Grant Warwick has made a video review of the new upcoming 3DS MAX 2012 by Autodesk. Check out this video, which was made on his machine with Nvidia GTX285 and i7 quad core running at 2.67GHz and 12GB RAM.

Watch this autodesk show reel animation! :)

NUMENUS’s mission is to create awesome rendering software which is both easy to use and great to work with. RenderGin is NUMENUS first product to deliver exactly that – stunning images in less time with no hassle, even if you are not an CG expert!

Load millions of polygons in seconds. Inspect your 3D data set with more than 100 millions polygons in realtime on standard hardware, including notebooks. Use your NURBS data directly without any time consuming triangulation. This and more is RenderGin: take a look and see for yourself.

Download DEMO.

V-Ray VFX Demo Reel 2010

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Thanks to Diego Reales for sharing his awesome visualizations with us. You can visit their website HERE.

Click the image to see full resolution composite!

Thanks to Diego Reales for sharing his awesome visualizations with us. You can visit their website HERE.

In this commercial for Travelers Insurance, a rabbit unwittingly stumbles across a menacing rattlesnake. The rattlesnake loses all credibility, however, when we see that it’s had a bogus repair job done on its rattle.

Someon Patarozliev started modeling this car for another scene and it was supposed to be just a low-poly half-finished model. The whole process took about 18-20 days from start to finish. There weren’t any blueprints available for this model at that time so he mostly used references and blueprints from a similar models. Original post here: link

Chaos group announced Vray 2 at Siggraph in Los Angeles, we informed you about this event a few days ago. Well, maybe you already know these awesome news. But did you notice also Vray RealTime GPU? Have a look at these images, showing some of possibilities of new Vray 2!

Phoenix FD – V-Ray dome light was used to light this scene.

Phoenix FD – PDplayer allows you to see Lightning variations.

V-Ray RT GPU is rendering this scene at 5000pix resolution, maintaining interactive feedback. Running on three GeForce 480 cards.

V-Ray RT in Maya. Awaiting Beta on August 16th!

V-Ray 2.0: V-Ray material now supports Physically correct dispersion. Excellent!

V-Ray 2.0: VRayDistanceTex. This feature is very similar to VRayDirt, but it is calculated before the raytracing itself. This texture can be used to control displacement, fur length etc.

V-Ray 2.0: V-Ray Lens Effects now support Bloom.

V-Ray 2.0: V-Ray Lens Effects – Glare. Lens Effects can be correctly calculated based on your V-Ray camera lens setup. Another step to better photo realistic visualizations!

[image courtesy: vray.info]

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Thanks to Diego Reales for sharing his awesome visualizations with us. You can visit their website HERE.