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Last updated: September 26, 2025  •   2 min read

# V-Ray wins Engineering Emmy® Award

**Summary:**

- Chaos' V-Ray wins an Engineering Emmy Award for its impact on broadcast television, recognized for its photorealistic rendering capabilities.
- V-Ray has been used in popular TV shows like Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, optimizing large production scenes and digital environments.
- Founder Vladimir Koylazov expressed gratitude to studios and developers for their contributions to V-Ray's success and ongoing innovation.
- Chaos has previously received accolades, including an Academy Award and Forbes' Company of the Year award, highlighting its industry influence.
- Craig Weiss from CBSVFX praised V-Ray for advancing visual effects, emphasizing its transformative role in the industry.

### Chaos collects Emmy Award.

We’ve won! Chaos is proud to announce that [V-Ray](https://chaos.com/vray), our photorealistic renderer, is among the winners of the [73rd Engineering Emmy Awards](https://www.emmys.com/news/awards-news/engineering-211007). Founder and CTO Vladimir “Vlado” Koylazov attended the ceremony in person at the JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles, with members of Chaos’ US team.

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Used on hundreds of shows since 2003, including *Game of Thrones*, *Stranger Things* and *Star Trek: Discovery*, V-Ray is optimized to handle large production scenes. V-Ray is used to render digital environments, digidoubles, creatures, vehicles and more in a highly efficient way, helping it take hold at prestigious studios like Digital Domain, Zoic Studios, Scanline VFX, FuseFX, Mackevision, and more.

Just some of the TV series that have used V-Ray to create astounding VFX.

“We are very honored by this award, and are happy to have played even a small part in helping artists achieve their visions. It feels like every year we see something new and exciting happening in episodics, which gives our team the inspiration we need to push the software even more,” said Vlado. “I am thankful for all the studios that have made V-Ray a part of their pipeline, and all the developers who work hard behind the scenes to make it even better. There’s more to come.”

It’s not the first trophy on Chaos’ shelf. In 2017, we were honored with an Academy Award, and we picked up 2021’s [“Company of the Year” at the Forbes Business Awards](https://amcham.bg/2021/04/29/chaos-announced-as-company-of-the-year-at-forbes-business-awards-2021/).

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Vladimir "Vlado" Koylazov at the Petersen Automotive Museum's Bond in Motion exhibition before the Emmy Awards.

Chaos' Philip Miller, Lon Grohs, Melissa Knight, Vladimir Koylazov, David Tracy, and Chris Nichols at the Petersen Automotive Museum's Bond in Motion exhibition before the Emmy Awards

Chaos' David Tracy, Chris Nichols, Lon Grohs, Vladimir Koylazov, and Philip Miller.

### CBSVFX’s Craig Weiss on Chaos’ win

V-Ray’s Emmy Award came as a complete surprise to Chaos. In CG Garage podcast #345, Chris is joined by CBSVFX’s Craig Weiss, who helped secure V-Ray’s victory via his position on the Emmy Engineering Awards board.

“As a committee, we agreed that we wanted to honor V-Ray with an Engineering Emmy for its contribution to broadcast television,” says Craig on the podcast. “It’s changed the game for visual effects. My hat’s off to \[Chaos\] for continually advancing state of the art of the software and allowing us to put those types of images on the screen.”

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