona Pattern
• Edge Trimming
• Out of Core Textures
• And much more!

Join Boyan from the Chaos 3D team as he showcases some of the powerful new features and demonstrates how they can help you streamline your workflow and create faster than ever before.

In this webinar, our 3D artists will show you how V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max’s new features helped them create the fantastic visuals in our release video.

We’ll cover:

• Adding detail to fill out scenes with random or patterned scatters of objects such as rocks or plants
• Crafting just the right cloudy sky for your environment and bringing it to life with animation
• Making materials with more detail than alpha maps, displacement, and bump could ever achieve thanks to Enmesh
• Using displacement in your Decals
• Sharing results and receiving feedback with team members and clients in the Cloud
• Improving materials with thin film effects, better translucency, and more realistic energy conservation
• Embedding an object in an HDRI environment in a realistic way that works from different angles
• ... and more!

This Chaos Vantage webinar takes you behind the scenes of a project so cool, we had to show you.
Creator of Spectrum, Andrea Pedrotti and Chaos’ Simeon Balabanov talk cars, craft, and creativity, and show you how to push Vantage to the limits.

Andrea walks us through his creative process and demonstrate:

• Finding inspiration through anime, music and sports cars
• Building moods, storyboards, and experimenting
• Creating life-like cameras and animating adrenaline-pumped sequences
• Iterating through previz variations in real-time
• Rendering multiple images and animations in lighting fast times with Vantage

During the webinar, your host Nejc Kilar introduces you to Corona 8’s major new features, and shows you how to get started using each of them.

Topics covered:

• Chaos Cosmos: Instant models, materials, and more, for your scenes
• Chaos Scatter: Controllably distribute grass, trees, rocks, cloth fibers and more
• Decals: Add cracks, fingerprints, etc. to detail your textures
• Slicer: Create cutaways with ease
• Customisable Tone Mapping: New tone mapping controls, that you can re-order
• Curvature Map: Age or “dirty-up” your materials with this geometry-sensitive map
• Cryptomatte Support: Industry-standard masks for easier post-production

In this webinar you will see how the powerful and time-saving features in V-Ray 5 can accelerate your daily workflow. Watch as our host explores and populates a state-of-the-art sports center, experiment with lighting and create multiple renders in just a few minutes.

You will find out how to:

• Make the most of V-Ray Vision’s real-time rendering, including navigation, visualization settings, and Grasshopper setup.
• Use and manage Chaos Cosmos assets including editing and work-sharing.
• Automatically generate environment lighting with the Light Gen tool.
• And how to significantly speed up the rendering process using Cloud Batch Rendering.

In this webinar you will find out how V-Ray 5 can support you throughout your workflow. Watch our host build the exterior for a residential area and discuss techniques to speed up any project development phase—from initial concepts to light studies and final renders.

You will see:

• A deep-dive into how V-Ray Vision can become part of your everyday work
• Efficient ways of managing Chaos Cosmos content while you work on a project
• An in-depth guide to the Light Gen tool, covering scenarios and workflows for automatically generated environments
• How to speed-up the rendering process and continue working on a project using Cloud Batch Rendering.

During the webinar, our host Nejc Kilar will walk you through Corona 7’s new features, and give you useful tips to become familiar with the new Physical Material.

You’ll also learn about the updates to the Corona Sky with new Altitude and Volume Effect (aerial perspective) controls, rendering speedups, how glass materials now look better, — and much more!

During the webinar, we’ll cover topics such as:

• Introduction to the new Corona Physical Material
• Several improvements to render speed in different areas
• The new Altitude and Volume Effect parameters in the Corona Sky
• Updates to the Material Library (which is now included in Corona for Cinema 4D!)
• … And more!

With this webinar you will find out how real-time rendering, smart 3D assets and powerful post-processing functionality can help you to create your best-ever work—even after you’ve rendered.

You will find how to:

• Visualize designs in real-time
• Use smart and ready to render 3D assets
• Add more variety to your materials through new layers
• Create multiple lighting scenarios from a single render without re-rendering
• Composite renders directly in the V-Ray Frame Buffer
  and much more!

Chaos Vantage is your fastest route to ray traced real-time. Easily explore your most complex 3D scenes without time-consuming conversions—simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray scene into Vantage and start exploring.

In this video Chaos' Simeon Balabanov and guest speaker Nigel Hunt, owner of Urban VFX and CEO of SINi Software show the latest developments in Chaos Vantage. Watch them in action and see how they can benefit your architecture workflow.
Chaos Vantage requires an NVIDIA RTX series GPU.

With this webinar we will familiarize you with V-Ray 5’s most exciting new features. We will walk you through workflow changes and give you useful tips that make it faster and easier to get the results you want.

You’ll find out about the new V-Ray Frame Buffer, learn how to add more variety to your scenes through new material layers, enhance the magic hour with the refreshed Sun and Sky system, go beyond rendering with V-Ray’s built-in interactive post-processing — and much more!

Join our webinar and find out how V-Ray 5 for Rhino can help you bring your design projects to life.

Topics include:

• Visualizing designs in real-time
• Exploring endless lighting variations automatically
• New sun and sky system
• Improved and more-efficient material workflows
• New material layers
• New randomization options
• Create multiple lighting scenarios from a single render without re-rendering
• V-Ray Vision and Live Link with Grasshopper
• V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Layer based editor for final touches and color corrections
  ... and more!

Join our webinar and find out how V-Ray 5 for SketchUp can help you visualize designs and speed up your workflow.

