What's New
RenderMan version 23 delivers significant improvements to production pipelines with robust USD support and new features for look development workflows
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Supercharge your studio pipeline with faster, and better methods of processing scene data and interchanging assets between applications.
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In production environments using multiple applications (such as Maya, Katana, and Houdini), USD can enable a new level of reliable, efficient, flexible collaboration, including sharing of animated geometry, materials, and lights. With USD support planned or released from vendors like SideFX, Autodesk, Foundry, and Nvidia, this new technology will play an increasingly important role in production pipelines, and RenderMan’s support for USD is a critical part of future studio roadmaps across the industry.
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Live Rendering
Artist workflows are improved thanks to new interactive editing of resolution and secondary passes.
Interactivity Evolved
RenderMan 23 extends support for interactive “always on” rendering at more stages of the pipeline, improving on the groundwork set by version 22. New and enhanced interactive rendering features allow artists to make better choices without restarting renders, improving productivity in all stages of the pipeline, throughout modeling, grooming, layout, animation, shading, lighting, and into pro-level controls on cameras, frame resolutions, LPEs, and more.
Toy Story 4 © Disney/ Pixar
"We have completely rebuilt and modernized our entire production pipeline with RenderMan, Houdini, and USD"
- Andrew Beddini, Technical Supervisor - Image Pipeline, Blue Sky Studios
Houdini 18
Best-in-class support for the Solaris USD look development toolset for Houdini 18.
Sampling Improvements
New statistical adaptive sampling metrics take the guessing game out of convergence by making it more predictable with higher quality.
Toy Story 4 © Disney/ Pixar
Interactive Refinement
Tune your first pixel response and make creative choices faster.
