

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.

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.
© Dabarti StudioOn 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.

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.
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.
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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.

Autodesk University's first full-scale edition in Turkey will happen in Istanbul on October 4, featuring tracks on BIM, construction, engineering, design and manufacturing. Our team will be hosted on a dedicated Chaos Group booth by our exclusive distributor Penta. CG Specialist Kalina Panteleeva will be doing live demos of our latest releases for the AEC, Design and M&E industries, as well as carrying out Q&A sessions throughout the day. Everyone is welcome to come by and request a dedicated personal session on V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max, Maya, Revit and everything else V-Ray.

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.
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.
Autodesk’s University event heads to Moscow for two days dedicated to BIM and generative design. We’ve called on Alexander Bakushkin, head of the Media and Entertainment Department at Softline Group, to give a presentation on how architects and 3D artists can work together across V-Ray for Revit and V-Ray for 3ds Max. And our Russian distributor CSD will highlight the latest V-Ray for Revit features at their booth.
The biggest names in VFX, gaming, arch viz and software will gather at this year’s Splash for two days of presentations, partying and networking. Stop by the main hall on September 9 at 3pm for a presentation by Chaos Group’s Yavor Stoikov. Yavor will reveal time-saving shortcuts in V-Ray, and show how it works seamlessly and efficiently across many platforms including 3ds Max, Maya, and NUKE. He’ll also touch on the explosive power of Phoenix FD, Chaos Group’s simulation software.
Find out more and register at the Splash 2017 website.
Chaos Group will make its Ukrainian debut with two V-Ray Days. V-Ray Architecture Day Kyiv and V-Ray VFX & Animation Day Kyiv will feature a series of extended masterclasses which cover major platforms for architecture, design, animation and VFX.
At both events, Chaos Group’s CG Specialist Kalina Panteleeva will share advanced tips and tricks on how the latest releases of V-Ray can produce renders of the highest quality in 3ds Max, SketchUp, Revit, Maya and Phoenix FD. And she’ll discuss the exciting roadmap for V-Ray products.
Find out more and register at our V-Ray Days Kiev page (in Russian).