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Getting started with V-Ray for Architectural Visualization >

Watch this introductory webinar to learn more about the fascinating world of architectural rendering using V-Ray.

Whether you're an aspiring visualization specialist, an architect or designer, or just a curious creative, this webinar is your gateway to transforming your SketchUp models into stunning, realistic visualizations.

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Archviz Masterclass series with Creative Lighting >

A series of 8 free online classes — starting on Dec 7, 2023, and ending on Sep 26, 2024 — loaded with exclusive educational content by Nikos Nikolopoulos, Founder and Creative Director of Creative Lighting. The series will help you master archviz and lighting by leveraging both the wisdom of Creative Lighting's philosophy and the cutting-edge technology of Chaos software.

Learn more about composition and storytelling, advanced techniques in lighting, crafting realistic materials, mastering color palettes, and polishing projects to perfection.

Save your seat >

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Optimizing your design workflow with Chaos Vantage >

Watch this deep dive webinar and learn how you can enhance your visualization workflow using Chaos Vantage.

Get insights on how to create captivating visual presentations of your V-Ray designs, perform minor lighting tweaks to your scenes, and effectively collaborate on all changes with peers and clients.

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Getting started with V-Ray for SketchUp >

Watch this free introductory webinar on architectural rendering using V-Ray for SketchUp, and discover the secrets to creating stunning, realistic visualizations.

Whether you're an aspiring visualization specialist, an established architect or designer, or just a curious creative, this webinar is your gateway to transforming your SketchUp models into breathtaking, realistic visualizations.

Topics include:

  • What is rendering, and why render?
  • Why V-Ray?
  • Product demonstration
  • Q&A
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From concept to creation: Using Chaos Vantage 2 to create stunning animations >

Chaos Vantage 2 is here — and we’re inaugurating it with an inspiring webinar on July 18 from our friends at creative production studio Brick Visual. Join directors Andrea and Márton to explore an eye-popping animation crafted for the official release and 100% rendered with Vantage 2.

Join us to:

  • Discover the main idea driving the animation that Brick Visual produced.
  • Delve into the nuances of greenscreen shooting and VFX.
  • Learn more about the real-time iteration process with Chaos Vantage and see its impact on the final result.
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Introduction to V-Ray >

What is rendering, what is V-Ray, and how does it work? Join us for a free introductory webinar to learn more about the industry’s leading rendering engine and how you can use it in your architectural design process to create jaw-dropping images and animations.

Don’t miss this chance to see V-Ray in action. You’ll learn how to create stunning lighting and realistic materials in a few clicks, add vegetation, and render in the cloud.

Topics include:

  • What is rendering?
  • Why do you need to render?
  • Why V-Ray?
  • Product demonstration
  • Q&A
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Tools & Techniques to Visualize an Eco-friendly Home >

Join Dan Stone from Archilime and technology leaders from Chaos, Lenovo, and NVIDIA to learn how they are working together to make the future of architectural visualization a reality.

You will learn how to:

  • Preview animation in real-time with NVIDIA RTX-powered Chaos Vantage
  • Render camera animation in V-Ray for SketchUp
  • Animate the V-Ray Sun and Sky to create a timelapse
  • Simulate different sky conditions with new procedural clouds
  • Create repeatable geometric patterns with Enmesh
  • Import pre-made models from Chaos Cosmos
  • Scatter rocks and other site elements
  • Share markups and feedback with Chaos Cloud Collaboration
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Real-time to photoreal with Enscape & V-Ray in Revit >

Join Chaos’ Ana Lyubenova and Kaj Burival, from the Enscape team, for a demonstration of the power of using Enscape and V-Ray in developing your Revit project.

