New RenderMan® for Maya® EVAL Now Available
Full-Featured, Watermarked, Evaluation Version
EMERYVILLE, CA (April 13, 2006) – Pixar Animation Studios today released a free evaluation version of RenderMan for Maya.
Available for immediate download, RenderMan for Maya EVAL is a fully
functional watermarked version that will allow any Maya user to freely
explore the capabilities of the same RenderMan technology utilized in
every live action and animated movie nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects over the last 10 years.
“Since
launching RenderMan for Maya we have been overwhelmed with evaluation
requests,” says Chris Ford, Business Director for RenderMan at Pixar.
“The new RenderMan for Maya EVAL enables every Maya user aspiring to
move up to the next level of CG imagery to fully explore its
capabilities.”
Tightly
integrated into Maya's workflow, Pixar's RenderMan for Maya EVAL is
easy to install and use, and offers all the advantages of RenderMan
including ultra-fast 3D motion blur, fast displacements, micro-polygon
tessellation, ambient occlusion, deep shadows, and fully integrated one
pass hair, fur, and particle rendering at the highest cinematic levels
of quality.
“On
a recent project we were provided 3D scan data as a low-poly mesh with
displacement map and we simply could not get it to render without
artifacts,” says Adam Stern President/VFX Supervisor of Artifex
Studios. “With
RenderMan for Maya it was rendering beautifully by the end of the day.
The way RenderMan for Maya handles displacement is outstanding!”
“I
recently needed to re-render an animation that had to be done fast and
rendered 12 times larger than the original,” says Ryan Bird, owner of
Blue Bird Digital LLC. “Even
at this far larger scale RenderMan for Maya cut my rendering time from
two minutes per frame to about 45 seconds and the rendered images
looked far better than the originals.”
Availability
RenderMan
for Maya EVAL 1.0 is available as a free download for either Windows or
Mac OS X from the Pixar website at renderman.pixar.com. Full tutorials
are supplied as standard. The full RenderMan for Maya plug-in is
available from the same location at US $995. For more information visit
renderman.pixar.com or email rendermansales@pixar.com
