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Pixar RenderMan 21 ships with Pixar Shaders

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The latest release of Pixar's Renderman now contains some actual Pixar production assets like shaders, lights and patterns. Remember: RenderMan is free for non-commercial use now and even has a Blender integration!

For the first time, RenderMan now ships with the same shaders & lights used at Pixar, the very same that created Finding Dory … providing all RenderMan artists access to Pixar’s toolbox for lighting and look development, real tools that have already created amazingly sophisticated and complex imagery for feature film. In addition, this major release represents the maturation of the RIS rendering framework, which has been tested and proven on feature films such as Jungle Book and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, establishing RenderMan as the most advanced rendering platform currently available. Developed specifically for animation and VFX, this release is focused on expanding the creative horizons for storytelling while continuing to raise the bar for performance and quality. RenderMan is now more than just a renderer; it is a complete shading and lighting ecosystem, more powerful, accessible, and comprehensive than ever before.

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

5 Comments

  1. Does RenderMan run on GPU? I quickly searched their website but found only one reference to Denoising on GPU. If it's CPU only then I guess we'll all need a room full of i7 desktop PCs or a paid render farm to get anywhere near our current (Cycles) GPU performance?

  2. Free - Non-commercial version 20 is available.
    Free - Non-commercial version 21 will be available in the fall.

    • What URBUDDY said. You can try out the integration now using a free copy of 20 (or buy a license!). If you have a license there's a 21 branch of the addon available. All that you'll really need to change between 20 and 21 is the aforementioned shaders and lights!

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