You will learn how to:

  • Set up materials and populate your model using Enscape
  • Create solar studies and explore your building design
  • Share interactive versions of your project with clients and colleagues
  • Transfer your Enscape data to V-Ray
  • Take your model to photoreal quality
  • Visualize your building’s environment using linked files
  • Post-process your final renders with V-Ray
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V-Ray 6 for Rhino - render everything >

Join Boyan from the Chaos 3D team and learn all about all new in V-Ray 6 for Rhino. He will show you how you can save time and assure seamless end-to-end design process with the Enscape to V-Ray compatibility, how to create beautiful skies with less effort and how to build complex geometric patterns for materials with ease and much more.

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Free your imagination with V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D >

With this webinar we are deep diving into V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D’s new features and show you how they can help you create anything imaginable. Join Yunal Zobu from the Chaos 3D team as he shares first-hand experience and interesting facts about how the V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D release video was created, what inspired it, the challenges and how V-Ray 6 helped them.

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V-Ray 6 for SketchUp - render everything >

Join Boyan from the Chaos 3D team as he showcases some of the powerful new features and demonstrates how they can help you streamline your workflow and create faster than ever before.

You will learn how you can save time and assure seamless end-to-end design process with the Enscape to V-Ray compatibility, how to create beautiful skies with less effort and how to build complex geometric patterns for materials with ease and much more.

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V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max: Creating detailed exteriors in no time >

In this webinar, our 3D artists will show you how V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max’s new features helped them create the fantastic visuals in our release video.

We’ll cover:

  • Adding detail to fill out scenes with random or patterned scatters of objects such as rocks or plants
  • Crafting just the right cloudy sky for your environment and bringing it to life with animation
  • Making materials with more detail than alpha maps, displacement, and bump could ever achieve thanks to Enmesh
  • Using displacement in your Decals
  • Sharing results and receiving feedback with team members and clients in the Cloud
  • Improving materials with thin film effects, better translucency, and more realistic energy conservation
  • Embedding an object in an HDRI environment in a realistic way that works from different angles
  • ... and more!
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How to render a high-speed car animation with Chaos Vantage >

This Chaos Vantage webinar takes you behind the scenes of a project so cool, we had to show you.
Creator of Spectrum, Andrea Pedrotti and Chaos’ Simeon Balabanov talk cars, craft, and creativity, and show you how to push Vantage to the limits.

Andrea walks us through his creative process and demonstrate:

  • Finding inspiration through anime, music and sports cars
  • Building moods, storyboards, and experimenting
  • Creating life-like cameras and animating adrenaline-pumped sequences
  • Iterating through previz variations in real-time
  • Rendering multiple images and animations in lighting fast times with Vantage
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V-Ray 5 for Rhino: Tips for a quick and easy architectural workflow >

In this webinar you will see how the powerful and time-saving features in V-Ray 5 can accelerate your daily workflow. Watch as our host explores and populates a state-of-the-art sports center, experiment with lighting and create multiple renders in just a few minutes.

You will find out how to:

  • Make the most of V-Ray Vision’s real-time rendering, including navigation, visualization settings, and Grasshopper setup.
  • Use and manage Chaos Cosmos assets including editing and work-sharing.
  • Automatically generate environment lighting with the Light Gen tool.
  • And how to significantly speed up the rendering process using Cloud Batch Rendering.
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V-Ray 5 for SketchUp webinar: Tips to accelerate your everyday workflow >

In this webinar you will find out how V-Ray 5 can support you throughout your workflow. Watch our host build the exterior for a residential area and discuss techniques to speed up any project development phase—from initial concepts to light studies and final renders.

You will see:

  • A deep-dive into how V-Ray Vision can become part of your everyday work
  • Efficient ways of managing Chaos Cosmos content while you work on a project
  • An in-depth guide to the Light Gen tool, covering scenarios and workflows for automatically generated environments
  • How to speed-up the rendering process and continue working on a project using Cloud Batch Rendering.
V-Ray 5 for Revit webinar >

With this webinar you will find out how real-time rendering, smart 3D assets and powerful post-processing functionality can help you to create your best-ever work—even after you’ve rendered.

