Chaos Group

V-Ray Anniversary Challenge: A Decisive Moment

Chaos Group marks the beginning of V-Ray’s 10th Anniversary celebrations with a Challenge to all V-Ray users! We invite you to create an image to tell the story of a decisive moment.

Imagine the split second when everything changes. It could be an instant from history that altered everything on Earth. Or a pivotal point in time that changed you personally. Perhaps a knockout punch in a heavy weight championship. The last block placed on the Pyramids. The first human step on the moon. A gunshot, a wrong step, or a glance, the decisive moment when fate propelled the world to greatness or drove it to the point of destruction.

Using any application to model and V-Ray to render, we want you to illustrate that blink-of-an-eye moment.

We’ve invited some of the most prominent CG artists and industry influencers to evaluate the submissions:

•  Daniel Buck
•  Gus Capote
•  Jeff Mottle
•  Lon Grohs
•  Paul Hellard
•  Robert Nederhorst
•  Scott Metzger

The Challenge is organized in collaboration with CGSociety and will run between 15 May – 15 July. Sponsored by BOXX, NVIDIA, Maxon, 3dconnexion and Ballistic, the V-Ray Challenge offers a great prize pool.

Share your decisive moment with us! Enter the challenge.

Winner Announced in SketchUp Ur Space Competition

We are happy to share that Gerbe Dumahil was selected among 34 participants as the winner of the SketchUp Ur Space competition. His state-of-the-art interior design is awarded with the Chaos Group prize – a V-Ray for SketchUp license.

SketchUp is a powerful 3D application. It gets even more powerful when used together with a rendering plug-in. There are quite a numerous number of available rendering engines for SketchUp but I choose V-Ray. V-Ray is for me, the best rendering engine. It gives me the quality that I want and the quality that the client needs.

Testimonial by Gerbe Dumahil - Architectural Visualizer and Graphics Designer

3rd Architectural Visualization Challenge “CityLIFE”

Chaos Group invites you to sign up for Ronen Bekerman’s 3rd Architectural Visualization Challenge, exploring one of the most complex and vast subject matters in the architectural field, our urban way of living.

Chaos Group is pleased to support this event by providing licenses for V-Ray for 3ds Max, V-Ray for Rhino and V-Ray for SketchUp.

The challengers’ mission is to showcase CityLIFE in two different seasons – summer, autumn, winter or spring. Besides the Still Image category, there are also Real-Time and 2D Concept Art categories.

You are encouraged to think beyond the traditional or conventional interpretations and methods of architectural visualization, and while photo-realness is not the aim, it certainly might be a mean to an end.

Deadline for submissions: 20 December 2011

Learn more at the Competition’s website

Winners Announced in T-Splines Design Contest

The T-Splines 2011 Contest, Make the World a Better Place attracted over 80 entries from around the globe in the categories Architecture, Transit, Jewelry, Consumer Product, and Miscellaneous. We are proud to share that V-Ray was extensively used across the submissions, and most notably the three winning Jewelry pieces and the winning Miscellaneous piece.

This year, Chaos Group is providing the award in the Miscellaneous category. A V-Ray for Rhino license goes to Fernando Montalvo of Córdoba, Argentina for his futuristic Roboto 1.0 design.

We would like to thank T-Splines for organizing this contest and sharing design inspiration from all around the world. Congratulations go to all the participants who envisioned the world as a better place through their innovative 3D designs.

Make the world a better place- T-Splines Design Contest 2011

The T-Splines Design Contest 2011, Make the World a Better Place, is designed to promote the creation of new and innovative 3D designs using T-Splines for Rhino and tsElements for SolidWorks. All design entries should reflect the theme of the contest, demonstrating a potential to improve the world in some way.

Prizes will be awarded to those individuals or teams who submit the best designs, as measured by the judging criteria. V-Ray for Rhino full commercial license is included in the $15,000 prize list.

Check out rules and vast array of categories you can compete in.

IT'S ART CG Competition: Human Nature

Submit your 3D Stills Pictures or Animations and get a chance to win a V-Ray 2.0 license!

The contest would like to encourage anyone inspired by the Human Nature topic to submit their concepts and portray what sort of situation, real or imaginary, the concept inspired you to create. Rules, Deadlines and more information, available at IT’S ART.