Jan 29, 2012

CoreCG, an R&D company specializing in creative solutions for CG animation and visual effects, today released MentalCore –– a cross-platform, standalone plugin designed to help artists achieve maximum creativity and efficiency while using NVIDIA mental ray with Autodesk Maya. Incubated in a real-world production environment at Oktobor Animation, MentalCore...

Apr 29, 2011

PRESS RELEASE Chaos Group introduces V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Now with interactive rendering on CPU and GPU, V-Ray 2.0 for Maya has been officially released Sofia, Bulgaria – April 29, 2011 – Chaos Group is thrilled to announce that V-Ray 2.0 for Maya is now available! The complete, state-of-the-art rendering solution now comes with interactive rendering on GPU...

Apr 7, 2011

A preview of the live-action trailer Halo: Reach “Deliver Hope,” was recently acknowledged with a VES Award for outstanding visual effects. The project is part of Method Studios’ portfolio, who used V-Ray for Maya for the commercial of the well-known game. The full interview with Scott Metzger, VFX Artist at Method Studios, can be found at the...

Dec 28, 2010

“Little funny creature seeking home” animation created in a variety of programs - modeled in Maya, rendered in Mental ray and video post-production was done in After Effects. Production of the animation took a month. The authors created the background and music using their own equipment, a few sounds were downloaded from...

Oct 25, 2010

Cebas has released a new version of finalRender Stage-2 for Maya, adding a new toolset intended to make shader authoring accessible even to non-TDs. The new ShaderGrind system – surely one of the best names for a new 3D technology in recent years – creates a kind of ‘empty shader’ to which properties can be assigned directly from the Attribute Editor....