You will find how to:

  • Visualize designs in real-time
  • Use smart and ready to render 3D assets
  • Add more variety to your materials through new layers
  • Create multiple lighting scenarios from a single render without re-rendering
  • Composite renders directly in the V-Ray Frame Buffer
    and much more!
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Real-time with Chaos Vantage webinar >

Chaos Vantage is your fastest route to ray traced real-time. Easily explore your most complex 3D scenes without time-consuming conversions—simply drag and drop your complete V-Ray scene into Vantage and start exploring.

In this video Chaos' Simeon Balabanov and guest speaker Nigel Hunt, owner of Urban VFX and CEO of SINi Software show the latest developments in Chaos Vantage. Watch them in action and see how they can benefit your architecture workflow.
Chaos Vantage requires an NVIDIA RTX series GPU.

V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D webinar >

With this webinar we will familiarize you with V-Ray 5’s most exciting new features. We will walk you through workflow changes and give you useful tips that make it faster and easier to get the results you want.

You’ll find out about the new V-Ray Frame Buffer, learn how to add more variety to your scenes through new material layers, enhance the magic hour with the refreshed Sun and Sky system, go beyond rendering with V-Ray’s built-in interactive post-processing — and much more!

V-Ray 5 for Rhino webinar >

Join our webinar and find out how V-Ray 5 for Rhino can help you bring your design projects to life.

Topics include:

  • Visualizing designs in real-time
  • Exploring endless lighting variations automatically
  • New sun and sky system
  • Improved and more-efficient material workflows
  • New material layers
  • New randomization options
  • Create multiple lighting scenarios from a single render without re-rendering
  • V-Ray Vision and Live Link with Grasshopper
  • V-Ray Frame Buffer
  • Layer based editor for final touches and color corrections
    ... and more!
V-Ray 5 for SketchUp webinar >

Join our webinar and find out how V-Ray 5 for SketchUp can help you visualize designs and speed up your workflow.

Topics include:

  • Visualizing designs in real-time
  • Exploring endless lighting variations automatically
  • New sun and sky system
  • Improved and more-efficient material workflow
  • New material layers
  • New randomization options
  • Multiple lighting scenarios from a single render without re-rendering
  • V-Ray Frame Buffer
  • Layer based editor for final touches and color corrections
    ... and more!
V-Ray 5 for Maya webinar >

In this 50-minute session, host Cory Holm will share workflow tips and tricks and cover best practices for creating a cyberpunk scene using V-Ray 5 for Maya.

V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max webinar >

In this 45-minute session, host Cory Holm will share workflow tips and tricks and cover best practices for creating an interior scene using V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max. You’ll learn about everything from shading and lighting to applying final touches in the redesigned V-Ray Frame Buffer.

V-Ray Next for Revit webinar >

Learn how the powerful new additions in V-Ray Next for Revit can enhance the design process, boost your productivity and help you achieve great-looking images right from your favourite BIM environment.

Topics include:

  • New Asset Editor
  • Appearance Manager
  • Randomize proxy objects
  • V-Ray Scene linking
  • Lighting Analysis
  • Revit Decals
  • Auto Exposure and White Balance
  • Faster rendering
  • Settings and work-sharing
  • Improved Denoising
V-Ray for Unreal webinar >

Discover how V-Ray for Unreal can revolutionize your rendering experience and find out about the powerful new features in the latest update.

Topics include:

  • Data preparation, including geometry checks and material optimizations
  • Exporting from content creation tools (3ds Max)
  • Importing with V-Ray for Unreal and Datasmith
  • Light setup
  • Look development
  • Light baking
  • Reflections and post-process effects
    ...and more!
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V-Ray Education webinar >

Join this webinar to discover the art of rendering and the career opportunities that lie ahead.

Topics include:

  • What is rendering?
  • V-Ray in Education
  • Rendering as a tool, rendering as a career
V-Ray Next for SketchUp webinar >

Learn how the powerful new additions in V-Ray Next for SketchUp deliver great-looking results right out of the box.

