Past events

For the second year running, Chaos Group will join Cadline’s BIM-focused event — and, for the first time, we’ll be presenting on stage! Our CG specialist Atanas Tudzharov will show how V-Ray for Revit and V-Ray for 3ds Max can work in tandem to help architects receive quick feedback and get great visualization results. He’ll also discuss the advanced materials available for V-Ray products, and demonstrate how V-Ray Swarm can speed up your renders. And feel free to say hello to the friendly Chaos Group team at our booth!

Find out more about Autodesk Building, Infrastructure and Construction User Conference.

Register here.

Our first V-Ray London User Group was an immense success — and the second one is shaping up to be just as good. This time, we’ll take over the Doodle Bar in Bermondsey to discuss recent announcements, and give you exclusive sneak peeks at our exciting upcoming products.

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On November 6 and 7 in Bangalore and on November 9 and 10 in Mumbai, Chaos Group and ARK will host four events of free exclusive V-Ray masterclasses, exciting new release announcements and special presentations by our partners from Trimble and YellowDog.

V-Ray Architecture Day and V-Ray VFX & Animation Day in Bangalore and Mumbai will feature extended, 90-minute masterclasses by CG Specialist Kalina Panteleeva on V-Ray in Revit, SketchUp, 3ds Max and Maya, a special masterclass on V-Ray RT GPU and Phoenix FD 3.4. Adebeo's Narayan Shevni will bring the latest news on SketchUp, while YellowDog's Tom Rockhil will show the benefits of scaling up rendering in the cloud. We will be joined by special guests from Prime Focus World, DSK International, eClerx, Diadeis and others. 

Chaos Group's lead Italian partners 3DWS are set to make the 8th edition of their Digital Drawing Days the most powerful ever, with an impressive international speaker list and completely new learning sections. We have prepared accordingly and will be travelling to Arezzo in full force. CG Specialists Yana Andreeva and Atanas Tudzharov will join the main stage with a number of presentations on our latest releases across platforms and industries, and garner them with some exclusive sneak peeks into V-Ray's next; furthermore they will host two dedicated masterclasses, training all subtleties in achieving stunning images in 3ds Max and SketchUp. And our booth will be the place to see live demos of all our latest releases and have all your V-Ray questions answered.

Learn everything and register at the official DDD 2017 page.

Chaos Group are proud to be a silver sponsor of this year's American Society of Architectural Illustrators conference known as Architecture in Perspective. Founded in 1986, ASAI is comprised of professional illustrators, architects, designers, teachers, students, corporations, and anyone engaged in the serious pursuit of architectural illustration. Architecture in Perspective, is a juried competition that compiles the finest in contemporary architectural illustration, produced by accomplished artists from around the world. 

Our very own Christopher Nichols is a speaker at this year's event and will be giving a talk on Digital Humans.

Find out more here.

Chaos Group's Kalina Panteleeva will be a guest presenter at Przyszłość Tworzenia 2.0 - the 15th anniversary conference, which our partners from PCC Polska are hosting in their home town Wroclaw. Kalina will host two masterclass-grade presentations - one of collaborative visualization using V-Ray in Revit and 3ds Max at the Architecture and Visualization track, followed by a special on animation-focused multiplatform workflows with V-Ray.

Find out more and register at the conference page.

On October 7 we are coming back to Jordan, bringing our trademark V-Ray Day as an official part of this year's Amman Design Week.
Along with our partners Omniplan we will combine special guest presentations with extended masterclasses on V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max and Maya, V-Ray 3.5 for Revit, the groundbreaking new V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp and Rhino and cross-platform workflows for AEC and Design. The afternoon VFX & animation sessions will be focusing on V-Ray 3.6 for Maya and NUKE, as well as Phoenix FD 3, and add a pinch of advanced GPU rendering. Following on October 8 we will be hosted by Omniplan Training at the exclusive V-Ray Masters Day with a day-long hands-on workshop, dedicated to mastering V-Ray for 3ds Max. 

Register for V-Ray Day Jordan.

Register for V-Ray Masters Day.

Our partners ProGrupa are organizing a special 3-day session of their Warsztaty Wizualizacji at ArchiDay - the annual architecture and design conference within Poland's biggest interior Expo - Warsaw Home Expo. Chaos Group's Yana Andreeva will join the 3-day workshop in Warsaw with will likely be the first public preview of the coming V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp. In the following two days she will also hold two special training sessions, based on Arch. Radoslaw Poplawski's Corten House and David Santos' Sarmiento Museum. You will also be able to meet Yana and ProGrupa's dedicated tech specialists at ProGrupa's booth at archiDay's expo area, and ask them everything you need to know on everything V-Ray and visualization-related. 

Learn more and register at the official workshop page.

We’ll serve as main sponsor of this year’s influential and essential State of Art Academy. As well as bringing the beers for happy hour, we’ll fly over our CCO Lon Grohs. On day one at 11 AM, Lon will talk about how VR is transforming the way arch viz artists and studios work, and revolutionizing their approach to 1:1 scale. You’ll have a chance to see stunning VR imagery with six degrees of freedom, and check out exclusive live technology demos in our VR room.

Find out more and register.

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The European leg of BILT’s global tour takes place in Aarhus, Denmark this October. Among the highlights of this three-day event is a talk from HKS’s Jorge Barrero on Thursday, October 5 from 5:00 - 6:15 PM. Jorge will discuss his work on the NFL Los Angeles Rams Stadium, and two innovative projects in the Middle East. You’ll see how visualization has become a key part of HKS’s pipeline, enabling team collaboration and productivity on complex design tasks.

Find out more and register at the BILT website.

At this year’s Rhino Berlin user group, our CG Specialist Yavor Stoykov will deliver an exclusive preview of V-Ray 3.6 for Rhino. You’ll see how its new features and cutting edge technology will help you create photorealistic visualizations more quickly and easily. And you can drop by our booth, where we'll answer questions and demonstrate V-Ray.

Register here.

If you are interested in the latest updates in V-Ray RT’s implementation directly in Grasshopper, Yavor will also join the Grasshopper Users Meeting on October 4.

This October, Chaos Group will touch down in Southeast Asia for four very special days dedicated to V-Ray. You’ll find out about the cutting edge features which can help you create photorealistic imagery quickly and easily, and we’ll welcome local heroes of CG imagery to show us how they approach work.

We’ll begin in Bangkok on October 5 for the SketchUp User Conference Thailand 2017, and stay over for V-Ray Day Bangkok on October 6. On October 10 award-winning artist Nguyen Manh Hung will join us in Vietnam for V-Ray Day Hanoi. We’ll finish our trip with V-Ray Day Ho Chi Minh City on October 12.

Find out more and register at the V-Ray Southeast Asia Tour Microsite.