Seeing from the enviorment, he is using HDRI indeed
Nice render. now the next step is to just play around with simple objects and Vray materials to see what happens. Vray is an engine you should really first get the hang of by experimenting and saving your template scenes. for example, try different lightning settings, or materials, and save those as a template to use later
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