Maya Monday: V-Ray Next for Maya Tutorials

V-Ray Next for Maya came out several months ago and is speed, quality, power, creative control and smart integrations to your workflow. V-Ray Next is smarter, faster, and more powerful than ever with it’s powerful V-Ray Scene Intelligence, fully redesigned IPR, and 2X faster GPU production rendering.

Keep it simple: Rendering with V-Ray Next for Maya Tutorial

Chaos Group has a text-based tutorial on their website about rendering with V-Ray Next for Maya. In brief, it goes through the default V-Ray settings in Maya and what each of the settings mean. Finally, some beautiful art from the tutorial, below.

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V-Ray: How to use GPU in V-Ray Next for Maya

In a similar fashion, learn how V-Ray Next for Maya’s GPU can speed up your workflow using some of the new features for look development and production rendering, with this tutorial from Chaos Group.

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Stereoscopic 360 VR and V-Ray with V-Ray Next for Maya

Carlos Alvarez Velazquez makes fantastic tutorials. Moreover, he really breaks things down in an easy to understand manner,  The tutorial is in Spanish and subtitled in English. Via Lester Banks

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