Other than the V-Ray forum, which is priceless, what other forums and/or BLOGs are a must to participle in?
my 2nd most visited forum is cgtalk. But that is mainly for general info gathering. On the odd occation I do post max questions there however. Pretty good info there overall. Sometimes cgarena has some good tutorials and info for max and other.
I hardly ever visit “the area” from autodesk. Those forums I feel sucks. But the blogs from the autodesk guys are filled with good info and tutorials sometimes.
Let me invite you to visit my Blog & Forums at www.ronenbekerman.com… You decide if it is good enough for you and a must to keep visiting. I’d like to think it is 
Architectural Visualization Challenge II - Hover is starting soon… so it’s going to be a lot of fun judging from the previous challenge.
I have been visiting your blog forever! It has always been one of my favorites.
I’ll second that!