In order to help facilitate a quality education for students in visualization, Chaos Group strives to provide tools for educators and academic institutions. In addition, to discount pricing for students, educators, and schools they have also been developing courseware. With lectures, lesson plans, practice assignments, and more, courseware is an excellent resource now available for educators as part of the V-Ray Academic Starter Pack.

What Courseware is Available?

Chaos Group recently announced their new V-Ray for 3ds Max Courseware program for Educators. They also have a V-Ray for Maya Courseware program available. Both are part of their offerings for academic institutions. These high-quality programs are designed to make it easy for educators to set up classes that cover animation, architectural visualization, VFX, product design, and more using proven methodology. This methodology breaks down each lesson into three parts. Every lesson begins with a lecture to introduce the topic and provides real world correlations. Then educator-led demonstrations put the topics into action. Finally, hands-on activities reinforce learning by allowing students to gain experience by reproducing what they’ve learned.

“Chaos Group’s V-Ray for Maya Training Program for educators has been an amazing success here at the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA), leading to V-Ray becoming one of our principal renderers across both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses.”- Sofronis Efstathiou, Principal Lecturer and Festival Director, Bournemouth University, NCCA

How Can I Get V-Ray Courseware for Educators?

The V-Ray for 3ds Max and V-Ray for Maya Courseware programs are included with Chaos Group’s V-Ray Academic Starter Pack (which is also referred to as the University pack of licenses). This item is available to any academic institution that offers a degree, including public and private high schools, junior colleges, colleges, universities as well as career and technical schools. You can choose from options for one, two or all Chaos Group products. Select from V-Ray for 3ds Max, V-Ray for Maya, V-Ray for Revit, Phoenix FD for 3ds Max, Pdplayer, and more. Packages start at 15 seats. Get a quote for the V-Ray Academic starter pack at Studica. This product can only be used for educational purposes and includes access to both courseware programs.