Topics include:

• Visualizing designs in real-time
• Exploring endless lighting variations automatically
• New sun and sky system
• Improved and more-efficient material workflow
• New material layers
• New randomization options
• Multiple lighting scenarios from a single render without re-rendering
• V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Layer based editor for final touches and color corrections
  ... and more!

In this 50-minute session, host Cory Holm will share workflow tips and tricks and cover best practices for creating a cyberpunk scene using V-Ray 5 for Maya.

In this 45-minute session, host Cory Holm will share workflow tips and tricks and cover best practices for creating an interior scene using V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max. You’ll learn about everything from shading and lighting to applying final touches in the redesigned V-Ray Frame Buffer.

Join our webinar and learn how to put the latest features of Phoenix 4 into action.

Topics include:

• Active Bodies
• Particle Tuner
• Voxel Tuner
• Tex UVW
• thinkingParticles integration
• Standalone Cache Preview tool
  ...and more!

Learn how the powerful new additions in V-Ray Next for Revit can enhance the design process, boost your productivity and help you achieve great-looking images right from your favourite BIM environment.

Topics include:

• New Asset Editor
• Appearance Manager
• Randomize proxy objects
• V-Ray Scene linking
• Lighting Analysis
• Revit Decals
• Auto Exposure and White Balance
• Faster rendering
• Settings and work-sharing
• Improved Denoising

Discover how V-Ray for Unreal can revolutionize your rendering experience and find out about the powerful new features in the latest update.

Topics include:

• Data preparation, including geometry checks and material optimizations
• Exporting from content creation tools (3ds Max)
• Importing with V-Ray for Unreal and Datasmith
• Light setup
• Look development
• Light baking
• Reflections and post-process effects
  ...and more!

Join this webinar to discover the art of rendering and the career opportunities that lie ahead.

Topics include:

• What is rendering?
• V-Ray in Education
• Rendering as a tool, rendering as a career

Learn how the powerful new additions in V-Ray Next for SketchUp deliver great-looking results right out of the box.

Topics include:

• Asset Library Management
• Improved lighting workflows
• New denoising possibilities
• Scene intelligence
• 2x Faster V-Ray GPU

Find out how to transfer V-Ray for 3ds Max projects into Unreal Engine.

Topics covered:

• Installation and setting up
• Exporting from your host application
• Importing into Unreal Editor
• Light setup
• Look development
• Light baking
• Final frame rendering
• Creating a standalone application

Discover how the smarter, faster and more powerful features of V-Ray Next can supercharge your Maya workflow.

Topics include:

• Faster IPR
• V-Ray GPU Next
• AI Denoiser
• Speed improvements

And much more!

In this 45-minute session, host Anastasia Zhivaeva will cover all the essential steps and best practices for creating a V-Ray for SketchUp project from scratch.

Topics covered:

• The camera
• The environment
• Lighting
• Shading
• Atmospheric effects
• Rendering settings
• Frame buffer functions
• Render elements and compositing

In this 45-minute webinar, CG Specialist Anastasia Zhivaeva explains the process of setting up a project in simple steps.

Topics covered:

• The camera
• The environment
• Lighting
• Shading
• Atmospheric effects
• Rendering settings
• Frame Buffer functionalities
• Render Elements and compositing

Learn how the incredible toolset of V-Ray Next makes it quicker and easier to get stunning results.

Topics covered:

• Adaptive Dome Light
• Point & shoot camera
• 2X faster GPU rendering
• GPU-accelerated volume rendering
• Interactive AI Denoiser
• Lighting Analysis tools
• Substance Designer and PBR workflow

Get the lowdown on V-Ray 3.6 for Revit’s supercharged new features.

Topics covered:

• New Asset Browser
• V-Ray Proxies
• V-Ray Grass & Fur
• Hybrid Rendering
• V-Ray for Revit’s new UI
• Faster Scene Export

Learn how the latest V-Ray tech can help you create photorealistic imagery quickly and easily.

Topics covered:

• GPU & Hybrid Rendering
• Adaptive Lights
• Light instances
• Animation
• V-Ray for Grasshopper
• Denoiser Improvements
• VRscans support

See how V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp can boost your productivity in architecture and design projects.

Topics covered:

• GPU Rendering & Hybrid Rendering
• Adaptive Lights
• Viewport Rendering
• Smarter UI
• VRscans Compatibility

V-Ray 3 for Rhino’s professional lighting and rendering tools are perfect for architects & product designers. See why.

Topics covered:

• New UI
• Material library
• V-Ray Swarm
• Denoiser
• Virtual Reality
• Section cuts
• Aerial perspective
• Grass & fur

V-Ray 3.5 for Maya brings faster rendering, more responsive look development, and added realism to high-end VFX and animation projects.

Topics covered:

• Adaptive Lights
• V-Ray IPR
• V-Ray Frame Buffer Tools
• alSurface Material
• GPU Rendering Improvements
• Resumable Rendering

V-Ray 3 for SketchUp has been redesigned from the ground up to help users focus on being creative without worrying about the technical stuff.

Topics covered:

• New UI
• Material library
• V-Ray Swarm
• Denoiser
• One-click VR
• Section cuts
• Aerial perspective
• Grass

Learn about the eight must-have features in V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max including Adaptive Lights, our new efficient lighting algorithm which drastically speeds up render times.

Topics covered:

• Adaptive Lights
• Resumable rendering
• Interactive production rendering
• GPU improvements
• Live VR rendering
• Glossy Fresnel
• alSurface material
• MDL materials
• Interactive lens effects