Best Visual Effects (VFX) Software for Maya

Chaos® V-Ray® is a 3D rendering plugin available for SketchUp, 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Rhino, Revit, and more. It is widely used in architectural visualization, advertising, and visual effects for film and television. With V-Ray, artists and designers can explore and share their projects with real-time ray tracing and render high-quality visualizations. V-Ray has a large community of users and is recognized for its incredible versatility. V-Ray has been honored with a Sci-Tech Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy Award® for bringing fully ray-traced photorealistic CGI to the film and television industries. For more information, please visit chaos.com

Ziva VFX is changing the way 3D characters are brought to life for films, games, and interactive experiences. With Ziva's intuitive toolset, artists can replicate the effects of physics and simulate any soft-tissue material, including muscles, fat, and skin to create blockbuster-quality assets with ease. Ziva VFX lets you simulate the materiality of any soft tissue, using intuitive parameters and real-world units. Everything was purpose-built for creature work. Ziva Anatomy Transfer tools let you replicate, warp, and retarget creatures rapidly, so you can adapt and multiply your existing creatures for infinite hero-quality characters. Character alterations can be applied retroactively at nearly anytime. Simply adapting the underlying anatomy of your characters will allow you to react faster to changes and last-minute decisions. Use multiple material types, producing robust motion even under large deformations, StVK, NeoHookean, co-rotational, anisotropic.