All posts by Tom Grimes

Know Your Devs – Jaroslav Křivánek

June 7, 2018Interview3D, AI, Caustics, Charles University, corona, Corona Renderer, Know Your Devs, Light Transport, Prague, R&D, rendering, ResearchTom Grimes

With Corona Renderer, you don’t just get the software, you also get the team behind it. Using the software will teach you about that, but how do you get to know about the team?

That’s the idea behind our “Know Your Devs” series of articles, where we invite users to post their questions for a particular developer, and this time it’s co-developer of Corona in the early days and current Research Lead….. Jaroslav Křivánek!

Read Jaroslav’s answers!
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JobsDev fair in Prague

June 1, 2018FeatureC++, C++ Jobs, Corona Renderer, Corona Renderer Jobs, Jobs Dev 2018 fair, Prague, Programmer JobsTom Grimes

As you know, we are currently on the look out for new C++ Developers (see our jobs page for more details!) As part of that ongoing search, we recently attended the JobsDev fair in Prague. As well as sharing details of our open positions, we also made sure the attendees had fun with a “Real or Render” game – you can read more about the fair, and see the images we used in the game in this edition of the blog!

Read about the Jobs Dev fair, and see the Real Or Render results!

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Pikcells – 15 years in the 3D industry

April 25, 2018Interview3D, 3ds max, corona, Corona Renderer, Interior Design, Pikcells, renderingTom Grimes

Pikcells are a design-driven studio, founded in Huddersfield, UK, in 2003. They mostly focus on high-end CGI for retail, furniture and interior room sets, along with lots of creative experimentation. We spoke with Creative Director Richard Benson about their 15 year journey and some of the changes they’ve gone through in that time!

Read about Pikcells

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One Day Love

April 17, 2018Animation, Interview, Making-of3ds max, Barak Feldman, compositing, concept art, corona, Corona Renderer, Daniella Boss, Ludvík Koutný, Martin Nabelek, Michael Mizrachi, music video, One Day Love, Tal Rachmin, VFX, Yali KerenTom Grimes

In past articles, we’ve explored the work that goes into VFX from the point of view of the CGI artist – this time though we take a different view of the process, talking with Michael Mizrachi about the director’s point of view when working with lots of CGI, as happened in his recent work on the music video for “One Day Love“.

One Day Love from Michael Mizrachi on Vimeo.

Know Your Devs – Ondra Karlik

March 28, 2018Interview3ds max, corona, Corona Renderer, Developer Q&A, history, Know Your Devs, Ondra Karlik, render legion, renderingTom Grimes

With Corona Renderer, you don’t just get the software, you also get the team behind it. Using the software will teach you about that, but how do you get to know about the team?

That question gave us a new idea, “Know Your Devs”, where we invite users to post their questions for a particular developer, starting with… Ondra Karlik!

Read Ondra’s answers!
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Juan Monsivais – visualizing the past, and training for the future

March 21, 2018Interview3D, 3ds max, Archaeology, corona, Corona Academy, Corona Renderer, Corona Workshop, Mesoamerican, Mexico, v-rayTom Grimes

Juan Monsivais is a 3D visualizer who recently became a Corona Certified Instructor. We spoke with him about how he got started in 3D, took a look at some of his artwork through the years with V-Ray and Corona Renderer, and asked him what his passions are and about his plans for the future of the training he offers!

Read what Juan had to tell us!
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Exhibition in Tehran

February 28, 2018Interview3ds max, Arasbaran Cultural Center, Arch-Viz, corona, Corona Renderer, Exhibition, Iran, rendering, TehranTom Grimes

Milad Kambari is a 3D visualizer based in Tehran who recently decided to host an exhibition there of 3D artwork made by various artists using Corona Renderer. We caught up with him to learn a little about him, to hear about how the exhibition went, and take a look at some of the renders that were (literally!) on show:

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Claudio Gallego – Babyfoot and Billiards

February 21, 2018Making-of3D, 3ds max, Babyfoot, Billiards, ChromeLight Studio, Claudio Gallego, Configurators, corona, Corona Renderer, Foosball, making of, rayswitch, rendering, Table Football, TouletTom Grimes

Claudio Gallego is a 3D artist who has been creating renders for online configuration tools that allow users to view a product with different styles, finishes and environments which they can pick for themselves. These require many tens of thousands of renders to handle all the possible combinations, and we spoke with him to find how he manages these kinds of projects!

Read how Claudio creates the renderings for the configuration tools!
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Behind the scenes at a render farm, with GarageFarm.NET

February 7, 2018Interview3D, 3ds max, corona, Corona Renderer, Garage Farm, GarageFarm, GarageFarm.NET, Render Farm, renderingTom Grimes

Whether 3D is your hobby or your career, it’s quite likely that at some point you have used a render farm. Have you ever wondered what it’s like behind the scenes, what goes into running one, and when people choose to turn to a render farm to help out? We spoke with Lucas B, Director of Operations at GarageFarm.NET to find out!

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Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 1 released!

February 5, 2018AnnouncementBeta 1, c4d, chaos group, company news, corona, Corona Renderer, Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D, Maxon Cinema 4D, sketchup, v-rayTom Grimes

We are pleased to announce that Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 1 is released!

The main purpose of Beta 1 was the implementation of Interactive Rendering. To be able to do that, we have rewritten a big part of the plugin (nearly every part of the plugin was touched), so it took quite a long time to stabilize all of Corona Renderer with so many changes.

The good news is that this big rewrite allowed us to implement Interactive Rendering that includes support of standard Cinema 4D and 3rd-party shaders, and that it also allowed us to quickly implement the Shadow Catcher and finally native Material stacking, so I am sure you’ll agree it was worth the wait!

During the development of Beta 1, we updated twice to the new core, first to 1.6 and then to 1.7.2, which is the most up-to-date core. We also released 21 daily builds, so we’d like to thank all of you for testing them and helping us to finally release the stable version!

Compared to the previous Alpha version, there have been a huge number of bug fixes (some longer-existing bugs still persist, but that’s why we’ve always had Beta 2 planned), and there have been a lot of new features and new functionality implemented.

Chaos Corona

Rendering is magic.