Pixar Announces Free Renderman for Non-Commercial Use

    From August 10 to 14, the new Renderman in two versions will be shown at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver (Canada).

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    One version for $ 495, which combines (under one flexible license) functionality, before different packages: RenderMan Pro Server and RenderMan Studio. It can be used in commercial projects.
    And another Renderman can be downloaded for free and used for personal training, experiments, research, writing plug-ins and tools for it.
    Renderman will be available only for 64-bit operating systems (Mac OS 10.8 and 10.7, Windows 8, 7, Vista and Linux). Only Autodesk Maya 2013, 2013.5, 2014 and 2015 will be supported.

    The official announcement page and a little more here .

    RenderMan - software product, software package, industry standard rendering for 3D animation. In particular, there is both a standard for describing three-dimensional data for their subsequent visualization, and also as a stand-alone render, released recently under the same name.

    RenderMan was created by Pixar and has been used since 1986 by many well-known production houses.

    In most cases, the implementation of the Renderman standard is a complex of programs that are called from the command line and play a role in the rendering process. The standard distinguishes between the concepts of scene description files and geometry - RIB files, and material description files - SL files, or shaders. All these files have a simple text format described in the specification. Shader files are miniprograms in a greatly simplified dialect of C.

    There are connectors to most 3d modeling programs: Autodesk Maya, Cinema 4D.

    The current version is as a render for Autodesk Maya, RenderMan for Maya 4.0, as Renderman Pro server 16.4, as RenderMan Studio 3.0.3.
    RenderMan used in the films:

    Avatar (2009)
    2012 (2009)
    WALL-E (2008)
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
    Visit the Robinsons (2007)
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
    Ratatouille (2007)
    Man- spider 3 (2007)
    Catch the wave! (2007)
    Transformers (2007)
    Forrest Gump (1994)
    Interview with the Vampire: The Chronicle of the Vampire's Life (1994)
    The Lion King (1994) The
    Mask (1994)
    Speed ​​(1994) The
    True Falsehood (1994)
    Jurassic Park (1993)
    Aladdin (1992)
    Alien 3 (1992)
    Star Trek 6 (1991)
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)


    By the way, other software and technologies will also be announced at Sigraf. It will be a hot week. I am waiting for ZBrush 5, the new version of Marvelous Designer 3 (with really interesting updates such as quads instead of triangles and fixing those glitches that have not allowed me to live in peace since the launch of the third version), Substance Painter and others.

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