What's New
RenderMan 21.6 is an essential release, delivering enhancements for shading, lighting, and Alembic archive workflows, as well as support for Maya 2018.
Path Traced Subsurface Scattering
RenderMan has a cutting-edge path traced subsurface scattering model ideal for digital humans.
Better Skin & Soft Materials
RenderMan 21.5 is the first VFX commercial renderer in the industry to ship with a physically based model for subsurface scattering, a truly accurate model for photorealistic skin based on deep path tracing and albedo controls.
Until now, the implementations available to the VFX industry for these effects have been substantial approximations, which inherently produced errors and artifacts. RenderMan's new subsurface approach significantly increases quality and realism when rendering skin and other soft or delicate materials, which is essential for creating believable characters.
© Artists Teruyuki Ishikawa and Yuki Ishikawa - Hair generated in Shave and Haircut
Physical and Artistic Hair
RenderMan has great artistic controls for hair.
More Artistic Hair
RenderMan 21.5 includes a number of important new refinements to Pixar’s break-through Marschner Hair Shader released in 2015. New artistic controls allow artists to control subtle nuances and variation in color and sheen, while also providing a more natural response to light with improved energy conservation
Extensive plugin support
RenderMan has seamless Xgen integration with Maya and supports the leading plugins, including Joe Alter's Shave and Haircut and Peregrine Labs' Yeti.
Advanced Patterns
RenderMan continues to expand its suite of advanced production patterns, including new patterns to create easy variations of textures and primvars.
Better Denoising
Clean up sampling noise 2-4x faster with newly optimized vectorization for Intel CPU, and a full CUDA acceleration option for NVIDIA GPU's.
Finding Dory © Disney/ Pixar
The Easy Button!
Developed by Disney for Big Hero 6, the Denoiser was used with amazing success on Finding Dory where the average frame saw great speedups. Now the Denoiser gets upgraded with several new features. For Zootopia, Disney optimized the Denoiser to handle lots of fur and hair, while at Pixar the Denoiser was extended to support GPU acceleration, reducing the time required to denoise a feature film frame to seconds.
"RIS allows us to focus on aesthetics instead of technology"
Paul Oakley - Lighting TD Finding Dory
