Rookie Awards Entrants Creating Beautiful Renders With V-Ray

This year’s Rookie Awards winners will be announced on July 27th, and will walk away with a staggering 18 products from Chaos. Including the V-Ray Education Collection, winners will also receive access to V-Ray rendering for all industry-leading 3D software packages.

From Photoreal rendering, real-time visualisation, and more, check out what talented digital artists are bringing to life with V-Ray.

Michael Assous - LikeTheMilkyWay

Created by: Michael Assous
Member Level: contender

Coming from a film background with a passion for fine art, especially anatomy, life drawing and traditional sculptures, I have develop a serious interest for hyper-realism, digital humans and character art which became my main focus during my education alongside grooming, the study of light and composition.

Xenomermaid

Created by: Pasquale Fantetti
Member Level: player

I have 3D sculpted a concept art by Oleg Bulakh.

Samwell Tarly

Created by: Laura Ramirez
Member Level: player

Character made for my advanced term at Think Tank Online. Based on the concept by Ramón Nuñez.

Akephalos

Created by: Fabio Gardin
Member Level: debut

Hi, this is my first personal project I did in the first module at Skyup Academy, from concept on paper to sculpting in Zbrush and rendered in Maya using V-Ray. It was fun.

Quidditch trunk - Harry Potter

Created by: Federico Del Sordo
Member Level: debut

Quidditch trunk, quaffles, bludgers and beater's bats from Hogwarts.

The Jade Cave - Think Tank Foundation Term Final

Created by: Chiara Cuccuru
Member Level: player

Happy to share "The Jade Cave" completed over 5 weeks as my Foundation term final at Think Tank. Throughout this project I really enjoyed testing my skills and understanding of the building blocks used to create 3D assets which we were introduced to this term from modeling and sculpting to texturing and look dev.

Realistic black grapes

Created by: Giulia Bilanzuoli
Member Level: debut

Realistic project made during the CGI master at SkyUp Academy. Modeled in Maya, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in V-Ray.

QY

Created by: Iulia T.
Member Level: player

Hi, this is my personal project following my master's degree at Skyup Academy. 2d Original concept by Zeng Qingyun. #maya, #Substance3DPainter and #V-Ray. Multiudim workflow.

Ancient chinese dragon, 鲤跃龙门

Created by: Federico Del Sordo
Member Level: debut

According to a chinese tradition, a carp that could swim upstream and then leap the falls of the Yellow River at Dragon Gate would be transformed into a dragon.

Little Hunter

Created by: Bo-Mi Tak
Member Level: contender

This is My first demo reel. I have been inspired by nature documentary. I tried to create a small world realistically.

Samurai helmet

Created by: Davide De Sensi
Member Level: player

Samurai helmet modeled in Maya and Zbrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter, shading and rendered in V-Ray, post production in Photoshop.

Nerubian Jungle

Created by: Carlos Burneo
Member Level: player

Original Concept by Brandon Le. "In this scene our hero explores deeper into the ancient city and finds that the people here are quite resourceful as they seem to have found a way to power their city structures."

Fantasy Treefrog

Created by: Francesca Colantonio
Member Level: debut

This is my first work on Zbrush, based on a concept made by Cindy Avelino. Rendered in Maya and V-Ray. I did it during my first weeks at Skyup Academy.

A Shell gas station

Created by: Giulia A. Romanelli
Member Level: rookie

A small Shell gas station out of nowhere.

Drive your Way

Created by: Alejandro Artunduaga
Member Level: player

As a 3D artist, I wanted to make a project where I could practice my modeling and texturing skills using one of the car models that I love the most, the 1960 Volkswagen Beetle. The render evokes an old racing car with all those awards, which are now just part of an old glory. I hope you like it.

Vintage Ticket Booth

Created by: Riccardo Polin
Member Level: contender

This is my second personal project at SkyUp Academy. I was tasked with producing this from a single reference image. Asset modeled with Autodesk Maya, textured on Adobe Substance 3D Painter and rendered in V-Ray.

Punk

Created by: Vanel Wafo
Member Level: contender

This work was inspired by the AFROPUNK FEST in Paris.

ARIS - Spaceship

Created by: Doyen Julien
Member Level: player

Hello, I present you ARIS, a spaceship that I had to realize for our group project OVER in 1st year of VFX specialization at New3dge, for this ship I based on concepts that I redesigned then modeled, and made the lookdev. I had 1 month to make it as realistic as possible.

Innocence

Created by: Claudia C. Lühl
Member Level: rookie

Another piece based on a painting by Magdalena Pagowska. It was a challenge to make a child since their skin and features are so much softer than adults. The groom of the sheep and the boy was done in xGen.

Bone Cultist

Created by: Valerio Barchi
Member Level: debut

Hello everyone this is my model made for the digital sculpting session in ZBrush through the Skyup Academy masterclass, sculpted in Zbrush and rendered in Maya with V-Ray.

Tiny Holiday Home

Created by: Rocío Jimena Sánchez
Member Level: contender

Project: Tiny Holiday Home by Chris Collaris Visualization: Rocío Jimena Sánchez.

Noisy Cricket

Created by: Roberto Dessalvi
Member Level: player

“I feel like I'm gonna break this damn thing! Noisy Cricket from Men In Black. Project completed during the CG masterclass at Skyup Academy. Modeled in Maya and Zbrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter and rendered in Maya and V-Ray.

The Iron Giant

Created by: Giulia Greggio
Member Level: player

This project is about one of my favourite and nostalgic cartoons, The Iron Giant. Me and Matteo Ascente had fun with the challenge of texturing him in different ways.

LIfe and Fate

Created by: Giulia A. Romanelli
Member Level: rookie

I have been working on this image for some weeks, focusing on 90s teen nostalgia in the Soviet Union, while I was reading "Life and Fate" by Vasilij Grossman. Then eventually war started and I felt this topic was more real and strong than just in a book. Hope you like the vintage details and mood!

LAZARUS

Created by: GUILHEM MAHOUDEAU
Member Level: contender

Graduation project made by Ines ALONSO DUMAITRE, Sofia GONZALEZ SAKSIDA, Ronan LEFEVRE, Guilhem MAHOUDEAU, Tom OHEIX, Loïc WEIL at New3dge.

Lighter

Created by: Luca Bertoncello
Member Level: debut

This is my second personal project at Skyup Academy. The goal was to make this lighter photorealistic. Modeled in Autodesk Maya. Textured in Adobe Substance 3D Painter. Rendered in V-Ray.

GUERLAIN - AQUA ALLEGORIA

Created by: Janis Benoit
Member Level: player

School Hard Modeling Project. The exercise was to choose a perfum and recreate it in 3D for packshot. My choise was to reproduce the "Aqua Allegoria" perfume of "Guerlain".

Lamborghini Car

Created by: Sameh Elsayed Salem
Member Level: rookie

Visualizing for an automotive racing car. exploring angles, colors and details under the lights.

Nature Pavilions

Created by: Pilar Salesa Calvo
Member Level: contender

Proyecto realizado para Trabajo Fin de Master en la Escuela Cice. Nature Pavilions basado en la idea original Atherton Pavilions de Feldman Architecture.

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