The making of “Pink Dress” by Marianna Yakimova
Inspired by the Old Masters, Marianna Yakimova wanted to celebrate her new V-Ray skills with a 3D illustration that showcases beautiful fabric and lighting.
Controlled demolition: tips from Bottleship VFX
With The Wandering Earth rocking the Chinese box office, we ask Bottleship VFX’s Hristo Velev how he unleashes destruction while keeping his business on track.
How this Norwegian studio crafts subsea visualizations
Who knew deep sea machinery could be this hypnotic? Rendering.no shows us a pipeline for pipelines and talks us through creating a stormy ocean in Phoenix FD.
Keeping it simple: Rendering with V-Ray Next for Maya
V-Ray Next for Maya is considerably faster and more efficient than 3.6. Maya expert Stephen DeLalla reveals how he’s taken his workflow to the Next level.
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.
Invasion of the body crashers
Ingenuity Studios knows how to knock ‘em dead. Grant Miller shares how V-Ray for Houdini helped them render a pile of 9,000 zombies for The Walking Dead.
Kelly Port & Matthew Butler — Digital Domain
VFX vets on the serious fun of Digital Domain's input on everything from Titanic to Thanos — plus what it’s like to work with the biggest names in Hollywood.
Rising Talent: Students Create Epic Cinematic in Just 10 Weeks
Good and evil clash in tense short film The Dark Is Rising. Find out how the latest tech helped its creators at Gnomon School create powerful visuals and hit tight deadlines.
Donna Smith — Hollywood Producer
Wanna make it in the movies? The Terminator, Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park producer tells Chris the secrets of cinematic success...
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The Making of Modern House: Essential Techniques for Rhino Users (Part 2)
Master lighting, materials and rendering using Rhino and V-Ray with the finale in our two-part guide to creating fast-and-efficient 3D visualizations.
Faster, more dramatic large-scale water sims with Phoenix FD and V-Ray Cloud
CG Artist Jonas Ussing shares his tips for cinematic splashes via this animation of Tokyo's flood defense system in operation.
Cloudbuster: Manuel Mousiol’s Maserati montage pushes V-Ray Cloud to its limits
See a day in the life of a Maserati in 33 seconds, and find out how it was created with V-Ray for 3ds Max, VRscans and V-Ray Cloud.
Amazing Manes, Bedazzling Beards and Photorealistic Fur with V-Ray Next for Maya
Andrew Krivulya shares his tricks for luscious CG locks — and reveals how V-Ray Cloud has boosted his workflow.
Geoffrey Baumann — VFX Supervisor, Marvel
Black Panther’s VFX supervisor reveals how he worked his way up to this crucially important role.
Four-years, 210 all-CG shots. The film that changed VFX workflows
Before “real-time ray tracing” was sexy: CONSTRUCT is the proof that a small team of top talent can literally change the future of VFX workflows.
Kevin Margo & Derron Ross — CONSTRUCT
After five years in production, Kevin Margo’s short film Construct has finally been released. Find out why it’s taken such a long time, and how this little film could change VFX workflows in a big way.
Rocket science: Meet the CG supervisor behind the furry fan favorite
We talk to Method's Nate Shaw about wrangling Rocket Raccoon into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Avengers: Infinity War.
You won't see another arch viz movie like Landmark anytime soon
Architectural communication studio Beauty and The Bit unleashed its inner Kubrick for this atmospheric short film. Watch it here, and find out how director Victor Bonafonte took advantage of V-Ray Cloud.
Bloated Motors: INK gives the 70s’ unloved autos a helium injection
What began as an in-house experiment has ballooned into a viral phenomenon. We talk to the minds behind this playful reimagining of the cars that style forgot.
How easy is it to render on the Chaos Cloud? TILTPIXEL puts it to the test
Award-winning arch viz studio TILTPIXEL taps into the power of Chaos Cloud to render an animation of the world-famous Harbin Opera House.
Claws and effect: How The Blues Crab could change the tune of the VFX industry
Director Ari Rubenstein invents a new way to create short films using a small team, V-Ray for Nuke, and YellowDog’s cloud rendering service. Discover how he overcame the pinch points of conventional pipelines.
From another Dimension: Adobe’s software gives graphic designers 3D superpowers
Dimension CC makes it easy for anyone to create realistic 3D. Adobe's Zorana Gee and Ross McKegney explain how they launched their app faster with V-Ray App SDK.
Shooting for the Moon: How Lunar Animation Built a VFX Pipeline for the Future
With an impressive CG portfolio that's racked up over 350 million hits on Youtube, VFX studio Lunar Animation does it all — from cartoon cats to VR space battles.
ScanlineVFX takes Black Panther visuals over the edge
For Black Panther's most climactic moments, ScanlineVFX turned to Flowline and V-Ray to simulate and render the perilous backdrop of Wakanda's Warrior Falls.