Vray promotion for freelancers

[Andy Moorer]

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/usa_promo.html

FYI chaos group is promoting a deal on Vray for freelancers in the US worth looking at.

Discussion... I wish Arnold was even available at any kind of reasonable cost for freelancers. 

The majority of the studios I encounter use one or the other and I am noticing a trend where boutique

studios which would like to use Arnold instead turn to Vray simply because of the high cost. I'm sure 

SolidAngle has their reasons but I note that ChaosGroup is making very serious efforts to be

competitive and has gained some traction with this kind of outreach. Vray is quite a capable

renderer which I've enjoyed using, I just wish the price difference didn't become the basis for choosing

between the two.

All that aside, kudos to ChaosGroup for their efforts to support Softimage and the freelance community!

[Javier Vega]

That sounds very nice!

Javier Vega
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[Tim Leydecker]

The Vray offer means 1 interactive/GUI license plus 10 rendernodes for the 3dsMax and Maya
versions or 1 interactive/GUI license and 5 rendernodes for the Softimage version, right?

That´s a great offer.

I have hopes Chaosgroup will unify their licensing by bringing all three VRay versions on par,
and will at some point sell only one version of Vray including the three render plugins/addons.

Personally, I can´t justify buying three VRay GUI licenses to get at 1 interactive license
for each of the major 3D programs even if that would mean I´d have a total of 25 rendernode licenses.

I have 2 boxes. Both are old. I´m getting old, too. Too much hassle to maintain a farm in my living room.

The kitchen would be an option.

I would really love to see Chaosgroup cook up a bundle of all three plus 5 or 10 rendernodes for a freelancer dish.

Probably wouldn´t even need to run an interactive/GUI license simultaneously in 3dsMax/Maya/Softimage,
e.g. could live with one license as long as I could switch 3d apps on demand or job requirements.

I´d expect to pay fairly in the range of 1 current license offer plus maybe 25-50 percent to be free for all.

That´d be 1250-1500 for all you can eat including 5-10 rendernodes.

That´d great and probably as easy to do as revising the licensing model, e.g. not even neccessary to get
all three plugins on par?

Cheers,

tim

[Pingo van der Brinkloev]

Solidangle recently changed their policy which made it possible to buy "only" one license - which makes it within price range.

Cheers!

Pingo

[Massimo Galluzzo]

Is this public? Because on their website there is still nothing official. Just a form to contact them.

 

cheers

 

Massimo

[Pingo van der Brinkloev]

I think so... Try contacting them :)

Pingo

[Cristobal Infante]

It's pretty difficult to get anything done with 1 arnold license though, unless you have some sort of super monster machine ;)

[Daniel H]

Re: "Solidangle recently changed their policy which made it possible to buy "only" one license - which makes it within price range." - Where did you see this at?

Daniel

VFXM

[Stephen Blair]

Hi

It's not public or official. Let's just say that sometimes there is flexibility. If you're seriously interested, use the form to contact us.