Pixar's Renderman

RenderMan stands as the world's most versatile renderer, boasting a new state-of-the-art framework optimized for physically-based rendering. Its scalability and flexibility make it a vital tool not only for Pixar's own feature films but also for rendering visual effects and animations across the industry.

RenderMan comes packed with cutting-edge tools straight from Pixar and ILM, including materials and light transport, eliminating the need for additional development. It ships with a powerful denoiser trained with Pixar datasets, significantly reducing render times and enhancing productivity.

For artists seeking to push creative boundaries, RenderMan offers the innovative Stylized Looks toolset, allowing for the creation of images beyond photorealism, including cartoons and illustrations. Its MaterialX Lama layered material system and support for USD Hydra facilitate collaboration and pipeline flexibility.

With RenderMan XPU™, artists can leverage the power of their GPU to speed up look development workflows while achieving perceptually identical results in final renders. RenderMan excels in rendering volumes and particles, offering enhanced support for smoke, fire, clouds, and OpenVDB.

Unique features such as checkpointing enable renders to be resumed seamlessly, enhancing the animation approval process. RenderMan also includes advanced hair shading materials developed at Pixar Animation Studios and supports interactive editing of AOV and LPE passes for robust compositing workflows.

RenderMan seamlessly integrates with leading Cloud Rendering solutions, providing extraordinary burst capacity for rendering needs. Its fully-featured camera simulates motion blur and depth-of-field akin to real-world cameras, ensuring synthetic images closely resemble conventionally filmed counterparts.

Included with every RenderMan purchase is Tractor, a modern and robust render management solution deployed at major VFX studios in the industry, further enhancing production workflows and scalability.