We start by introducing V-Ray for Cinema 4D, guiding you through its tools and workflow. We'll also cover setting up ACES, which is used throughout the course.

The next section covers lighting fundamentals and techniques, featuring V-Ray’s vast array of tools. You'll explore Area, Mesh, IES, Dome Lights, and image-based lighting. We also dive into V-Ray Sun, Sky, procedural clouds, and volumetric effects like Environment Fog and Aerial Perspective. Plus, you'll master Light Mix for real-time lighting adjustments.

In Section 3, we dive into Global Illumination (GI). You'll learn how light behaves and how V-Ray simulates it with GI engines like brute force and light cache. We cover their pros, cons, and use in various lighting scenarios. Plus, we'll tackle flicker-free animations with GI and creating realistic caustics in V-Ray for Cinema 4D.

In the next section, we dive into V-Ray materials and maps. You’ll learn core shading fundamentals and advanced techniques. We cover V-Ray Material, bump and displacement mapping, realistic human skin, subsurface scattering, V-Ray Hair Next, daily shaders like plastic and metals, Car Paint, Blend materials, V-Ray Decal and more.

Then we learn all about cameras, camera types, depth of field, motion blur and everything that relates to working with cameras in V-Ray. First, we explore V-Ray Physical camera in depth, then we learn how to get Depth of field and Motion Blur, we learn about different camera types in V-Ray, lens effects, auto exposure and VR ready renders.

Section six dives into V-Ray rendering fundamentals, image sampling, and ray tracing. We explore ACES for color management and compare it to the default color manager. You'll learn about GPU and Hybrid Rendering, mastering V-Ray GPU, V-Ray Frame Buffer, and various denoising techniques. Finally, we cover Render elements, their applications, and post-compositing in Fusion.

The next section covers V-Ray Enmesh, Fur, Clipper, Particles, object properties, and Proxy. We delve into rendering OpenVDB and other volume formats to create realistic clouds, fire, smoke, and explosions. You'll also learn how to render Cinema 4D’s Pyro Simulations with V-Ray.

This update brings you the latest features of V-Ray 6.1 with 10 new videos and 75 minutes of fresh content. You'll dive into Chaos Scatter, V-Ray Toon, Light Decay, User Data Nodes, Reading Mograph and Field colors, Resumable Rendering, VFB Improvements, Viewport Interactive Rendering, V-Ray Profiler, the new procedural clouds’ contrails system, and the incredible Cylindrical Decal.

This update for V-Ray 6.2 includes 10 new videos and 45 minutes of content, covering switch material, the new V-Ray environment, importing V-Ray scenes as Cinema 4D objects, shading, lighting, camera improvements, stereoscopic 3D rendering, chromatic aberration, pyro simulations, and OSL material.