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Pixar Animation Studios announces the release of RenderMan 22

  The latest release of the new version of production renderer RenderMan was announced by Pixar Animation Studios. Version number 22 comes on the 30th anniversary of the company’s founding. The new version, RenderMan 22, brings in new features that speed up workflows for industry professionals. In particular, Pixar’s Live Rendering delivers continuous photorealism right in the applications. With always-on live ...

Roger Wilsher

  The latest release of the new version of production renderer RenderMan was announced by Pixar Animation Studios. Version number 22 comes on the 30th anniversary of the company’s founding. The new version, RenderMan 22, brings in new features that speed up workflows for industry professionals. In particular, Pixar’s Live Rendering delivers continuous photorealism right in the applications. With always-on live rendering at every stage of the pipeline, enabled by a new Universal Scene Description (USD) based architecture for scene handling, artists can now enjoy fluid feedback, improving iteration speed throughout the production workflow. This revolutionary approach will bring new ways
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