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RenderMan has been Pixar's core rendering technology for over 25 years, and has been developed to meet the ever-increasing challenges of 3D animation and visual effects. Today, RenderMan has been completely modernized, with a state-of-the-art ray tracing architecture. Used in the biggest blockbusters, such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Jungle Book, RenderMan is capable of delivering the highest quality visual effects with unparalleled creative flexibility and artistic control.

For artists, RenderMan is easier than ever to use with single pass workflows and interactive shading and lighting, while continuing its tradition of reliability and expandability.

RenderMan offers customers fully integrated plugins for seamless integration with Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, Blender and The Foundry's Katana, and is also available as a stand alone renderer.

RenderMan's new RIS technology is a game-changing and highly-optimized pathtracing framework for rendering complex scenes with heavy geometry, hair and volumes, with world-class efficiency in a single pass.
With RenderMan 21, customers have access to Pixar's production shading and lighting toolset for the very first time, by including the very same shaders and lights used in pixar production, such as Pixar Surface shader, which was used in Finding Dory, giving artists and studios a production proven workflow to bring their ideas to the screen.

Pixar's RenderMan has been used in almost every Visual Effects Academy Award Winner and Nominee for over 15 years, including this year's winner The Jungle Book.

The Academy has also recognized the technological advancements of RenderMan's development team with numerous Sci-Tech awards, giving RenderMan users an amazing groundwork of production-proven development experience.