RenderMan

RenderMan is an advanced technology from Pixar Animation Studios that offers rendering solutions for visual effects (VFX) and animation. According to the vendor, RenderMan is designed to deliver high-quality rendering for feature films, commercials, and other creative projects. It is suitable for companies of all sizes in the entertainment industry, including animation studios, VFX studios, and post-production houses. Professionals in 3D art, animation, VFX, film and television production, advertising, and game development can utilize RenderMan to achieve visually stunning effects in their projects.

Key Features

Feature Film Quality: RenderMan aims to deliver high-quality rendering for feature films and other creative projects, drawing on the fantastic features used in Pixar productions.

Upgrade: According to the vendor, RenderMan offers automatic upgrades to the latest version, ensuring users have access to the most advanced features and improvements.

World Class Support: RenderMan provides support through Pixar's new support platform, allowing users to file bugs and engage in discussions for prompt assistance.

Cutting-Edge Tools: RenderMan comes equipped with production tools developed by Pixar and ILM, including materials and light transport, eliminating the need for additional development.

Production Denoising: RenderMan includes a state-of-the-art Denoiser that uses machine learning and is trained with Pixar datasets, aiming to significantly reduce render times.

Limitless Creativity: RenderMan offers the Stylized Looks toolset, enabling artists to render images beyond photorealism and create images that resemble cartoons and illustrations.

Built for Collaboration: RenderMan ships with open-source tools and comprehensive APIs, enabling the development of complex collaborative environments for maximum pipeline flexibility.

Digital Humans: RenderMan includes MaterialX Lama, a layered material system developed by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to meet the needs of demanding visual effects, including digital human rendering.

Resource Agnostic: RenderMan XPU™ allows artists to speed up their look development workflows by harnessing the power of their GPU, aiming to provide perceptually identical results when rendering final frames.

Volumes & Particles: RenderMan excels at rendering various elements such as smoke, fire, clouds, and dust, including support for OpenVDB, aiming to provide better and faster results.