Topics include:

  • Asset Library Management
  • Improved lighting workflows
  • New denoising possibilities
  • Scene intelligence
  • 2x Faster V-Ray GPU
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V-Ray Next for Maya webinar >

Discover how the smarter, faster and more powerful features of V-Ray Next can supercharge your Maya workflow.

Topics include:

  • Faster IPR
  • V-Ray GPU Next
  • AI Denoiser
  • Speed improvements

And much more!

V-Ray for SketchUp — Setting up a day scene from start to finish >

In this 45-minute session, host Anastasia Zhivaeva will cover all the essential steps and best practices for creating a V-Ray for SketchUp project from scratch.

Topics covered:

  • The camera
  • The environment
  • Lighting
  • Shading
  • Atmospheric effects
  • Rendering settings
  • Frame buffer functions
  • Render elements and compositing
A V-Ray for Rhino project from start to finish >

In this 45-minute webinar, CG Specialist Anastasia Zhivaeva explains the process of setting up a project in simple steps.

Topics covered:

  • The camera
  • The environment
  • Lighting
  • Shading
  • Atmospheric effects
  • Rendering settings
  • Frame Buffer functionalities
  • Render Elements and compositing
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V-Ray Next for 3ds Max webinar >

Learn how the incredible toolset of V-Ray Next makes it quicker and easier to get stunning results.

Topics covered:

  • Adaptive Dome Light
  • Point & shoot camera
  • 2X faster GPU rendering
  • GPU-accelerated volume rendering
  • Interactive AI Denoiser
  • Lighting Analysis tools
  • Substance Designer and PBR workflow
V-Ray 3.6 for Revit webinar >

Get the lowdown on V-Ray 3.6 for Revit’s supercharged new features.

Topics covered:

  • New Asset Browser
  • V-Ray Proxies
  • V-Ray Grass & Fur
  • Hybrid Rendering
  • V-Ray for Revit’s new UI
  • Faster Scene Export
V-Ray 3.6 for Rhino webinar >

Learn how the latest V-Ray tech can help you create photorealistic imagery quickly and easily.

Topics covered:

  • GPU & Hybrid Rendering
  • Adaptive Lights
  • Light instances
  • Animation
  • V-Ray for Grasshopper
  • Denoiser Improvements
  • VRscans support
V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp webinar >

See how V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp can boost your productivity in architecture and design projects.

Topics covered:

  • GPU Rendering & Hybrid Rendering
  • Adaptive Lights
  • Viewport Rendering
  • Smarter UI
  • VRscans Compatibility
V-Ray 3 for Rhino webinar >

V-Ray 3 for Rhino’s professional lighting and rendering tools are perfect for architects & product designers. See why.

Topics covered:

  • New UI
  • Material library
  • V-Ray Swarm
  • Denoiser
  • Virtual Reality
  • Section cuts
  • Aerial perspective
  • Grass & fur
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V-Ray 3.5 for Maya webinar >

V-Ray 3.5 for Maya brings faster rendering, more responsive look development, and added realism to high-end VFX and animation projects.

Topics covered:

  • Adaptive Lights
  • V-Ray IPR
  • V-Ray Frame Buffer Tools
  • alSurface Material
  • GPU Rendering Improvements
  • Resumable Rendering
V-Ray 3 for SketchUp webinar >

V-Ray 3 for SketchUp has been redesigned from the ground up to help users focus on being creative without worrying about the technical stuff.

Topics covered:

  • New UI
  • Material library
  • V-Ray Swarm
  • Denoiser
  • One-click VR
  • Section cuts
  • Aerial perspective
  • Grass
© Dabarti Studio
V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max webinar >

Learn about the eight must-have features in V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max including Adaptive Lights, our new efficient lighting algorithm which drastically speeds up render times.

Topics covered:

  • Adaptive Lights
  • Resumable rendering
  • Interactive production rendering
  • GPU improvements
  • Live VR rendering
  • Glossy Fresnel
  • alSurface material
  • MDL materials
  • Interactive lens effects

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