Chaos, a world leader in computer graphics technology providing 3D rendering and simulation software solutions globally, announced that their technology V-Ray has won an Engineering Emmy for ushering in new levels of photo realistic visual effects in episodic productions. The award will be presented by the Television Academy Engineering Committee live at their annual event on 21 October.
The award honours technical developments that are ‘so innovative in nature that they materially affect the production, recording, transmission, or reception of television’, Chaos said in an official statement.
“We are very honored by this award, and are happy to have played even a small part in helping artists achieve their visions. It feels like every year we see something new and exciting happening in episodics, which gives our team the inspiration we need to push the software even more.I am thankful for all the studios that have made V-Ray a part of their pipeline, and all the developers who work hard behind the scenes to make it even better. There’s more to come,” said Chaos CTO and co-founder Vlado Koylazov.
Hits like Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and Star Trek: Discovery is the magic of this amazing technology and since 2003 it has been used in hundreds of shows.
V-Ray ensures a seamless blend of real and virtual elements on screen through the use of physically based rendering and adaptive ray tracing. Optimized to handle large production scenes, V-Ray is used to render digital environments, digidoubles, creatures, vehicles and more in a highly efficient way, helping it take hold at prestigious studios like Digital Domain, Zoic Studios, Scanline VFX, FuseFX, Mackevision and more.
Sharing details about V-Ray uses and elating Chaos for their victory Digital Domain, digital effects supervisor Matt Smith said, “We use V-Ray every day to achieve the highest quality render output and iterate quickly on a very compressed delivery schedule. As we continue to bring film-quality VFX to episodics, V-Ray has become especially important to shows like Wandavision, where it helped us create over 300 shots for the season finale’s Witch and Vision battle scenes. Congratulations to Chaos, this is well deserved.”
“V-Ray has been at the core of Zoic’s CG render pipeline for the past 14 years, producing close to 75 million rendered frames for 1,893 episodes, for all the major studios including Disney, Netflix and Amazon. The support from Chaos is also first class. They’re always there to help implement new features and fixes to meet our needs, allowing us to focus on the creative and solve other pipeline issues,” said Zoic Studios CTO Saker Klippsten.
In 2017, Chaos’ physically based renderer, V-Ray, was honored with an Academy Award for its role in the widespread adoption of ray-traced rendering for motion pictures.
Animation and VFX showreels are surely a visual treat. Chaos group’s V-Ray Emmy reel comprising a two minute twelve second clip shows some marvelos uses of V-Ray.
All the works are breathtakingly beautiful with more photorealistic images and other production upgrades.
The visual effects using V-Ray has been done by various studios like Aaron Sims Creative, Digital Domain, Elastic, FuseFx, GhostVFX, Iloura, Mackevision, Pixomondo, Realtime, Scaline VFX and Zoic Studios.
