Transform how you create with V-Ray 7 for Houdini.

V-Ray for Houdini

Super-fast production rendering for VFX artists.

Emmy and Academy Award-winning ray tracing technology.

V-Ray’s performance is production-proven. It’s been used by the world’s leading studios to render over 300 television series and feature films. In 2017, V-Ray received a Sci-Tech Academy Award for its contribution to photorealistic visual effects. In 2021, V-Ray was awarded with an Engineering Emmy for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering.

Travis Scott - HIGHEST IN THE ROOM: Ingenuity Studios ©Sony Music

Fast and scalable to help you meet tight deadlines.

V-Ray’s adaptive ray tracing is highly optimized for superior speed and scalability. You can take full advantage of your hardware rendering on multiple CPUs, & GPUs, or both. With V-Ray’s distributed rendering, you can render a single image across multiple machines.

Smart integration for a smooth workflow.

V-Ray works seamlessly with Houdini and enables smooth scene exchange with other DCC applications. V-Ray for Houdini is compatible with industry standards, including USD and MaterialX, ACEScg, Alembic, OpenVDB, and OpenColorIO.

Travis Scott - HIGHEST IN THE ROOM: Ingenuity Studios ©Sony Music

Camila Cabello - Liar: Ingenuity Studios ©Sony Music

Creative control to render anything imaginable.

Bring your projects to life with the right tools for the job. V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools. It's the most full-featured 3D rendering software available.

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Case studies

InspirationMay 23, 2022

Top 5 nodes Goodbye Kansas uses in Solaris for an efficient workflow

The key to a smarter workflow: nodes. Learn how Goodbye Kansas is using the building blocks of scene creation in Houdini to create powerful art.

Artjail © Lexus

VFXJul 6, 2021

Going bananas with V-Ray for Houdini

Artjail’s Lexus spot features bendy fruit falling from the sky. Head of 3D Ross Denner tells us how V-Ray for Houdini was instrumental in this imaginative ad.

Adding V-Ray for Houdini streamlines so many aspects of our pipeline. Combined with V-Ray for Maya and Nuke we have a complete rendering solution that allows look-dev on individual assets to be packaged and easily transferred between applications.

Grant Miller, Creative Director, Ingenuity Studios