RenderMan for Maya

RenderMan for Everyone

RenderMan® for Maya delivers all of RenderMan's legendary performance and quality to provide your creations with that distinctive visual edge. Combined with an intuitive workflow, RenderMan for Maya sets a new standard for rendering high-quality visual effects and animation. RenderMan for Maya is a plug-in that offers a lot of performance.

Work in Maya. Render with RenderMan

Easy Integration

RenderMan for Maya brings RenderMan's speed, power, and stability directly to Maya users, without the added cost and complexities of our premium, high-end products, RenderMan Pro Server and RenderMan Studio. If you've been looking for an affordable, easy way to get RenderMan, your wait is over.

 

FEATURES

Ease of Use

    1. Clean integration with Maya

    2. Software rendering of all Maya Particles

    3. Automatically render Maya Fur and Hair

    4. Render Maya Material networks, PaintFX, and much more!

Render particles in software

Quality

    1. World renowned cinematic-quality imagery

    2. High quality anti-aliasing for minimal artifacts 

Power

Features

    1. "Deep Shadow" technology

    2. Advanced subsurface scattering 

    3. Point based ambient occlusion and global illumination

    4. Fast HDRI and image based lighting effects

    5. Texture baking

    6. Camera effects, including bokeh and shutter timing

    7. Photon based caustics

    8. Render time CSG boolean operations

    9. Production statistics

    10. And more . . .

 

Create special features, like Deep Shadows


Questions? Read the Product FAQ

Direct connection to Maya

Get Started Right Away

RenderMan for Maya takes all your Maya scene data — Maya Materials, lights, geometry, Maya Fur, particles, Maya Hair, et cetera — and renders them with Pixar's RenderMan. Simply select “RenderMan” from the 'Render using' menu and your image will appear in the Maya 'Render View' window. Get the same production-quality motion blur and displacements, ambient occlusion, 3D caching and baking, not to mention the legendary power, speed, and stability of Pixar's RenderMan, right there in the Maya UI. 

 

Render Maya Fur

Special RenderMan Features

Maya users can enjoy the same global illumination and subsurface scattering effects, deep shadows, and super-efficient subdivision schemes available in RenderMan Pro Server. Ray-tracing effects, such as global illumination, and other effects, like motion blur, are set up via the Render Globals. Other RenderMan features, like Deep Shadows or subsurface scattering, are attached directly to Maya nodes.

RenderMan for Maya was designed with ease-of-use and affordability in mind, without sacrificing the most important features of RenderMan: speed, stability, and quality. Those who require the versatility of RIB in and out, the robust, highly programmable shading tools in Slim, or the dynamic capabilities of plug-in procedurals are encouraged to use our premium, high-end products: RenderMan Studio and RenderMan Pro Server. If, however, you're looking for the speed and quality of Pixar's RenderMan, fully integrated with Maya, check out RenderMan for Maya.

 

 

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