Pixar Releases RenderMan Studio 1.0 & RenderMan for Maya 2.0

[NMILIOTI]

In a major upgrade, RenderMan for Maya 2.0, Pixar's advanced rendering plug-in for Maya, introduces powerful multi-threading, substantial increases in ray-tracing performance, improved fur, new camera effects, caustics, point based global illumination, and compatibility with Maya 8.5.

Additionally, both RenderMan Studio 1.0 and RenderMan for Maya 2.0 incorporate a new licensing policy permitting up to 4 threads or 4 parallel renders per host machine, potentially quadrupling performance or more on a per frame basis.

"One of the things that blew me away about RenderMan for Maya 2.0 is the massively increased speed" said Ryan Bird of Bluebird Digital LLC, "In fact, it was so much faster that I thought something was broken. After carefully looking over my final rendered image and seeing all that great quality my excitement jumped through the roof."

RenderMan for Maya 2.0 is available on Windows XP and Mac OS X for US $995 per license. Pricing for RenderMan Studio 1.0 starts at US $2,000 per license and is available on Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. Upgrades from RenderMan Artist Tools 6.5 to RenderMan Studio 1.0 are free to all RenderMan Artist Tools customers on current maintenance.

http://renderman.pixar.com/products/news/studio1.0_launch.html

[snakehead]

Look gr8 hope it will be here soon

[masuimi]

Can't wait to try this out, but from what i hear it's not such a huge upgrade other then being compaible with maya 8.5

wait and see

[kole]

This is what I need to learn, beside Mental Ray this is must know for me. Just can't wait to get my hands on this.