3D CG Rendering News

Thomas Suurland has released a new collection of hires HDRIs + matching backplates for virtual car photography. All HDRi maps are in 11500x5750 and all backplates are in 4368x2912. All hdri-locations comes with 1 HDRi map and several backplates so multiple images can be produced from each location. Each location sells for €120 Check out the examples on the site: http://www.hdri-locations.com/

Evermotion's Archexteriors vol. 1 is now available in a Cinema 4D version. The DVD contains 10 textured and ready to render scenes using the VRaySun, VRaySky and the VRayPhysicalCam. Requires Cinema4D 10 or higher and Vray 1.08 http://evermotion.org/shop_display_item.php?item=289

Leo Burnett have put together a behind the scenes/making of video of SWAY's Pontiac SpyHunter spot. See the video here: http://jalopnik.com/386152/the-making-of-the-pontiac-g8-spy-hunter-commercial-or Previous news about the commercial spots here: http://vray.info/news/n0228.asp

Service Pack 2 for VRay 1.50 is now available for download. Log in to your account at http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/downloads.html?s=v-ray to download. Build 1.50.SP2 (11 April 2008 ) (cumulative changelog since build 1.50.SP1) =================== New features: (*) Compatibility with 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max Design 2009; (*) Support for animated deforming meshes to .vrmesh files and the VRayPr... continues

The technical director Dmitry Vinnik has posted his reel, showing some very impressive lighting and rendering work. A lot of the shots were rendered with VRay for Max or VRay for Maya. Shot Breakdown Click below to download the showreel: SD QUICKTIME 50 MB SD XVID AVI 127MB HIGHRES SD XVID AVI 50MB LOWRES

Chaos Group have released their redesigned website. The image gallery will have its own site and will be released at a later date. www.chaosgroup.com

Realtime:uk recently did all the the race footage in the Motorstorm 2 Debut Trailer. All the race footage shots were rendered in VRay using the sun/sky system and physical cameras for motion blur. The trees close to the track are VRay proxies, while distant trees are billboards. View the trailer here: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/31751.html Source and more images: Chaos Group forum threa... continues

Autodesk has started shipping the latest version(s) of 3ds Max. For a list of new features: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5659451 Feature videos: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=11007364 Chaos Group will have a 3ds Max 2009 build of VRay available for download shortly (within about a week ).

A Blender/VRay intergration is currently in development by Andrey M. Izrantsev. This is a two phase project, with the first, and current, phase being a python based VRay scene exporter, and the second phase being a C based full integration. For more details and downloads see the project website: http://blender.lugr.ru/

The team at Mentalboutmax have released the first Modules in their NEW Vray Overview Series. Following the success of their Video Training Modules for Mental Ray, the team at MBM have added the brand new ‘Overview Series’ for the VRay Rendering engine. As with their Mental Ray and 3Ds Max General modules, the concept is to build a progressive library of knowledge that will help open up the pow... continues