How to create photorealistic car renderings with Chaos Scans
Senior CG Artist Thomas Kaufmann shares how he uses V-Ray for Maya with Chaos Scans to communicate his vision and take his images to the next level.
From concept to full-throttle reality, with Chaos you create visual stories that reflect the craftsmanship behind every curve, material, and motion.
Create brand-defining car renderings with unmatched realism using the industry-standard visualization tools V-Ray or Corona.
Materials, lighting, reflections, and cameras behave exactly as they do in the real world, ensuring consistent accuracy across studio, outdoor, and night scenes.
Build complex car paint systems (metallics, flakes, pearlescent layers, clear coats), along with lifelike leather, stitching, carbon fiber, plastics, metals, and interior trims.
Access thousands of premium materials, models, HDRIs. Send us your physical material sample and get a digital twin via our advanced material scanning.
Create brand-defining car renderings with unmatched realism using the industry-standard visualization tools V-Ray or Corona.
Materials, lighting, reflections, and cameras behave exactly as they do in the real world, ensuring consistent accuracy across studio, outdoor, and night scenes.
Build complex car paint systems (metallics, flakes, pearlescent layers, clear coats), along with lifelike leather, stitching, carbon fiber, plastics, metals, and interior trims.
Access thousands of premium materials, models, HDRIs. Send us your physical material sample and get a digital twin via our advanced material scanning.
Vantage integrates seamlessly into your workflow, offering real-time scene exploration, instant look-dev feedback, and lighting-fast rendering of massive scenes.
Quickly evaluate design choices, paint colors, trims, wheels, and lighting variations, and present them clearly to stakeholders. Speed up decision-making during design reviews.
Vantage’s real-time ray tracing delivers astonishing realism. It’s engineered to handle huge, production-scale scenes without additional optimization.
Changes made in your DCC application are instantly reflected. Vantage works with a live link from 3ds Max, Maya, SketchUp, Rhino, Revit, and Cinema 4D.
Bring your car renders and automotive projects to life with film-quality camera tools, animation capabilities, and simulations.
Produce high-impact stills and videos that elevate campaigns and wow your clients.
Craft cinematic flythroughs, time-lapses, and storytelling sequences.
Populate scenes with smart Anima characters, animated crowds, and traffic. Add fire, liquid, and smoke simulations using Phoenix.
The Chaos ecosystem powers a dependable, production-ready pipeline designed for automotive complexity: reliable, efficient, scalable, and predictable under any workload.
V-Ray and Vantage are engineered to render billions of polygons without pre-optimization, baking, or extensive setup.
Easily transfer projects between CAD and DCC tools, across Chaos products, and teams.
Choose CPU, GPU, or hybrid rendering to unlock peak performance. Scale rendering with multi-machine distributed rendering or cloud rendering.
Leverage powerful AI tools to create and enhance materials and scenes faster than ever before.
Turn real-world surface photos into seamless, render-ready PBR materials automatically.
Add realism and detail to supporting elements like foliage, people, and terrain.
Transform low-resolution drafts or renders into high-quality, presentation-ready visuals, saving time and enhancing client communication.
Award-winning, production-proven rendering.
Visualize anything imaginable with a powerful, flexible, industry-standard photorealistic renderer.
Easy photorealism.
High-performance renderer loved by visualization professionals for its ease of use, uncompromising quality, and intuitive workflow.
Real-time scene exploration and rendering.
Explore your most complex 3D production scenes, ray-traced in real-time. Present your project and get instant look-dev feedback. Produce high-quality renderings and animations in record time.
2500+ scanned materials & scanning service.
Each Chaos Scans material is generated using thousands of images. Real-world response to lighting, no seams.
Animated characters, crowds, traffic.
Powerful crowd, character, and traffic animation tool designed to bring realistic movement into your visualizations.
Liquid, fire, and smoke simulation tool.
All-in-one solution for fluid dynamics in 3ds Max and Maya. Simulate realistic fire, smoke, liquids, ocean waves, splashes, spray, mist, and more
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Your ultimate visualization toolkit
✓ High-quality scene exploration in real time
✓ 15,000+ render ready assets and materials
✓ Smart animation, crowd and traffic simulation
Create faster and enhance the realism of your renders in just a few clicks with V-Ray 7, update 2. Enjoy more realistic materials and better material workflows with the new material displacement and AI Material Generation. Easily create realistic people and vegetation using AI Enhancer, produce stunning night renders with the new Night Sky feature, and more.
Corona 14 blends human creativity with AI intelligence, enhanced procedural power, and cosmic inspiration to deliver faster results and more emotional storytelling. Create your best work yet, with more detailed and realistic materials, environments, and atmospheric effects, using the new Gaussian splats support, Night Sky, Fabric Material, AI Material Generator, and more.
Update 1 adds a real-time fluid simulator for smoke and fire. Vantage now also integrates deeper into VFX workflows with a new Hydra Delegate for Houdini and an enhanced Maya Live Link, delivering high-quality real-time rendering directly in the DCC viewport.
