Features

Feature Spotlight

Take a look at some of the fundamentals that make Pixar's RenderMan exceptional for production rendering.

  1. Performance
  2. Motion Blur & Depth of Field
  3. Fur & Hair
  4. Displacements

 

More Production Features ...

Pixar's RenderMan has advanced features for creating visual effects, and because Pixar is also a movie studio, the core rendering technology has been proven on some of the most demanding 3D productions ever realized.

  • Memory efficiency (see REYES algorithm)
  • Camera Controls
    • Fast 3D motion blur
    • Shutter Timing
    • True 3d depth-of-field
    • Bokeh controls
  • Particles
    • Points (riPoints)
    • Spheres (riSphere)
    • Implicit surfaces (riBlobby)
  • Hierarchical subdivision surfaces
  • Curve rendering (riCurve primitive)
  • Hair and fur (riCurve primitive)
  • High quality displacements (8, 16, and 32 bit)
  • Deep shadows (Transparent and filtered)
  • Subsurface Scattering (Point based)
  • Global Illumination
    • Ambient Occlusion (ray traced & point based)
    • Color Bleeding (ray traced & point based)
    • Image Based Lighting (HDRI)
    • Caustics (photon based)
    • Ray traced area lights
  • Pixar's Organized Point Clouds (with API)
  • Pixar's Brick Maps (with API)
  • Ray Tracing
    • Hybrid system (sub-system of RSL)
    • Programmable ray tracing
    • Ray tracing groups
  • CSG (Booleans in the renderer)
  • Secondary Outputs (AOVs)
  • OpenEXR (reading and writing)
  • And more ...

 

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