Renew or Move Non-Commercial RenderMan®

Please give us your feedback and renew your NCR license.
Your honest opinion helps us innovate in ways that reflect your needs.

Step-by-Step

*Any license can be moved, but only expired licenses can be renewed.

1. Complete Online Survey

Submit the survey and your expired license will be renewed. You also have the option to move your license to a new host.

2. Update Your License

Run the RenderMan Installer and enter your forum login and password.

3. Run RenderMan

Your license is renewed. Enjoy RenderMan for another 120 days!

Non-Commercial RenderMan

RenderMan is free for all non-commercial purposes, including evaluations, education, research, and personal projects. The non-commercial version of RenderMan is fully functional without watermark or limitation, all you need to do is use the "rendered with RenderMan" logo in your credits.

Your forum account entitles you to 2 node-locked licenses which expire every 120 days. Upon expiration, you will get a notification to renew your license online for another 120 days. For further details on your license renewal please refer to  our FAQ below.

RenderMan Logo

Use the "rendered with RenderMan" logo for all your non-commercial work.

Renewal FAQ



Installation FAQ




Operating System Compatibility

64-bit Linux

CentOS/RHEL 7.2-7.9 and EL9

64-bit Mac OSX

macOS 12.x - 13.x - 14.x

64-bit Windows

Windows 10 and 11


DCC Compatibility

Maya

Houdini

Katana

Blender


Hardware Requirements

CPU

RenderMan and XPU require a processor with AVX capabilities.

GPU

RenderMan XPU and the Optix denoiser require an Nvidia graphics card of Pascal architecture or above. 

Memory

RenderMan needs a minimum of 8GB of RAM and XPU needs a minimum of 12GB of VRAM. 

Plugins

VFX Reference Platform: CY2023. Custom plugins can utilize C++ 17 and must be compiled with gcc 9.3.1

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