RenderMan® Bridge Tools
Production Proven Tools for Artists
RenderMan now supports more 3D applications than ever before, allowing you to get creative with your favorite tools.
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Maya
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Houdini
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Katana
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Blender
Production Technology
RenderMan bridge tools are used and tested by the biggest VFX and animation studios in the world.
Fine Tuned and Battle Tested
RenderMan Bridge Tools are custom made for every application and made in collaboration with the application's developers, making the most efficient use of the applications interface.
They are used to create some of the most ambitious VFX and animation shots in the business, creating an ecosystem for incredibly demanding app development, which leads to cutting edge technology and stability depended upon by the biggest blockbusters.
Loki © Disney.
Blender
Completely rewritten and officially supported to take advantage of the full RenderMan 24 toolset, including XPU and Stylized Looks.
Made for Creatives
From the biggest studios in the world to the single artist, each RenderMan bridge tool is made with artists in mind, giving your creative ambitions direct access to Pixar's toolbox.
Pixar Tools
RenderMan includes the same tools used at Pixar productions, including materials, lights, and integrators, for the most cutting-edge images.
RenderMan Art Challenges
Check out the amazing work done by single artists on our Art Challenges.
Learn MoreArtwork by Vishwesh Taskar. Walking Teapot by Dylan Sisson. MAT by Damien Levaufre © Disney/Pixar - RenderMan "The Iconoclasts" Art Challenge
"This is a fantastic release that introduces a whole new degree of customization. It's not only the most consistent renderer engine I ever used, it's now the most versatile one."
-Fabio Sciedlarczyk, Look Development Artist, Mikros
Highlights
- RenderMan XPU™
- MaterialX Lama, Layerable Materials
- Stylized Looks for non-photorealistic rendering
- Live statistics
- Run RenderMan Inside the Viewport
- Interactive Shading, Lighting, and Geometry Edits
- Interactive editing of AOVs and LPEs
- Interactive Displacement Edits
- Light and Pattern Baking
- Pixar Surface Material approximation for Mari
- Plugin Support (Shave and Haircut, Yeti, Golaem, Realflow...)
- Image Checkpointing
- Advanced Pixar Patterns
- Self-configuring installation with multi-version support
- Dynamic Shader Binding
- Easy Deep Data Output
- OpenSubdiv
- Precompiled and Fast Shading
- Arbitrary Variables via Tokens
- Comprehensive Python API
- For more see the Release Notes
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| RenderMan XPU™ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| MaterialX Lama / Layered Materials | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Stylized Looks | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Bump Roughness | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| OpenColorIO - ACES | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Native USD Support | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Viewport Rendering | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Light and Pattern Baking | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Offline and Optix Denoiser | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Image Checkpointing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| SIMD Hardware Accelerated OSL | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| MNEE & Manifold Walk | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Pixar Surface Material System | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| OpenVDB Support | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| RIB & Alembic Archives | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| RiProcedural Plug-ins | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Particles | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Fur and Hair | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Native Curve Rendering | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Native NURBS Rendering | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Advanced Pixar Patterns | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Dynamic Shader Binding | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Interactive Hair Grooming | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Interactive UV Editing | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Featured Artists
Check out what artists around the world are doing with RenderMan
