V-Ray 3.5 for Maya has been released by Chaos Group. V-Ray 3.5 uses adaptive lighting, which makes the 3d animation characters highly defined and it's quite fast. A new addition is that of Adaptive Lights, a fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights. With Adaptive Lights, V-Ray determines which light sources are most important, so ray-tracing calculations are focused and more precise. When tested on multiple CPU and GPU scenes, render times were typically two to seven times faster.
“At Digital Domain, we used Adaptive...