Fourth annual event offers exclusive behind-the-scenes look at VFX for hit films, games and television; sneak peek at live VR rendering tech.
The two-day event will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Room 205A; presentations begin Tuesday, July 26 at 10:00 a.m. While the V-Ray Days sessions are open to all attendees, seating is limited and advanced registration is highly recommended. Due to the exclusive content being shown, recording is not permitted.
V-Ray Days Schedule:
Tuesday, July 26
- 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – FuseFX, “American Horror Story” and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Encore VFX, “The Flash”
- 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Digital Domain, “Golden Age of Pirates”
- 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Nozon, PresenZ VR
- 4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. – Square Enix, “Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV”
Wednesday, July 27
- 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Pixomondo, Large format VFX for theme park ride films
- 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Blur Studio, “Halo Wars 2”
- 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Atomic Fiction, “Deadpool”
- 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Scanline VFX, “San Andreas” and “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
Additional SIGGRAPH presentations:
A special presentation on the latest V-Ray tech will be led by Chaos Group’s co-founder and head of software development, Vladimir Koylazov. Scheduled for July 26 at 3 p.m., “Vlado in Renderland” will also mark the debut of a new live VR rendering solution currently under development. Using a headset and progressive rendering, artists and designers will be able to author VR content in a live environment, gaining instant feedback on any change they make. This technology will also be a key part of Chaos Group’s presentation at the NVIDIA Limelight event, to be held in Ballroom C of the Hilton Anaheim on July 26, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Chaos Group is presenting at SIGGRAPH’s Scratching the Surface series, which highlights new tech papers and achievements. The talk will be on a new stochastic algorithm that makes rendering mirror-like flakes for materials like car paint, sand, and snow faster, more memory-efficient and capable of GPU-acceleration. The Scratching the Surface event is set for July 28, from 3:45 – 5:15 p.m. in Ballroom B of the Anaheim Convention Center.
For more details on the V-Ray Days presentations, please visit Chaos Group’s SIGGRAPH website. Seating is limited, registration is open now.
Source: Chaos Group
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
