I’ve noticed the last couple of months Corona is gaining popularity and just thought I’d start a thread where we introduce ourselves.
I’ve been working in 3D since 3dsmax 1.0, working in various companies in Australia.
Started off animating characters for realtime web movies, childrens DVD’s/TV shows, computer games.
Moved from the city to the coast and started a Architectural vis company, thats going through tough times, I hope that picks up soon.
So my main focus of interest became renderers, I own Maxwell, Fryrender, Thea Render, Vray and Mental ray.
I bumped into Ludvik on the mental ray forums probably a year or so ago and started discussing renderers.
I tried to get him interested in another renderer (which I won’t name cause I really like those guys and there product ).
Ludvik told me about Corona.
Well once I started playing around with Corona, I couldn’t stop, the pure speed and clean results of Global Illumination was just amazed me.
No slow speeds of unbiased rendering and no pissing around with light cache and irradiance map settings, it just works.
The development speed of Keymaster, he just keeps on adding features within weeks, sometimes days.
Translucency one week, Anisotropy the next, sun & sky, Scattering, proxies, DOF and the last month or two, displacement, motion blur, render elements !!!
This guy is on fire and its only in Alpha !!!
Well a nearly a year later and I’m still here using Corona.
Someone posted a couple of corona renderings in another (non-public) forum which rendered (according to the rendertime stamp) way to fast to be true. That’s when I started testing the alphaV2 build here and was blown away by it’s astonishing speed! Ok.. it’s just a couple of days ago, but I feel amazingly familiar with Corona already
I’m a more or less 3D-generalist working for a German Vfx-studio. I started doing 3D-stuff 8 years ago. 4 as a hobbyist, 4 as a professional. I prefer doing the “finishing” stuff. Lighting, Shading, rendering and compositing are the things I love to do. Furthermore I spend a lot of time in Tool development and scripting in common.
In Production I’ve been using Vray, Finalrender, Mentalray.
In the last couple of years I’ve been testing most of the renderers available for max, like Maxwell, Arion, Thea, Nox, etc but Corona is by far the most useful one already :).
I’m also a 3d generalist - started out doing exhibitions/retail, then moved to architectural, then the recession hit so anything I can get my hands on now.
Loocas is to blame for my presence here, having known him for a while from the finalrender forums. I’m also along with a few of you guys on adesk beta and have just been laughing my socks off at some ridiculous render times for iray with 7 high end GPU’s
Started rendering in Autocad and Autovision on a pentium 90 with 64mb ram, changing to max dos, then onwards. I use finalrender, mental ray, quicksilver, scanline - whatever suits the job, but am just about to strat the jcb job in corona once I get the legacy build for max 2013 to run on my old xeons!
Loving the speed of response on development, speed of renders and the lack of fecking about to get decent clean results - render once right, not 3 times shite
I’m “Martin Geupel”, I don’t write a lot in “the forums”, normally I’m nagging around here at the studio and Michael is the one who is getting the trouble after posting that stuff
Hi hi, my name is my nick
Im working in archviz business for Belgium/Germany agencies and private persons. I was working with Vray for few years, and then i moved to Indigo renderer (i was beta tester too).
I found Corona back in 2009 on our local forum (maxarea.com).
I found Corona few weeks ago as stable and production ready product. I was totally impressed and invested hours of my free time into this little dll.
Now, im totally in love with this engine. Its fast, friendly and im feel that i found my render engine finally! I was able to convert my old scenes to corona easily without any problems. Workflow is great, integration to max is perfect. In alpha stage, i can say, its one of the best renderers i tried and it seems that i`ll stick with Corona in future !
I already did 2 commercial projects in Corona without any Max crash
Found a link to this forum on max3d.pl - one of the biggest Polish cg forums.
I study computer graphics at a private school so I can use Corona on a legal, student version of 3ds max 2012 x64, which is awesome. It’s also insane that Corona is free but please don’t turn it into a commercial application like Crazybump did.
I’m planning to go commercial when its good enough, but there will always surely be some free builds (for example for students). Also, most active alpha/beta testers will have corona always for free.
Hi, I’m Andrea, an italian architect living in Barcelona.
I 'm an “archivizzer” and interested in generative architecture and performance based architectural modeling. I work usually with 3DS Max and Rhinoceros. During the long pauses between a work and another I usually work as generalist for myself or doing some architectural porn with rhinoceros and scripting.
Started CG in 1999-2000 at last year of high school with caligari trueSpace and Bryce3D (!!), then switched to max 5 at university (Radiosity and Light Tracer, they were like science fiction to me). Since 2005 started using vray, then in 2007 switched to Mental Ray, then another time to Vray this year due to inefficient light solutions during my thesys project (lot of indirect illumination and particular light condition, in the future I will make some tests with Corona…).
I discovered Corona this May, but never tried for lack of time, on Mental Ray forum thanks to Rawalanche comparisons during my “self thought” way to optimize render times.
This engine seems quite fast at this early stage, can’t imagine how fast could be in the future. And it’s less than 3 MB!!
Totally right for a commercial version at reasonable price.
I’m 23. I remember playing (literally!) with caligari truespace on a 166MHz pentium when I was in primary school. It was one of first 3d graphics apps I remember. Next ones were Bryce 5 (it was amazing), Poser, Max 5, some early versions of CAD (I’m not sure what it was but I remember makings lathes from splines and “baking” them as bitmaps). I’m proud to live in times where computer graphics achieved such progress.
Hi, my name is Max.
I learned about the Corona Renderer of Russian Forum 3dcenter. First I made a couple of tests, but thought that the rendering is flawed. But I did not leave a strange feeling (just magic) that this revolutionary product. I began to actively test the Corona renderer and realized that inner voice had not deceived me:)!
Now I get great pleasure from the use of the Corona renderer!
Many thanks and great respect Ondra for my new feelings!!!
I saw an exterior image on evermotion. It is now on the front page. This was a couple of months a go. I remember i did a google search and found almost nothing.
I dont remember exactly how I found the forum.
My name is Oleg, Helge or as it is called in Evrope.Ya first saw Corona Renderer in Russian 3d tsentre.Only used Vray, because I thought it best .. At the moment I am an active user of Corona. Sorry for my bad English.
