Pixar’s RenderMan today is responsible for generating more film pixels than every other solution combined and has become the standard for cinematic photorealism, used in 19 out of the last 21 Academy Award® winners for Visual Effects.Ĭontinuing to build on the advances embodied in the recent release of RenderMan 18.0, Pixar’s RenderMan team is currently developing new paradigms for rendering high-level visual effects, retaining all of the traditional strengths of RenderMan while establishing new levels of ease of use and accessibility. Over the past 25 years, RenderMan’s pioneering contributions in computer graphics have dramatically transformed the animation and visual effects industry, establishing an unparalleled body of knowledge, expertise, and production insight into all aspects of rendering at the highest levels of cinematic realism. Pixar’s RenderMan Studio 18 will be prominently featured, showcasing the most recent developments in Pixar’s rendering technology, including major advances in photorealistic global illumination. Pixar’s annual maintenance program benefits customers with access to ongoing support and free upgrades.EMERYVILLE, CA – Pixar Animation Studios has announced a celebration of 25 years of Pixar’s RenderMan to be held at SIGGRAPH 2013 featuring events that will include a commemorative Users Group Meeting and a number of special presentations demonstrating how RenderMan has been used in this year’s most successful visual effects blockbusters and animated features, including Pixar’s Monsters University (and the accompanying short The Blue Umbrella). Autodesk Maya compatibility is with versions 2013, 2013.5, 2014, and 2015. Current customers are encouraged to contact RenderMan Sales to join in the beta program. The new RenderMan will be released in the fall after SIGGRAPH 2014 and will be compatible with the following 64-bit operating systems: Mac OS 10.8 and 10.7, Windows 8, 7, and Vista, and Linux. The annual RenderMan Users Group meeting takes place on Wednesday August 13th at 6:30 pm in the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, 1133 Hastings Street. Pixar’s SIGGRAPH 2014 booth (#1033) in Vancouver features regular demonstrations of the RenderMan RIS architecture and features, illustrating its ease of use and flexibility, along with key partner presentations highlighting how RenderMan integrates into popular applications and workflows. With its new re-rendering capabilities we get completely interactive lighting and are actively building a pipeline around it.” “We have been working very closely with Pixar over the last 6 months and are consistently amazed by its performance and quality with our most complex production assets.

We achieve results straight out of the box that are unobtainable in other renderers.” Said Marc Bannister, Head of Lighting and Rendering, Double Negative. Its new APIs are completely open and make is possible to extend the renderer like never before. “The latest RenderMan brings a whole new era of rendering to VFX post production with its speed, flexibility and extensibility.

'I lit a heavy production scene with GI on my laptop and the RIS re-renderer smashed it!' The brand new RIS mode offers blazing fast, photorealistic artist friendly workflows,' said Tom Painter, Director, Bigman. 'If you think you know RenderMan then think again. “RIS represents a new phase in ray tracing for VFX and we are extremely happy with our plan to consolidate our rendering strategy around RenderMan including RenderMan for KATANA and RenderMan for Maya.” “The team at MPC has been working with the new RIS mode for a few months now and has been very impressed by the speed and level of customization it delivers,” said Damien Fagnou, Global Head of VFX Operations at MPC Film. Feedback about this generational shift in RenderMan is highly positive: RenderMan is currently in beta, with extensive testing underway in a wide variety of production environments, both large and small. RenderMan will be available to commercial users for only $495 per license and to non-commercial users for free. Scheduled for release in the fall of 2014, this landmark advancement in cinematic rendering features a state-of-the-art ray tracing engine with the fastest progressive re-rendering in the industry, delivering the most advanced and flexible solution for computing global illumination for VFX and animation.

EMERYVILLE, CA - Pixar Animation Studios is set to present its new RenderMan RIS rendering architecture at SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver.

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