10 Years of V-Ray: A Decade of Rendering Innovation

March 15, 2012 by Leave a comment

The rapidly evolving Design Visualization community has seen many advancements in technology over the past 10 years. Today renderings are produced with more realism and detail than ever before. Chaos Group, the makers of the V-Ray render engine, have played a key role in that. Their plug-ins have pushed the boundaries of photo-realism in rendering and set new heights for rendering excellence.

V-Ray has transcended Architectural rendering and found it’s way into nearly every aspect of Design Visualization. From video games, to product design and major motion pictures, if it looks incredible, chances are it was made with V-Ray technology. This month we celebrate 10 years of V-Ray and pay tribute to Chaos Group who’s contributions have changed how the world renders.

ArchVision is a proud reseller of V-Ray products. Learn more about these exceptional tools here:
http://www.archvision.com/products/vray

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ArchVision Celebrates 20 years in the A/E/C industry

August 22, 2011 by Leave a comment

ArchVision crew circa 2002

Twenty years ago today, ArchVision was formed. It’s somewhat hard to grasp that it has been 20 years since we started this endeavor.

One of the very first projects we took on was a design visualization project rendered out on SGI boxes. Remember those?

In the process of model making and creating our own assets, we recognized a need for a better process. There had to be an easier, simpler process to place people in an animation. The RPC format was born. Soon after, RPC Sample Content CDs and Plug-ins began shipping with Autodesk products and native support evolved in a series of applications. We’d found our niche.

Our objective then was very similar to our objective now, provide users a solution to placing and managing their content assets into scenes using the RPC format. RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) in it’s basic form, is a collection of image assets that can be easily integrated into your scenes. Today, tens of thousands of RPC objects are in use and users continue to produce more everyday.

The tradeshow circuit, SIGGRAPH 2005.

We extend our appreciation to our many application partners who have adopted our technology over the years: Autodesk, Bentley, Robert McNeel & Associates, Maxon, Autodessys, Informatix, Luxology and many others. And most important, we extend our thanks to our tens of thousands of customers around the globe who integrate RPC technology into their workflow.

Happy Birthday ArchVision and to our founder, Randall Stevens!

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SIGGRAPH 2011: Showcases Emerging CG Technologies

August 9, 2011 by Leave a comment

Get a glimpse of emerging industry technologies at SIGGRAPH 2011. A variety of ArchVision friends and partners are participating at the SIGGRAPH 2011 Vancouver Make It Home Conference this week. If you are out and about, we encourage you stop by for the latest updates from some of our industry friends:

* Autodesk (#429) will host product demos and unveil a series of top user requests via The Area.
* Chaos Group (#135) will feature in-depth presentations of V-Ray for 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino and the latest in Phoenix FD 2.0 and presentations by industry experts (including Michael McCarthy, David Lesperance, Paul Ghezzo, Graham Fyffe and many others)
* Hayabusa (#679) will present RhinoAR – an AR plug-in for Rhinoceros and Hayabusa Renderer 2.0 for Rhino.
* Luxology (#631) will showcase modo® 501 and Luxology®s newly released Model Bashing Kit in the AMD booth.
* Next Limit Technologies (#625) will offer demos and insights into their cutting-edge simulation software for applications in 3D computer graphics, VFX, science, and engineering with RealFlow, Maxwell Render, and XFlow.
* Robert McNeel & Associates (#778) will provide insights and demos into Rhino and recent releases including, iRhino 3D for iPhone and iPad.

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