RenderMan Studio 3
Meeting RenderMan for Maya and Pro Sever half way, Pixar’s RenderMan Studio™ is the ultimate rendering suite, providing shading, rendering, compositing, and renderfarm management in one package.
RenderMan Studio includes elements of other Pixar's RenderMan products giving the user a high quality comprehensive tool that is fully customisable.
Included in the package are RenderMan for Maya "Pro", an integrated interface for Maya that is the "bridge" between Maya and RenderMan; Slim, an interactive graphical shader editor; Tractor, Pixar's new and improved work dispatching system and "it", the image tool with powerful script based compositing.
What makes it Pro? It's possible to directly manipulate 3D data outside of Maya the animation package with RFM Pro... and that has big implications in production. In the world of RenderMan, this 3D data is called RIB, and it's one of the key features of RFM Pro: the ability to export, import, filter, merge and simply hack RIB to your hearts’ content. With the magic of RIB, you can assemble scenes of incredible complexity that are far larger than anything Maya could ever display interactively... or write custom tools that can create procedural effects that would be impossible in Maya. RIB is a useful tool.
Features
- Slim™, is the shader tool that increases productivity and lets you create original RenderMan shaders interactively. You can also customise Slim with your own RSL code and scripts.
- Render directly to "it", Pixar's imaging tool. You can store images in catalogues, wipe between images, add notes to images, post process with "IceMan" compositing, display the luminance of HDR imagery and view OpenEXR files.
Tractor is Pixar's new and improved work dispatching system which takes the hassle out of job distribution.
Benefits
- Easy Integration: RenderMan for Maya Pro offers the same ease-of-use found with RenderMan for Maya, and doesn't require extra knowledge to use if you wish to work within the normal Maya workflow. However, for those who want to push the software as far as it can go, RenderMan for Maya Pro offers unlimited possibilities.
- Power Up Your Render Farm: One of the key features of RenderMan for Maya Pro is support for RenderMan Pro Server, Pixar's server-side renderer, which is the backbone of Pixar's own renderfarm. With RenderMan Studio artists and TD's can use Alfred to easily dispatch jobs from RenderMan Studio directly to a renderfarm populated with RenderMan Pro Server. These tools form an efficient workflow for rendering visual effects.
- External or Internal Rendering: RenderMan Studio can render either to RenderMan Pro Server or to an (optional) internal renderer. For both preview and batch rendering, the internal renderer has some benefits. But generally speaking, the shading and lighting artists in a studio will want RenderMan Studio on their workstations, and the render farm will usually be home to RenderMan Pro Server.
- Pick the Tool that's Right for You: RenderMan for Maya was designed with ease-of-use and affordability in mind, without sacrificing the most important features of RenderMan: speed, stability, and quality. Those who require the versatility of RIB, the robust, highly programmable shading tools in Slim, and the dynamic capabilities of plug-in procedurals will appreciate the power of our premium, high-end products: RenderMan Studio and RenderMan Pro Server.
What's New
RenderMan Studio 3.0 is the latest version of Pixar's advanced suite of tools for shading and lighting TDs.
New Features
- Relighting: GUI for interactive, final render-quality relighting of your Maya scene (RFM Pro Only, RenderMan Pro Server Required).
- Maya Fluids: Full support for motion blur and the ability to produce depth maps, for Deep Shadows, etc.
- RenderMan Controls: New consolidated user interface for intuitive, one-window access to the RFM's basic settings and operations.
- Co-Shader Support: Now supports tightly bound light/co-shader combinations.
- Slim Scripting: MTOR-style Slim scripting is now supported via slimcmd and slimmsg.
- TCL: Now supports Slim-side Tcl expressions (e.g. mattr, etc.)
Enhancements
- Maya Render Layers: Pass mechanisms for both implicit and explicit passes have been improved.
- New RIB Inspector: Enables quick access to your render data.
- Better Integration with Slim
Slim 9.0
- Factory Templates: Complete upgrades to out-of-box templates for production-ready shading.
- Materials Library:A library of complex appearances is included.
- Tight Slim/RFM Integration: Offering new levels of interactivity with Maya.
Tight integration means:
- Direct attachments from Slim.
- A new Smart Palette based on Maya selections.
- Slim networks can now imply extra rendering passes.
- Full support for Slim-side conditional Adaptors.
- PSets: A new UI tool for simplifying the process of introducing many minor variations in shaders.
- Co-Shaders: Complex shading tasks can be much more controllable and efficient with co-shaders.
New Compatibility
- 64 bit Vista Support on OSX
- Maya 2011 Support
- Mac 10.5.x Leopard Support
Images©Disney/Pixar
Related Products
-
Boston Quattro
Boston in collaboration with Escape Studios are excited to unveil Quattro – an award winning platform designed for high volume rendering that cannot be beaten on price, power, energy consumption and performance.
Call for price -
RenderMan for Maya 4
Pixar's RenderMan® for Maya is one of the premier VFX software packages - RenderMan for the masses.
From:
-
RenderMan Pro Server
The industry standard rendering software recognised by every major CG company in the World.
From:
-
Tractor
Tractor 1.0 is Pixar's totally new, next generation, distributed processing solution for rendering and other network intensive applications.
From: