What's New
RenderMan® version 24 delivers a suite of exceptional tools for advancing look-development workflows for feature film animation and VFX
Lightyear © Disney/ Pixar
RenderMan® version 24 delivers a suite of exceptional tools for advancing look-development workflows for feature film animation and VFX
Pixar’s new hybrid CPU + GPU rendering technology is Pixar’s next generation rendering engine, rewritten for speed and efficiency on film production assets.
Starting from a system architecture that can leverage the latest developments in multi-core CPU and GPU hardware, separately or in combination, XPU has been developed to handle the scale and complexity of Pixar’s feature animation projects.
XPU is Fast!
Make creative choices faster than ever by using all your computing resources during your look development.
CPU or GPU, RenderMan XPU can use it.
Reliable and Predictable
Look develop with XPU and transition seamlessly to RIS for final shot production.
In this first release, XPU has been designed for look development and to provide an excellent match to RenderMan's production pathtracer, RIS. When there are differences, XPU will still create images that are predictive of what you will get from RIS. Ongoing XPU development will add more production features and address look differences that are found.
Mix and match Lama layers in all of our bridge products, you can even save Lama materials and share them through the Preset Browser.
- Eric Wachtman, CG Look Development Lead, Laika
Bump Roughness
Innovative system developed at Pixar Animation for rendering micro details such as scratches efficiently and automatically, without expensive sampling.
Fine details, such as scratches, are hard for pathtracers to find, especially when far from the camera. Bump Roughness helps us keep these micro details in medium and wide shots, as shown in this Cars 3 example. This allows you to achieve details faster and with greater efficiency.
The process is seamless and automatic, simply plug in your texture map and RenderMan takes care of the rest.
Live Statistics
Watch your rendering resource usage live, thanks to a completely redesigned statistics system focused on interactivity and extensibility.
Take a deep dive with a series of great developer talks and workshops and discover what makes RenderMan 24 such a special release!