Q: V-Ray is not only a render engine but it comes also with a lot of features like: shadings or many effects. Which one is the „breakthrough“ in your opinion?
To name a few, V-Ray offers fast hair and fur rendering, a great sub-surface scattering shader, and a special car paint material which allows artists to create photo realistic cars quickly and easily.
Q: Where is V-Ray mostly used? (Visualizations, Architecture, VFX ...)
Initially, V-Ray was used mainly for architectural visualisation, but once it became available for a wider selection of modelling platforms (such as Maya, Softimage, Rhino and SketchUp), it quickly became the renderer of choice for many professionals in the film and visual effects industry, advertising, product design, and automotive design.
Q: Are you proud at any special moment where V-Ray was used?
We are proud with all our clients – freelance artists, small boutique studios and large production houses.They all help the development of our product and we hope that in turn, we are able to provide them with the best tools for their workflows. A recent moment we took a lot of pride in was the Oscar award that one of our clients Pixomondo won in the Best Visual Effects category.
Q: Where is the advantage of V-Ray comparing to other renderers on the market? Why should people use your product?
V-Ray is very well integrated inside the applications that we support (Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya etc.) and implements a wide range of features to cover most of the rendering needs for any kind of users in any field. We have also tried to make all features directly available to artists so that custom programming is not required to make the most out of it. At the same time, the V-Ray SDK is there for those that need to expand V-Ray and customize it for their particular pipeline.
Q: What are your plans for the future? What can we expect?
Our team is currently developing V-Ray 3.0 which will introduce a great selection of new features. The release is scheduled for H1 2013.
Q: A little bit off topic but can you remember any funny story which happened to you at work? (Any prank or something like that)
I still remember when one of the first versions of V-Ray suddenly stopped working on New Year's Day. So we got a text message from one of our clients that said: “Happy New Year and V-Ray isn't working”. It turned out that we had coded only eleven months per year in a particular place in the code :) Of course we had to release an urgent patch the same day.