The Full Enchilada

One of the fastest (if not ‘the’ fastest) 3D renderers in the world, V-Ray for free open source Blender 3D brings the power and speed of V-Ray Raytracing to one of the most powerful modeling and 3d animation systems available.
V-Ray for Blender is currently in
development

What happens when you combine the world’s most powerful rendering engine
with the world’s most beloved open source 3D content creation suite? You get V-Ray
for Blender! Artists around the world are salivating at the mere thought
of taking their Blender scenes to the next level with the worlds fastest
photo-realistic rendering system.

Developer: Andrey M. Izrantsev
(aka bdancer)

Image by Bertrand Benoit

Image by Bertrand Benoit

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I will be adding various worthy 3d images, artistic yet photo realistic (ie lighting textures etc)….. for now here’s some nice stuff from good ‘ol PovRay (I’ll be adding some from finalrender, fryrenderer, and others not sure if to same page yet..) :

The images presented on this page show a selection of the types of art that can be
created using POV-Ray.

This POV-Ray picture of a beach of pebbles was generated entirely using POV code. No modelers were used at all. The image features radiosity and focal blur to give it that realistic feel, and took 4.5 days to render on an Athlon 5600+.

Study in atmospheric media and in different ways of “planting” using the trace command.

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Another great 3D render system similar to V-Ray is Indigo, which is ahead of Vray in its support for Blender.