RenderMan Pro Server

Product Description

If you’re unsure about which rendering software to choose then consider that Pixar’s RenderMan Pro Server™ is the industry standard rendering software recognised by every major CG company in the World.

Pro Server is the most complete RenderMan rendering software giving all you need for rendering images for film and video productions - RenderMan Pro Server can turn any server or artist desktop into a rendering machine.

RenderMan Pro Server includes the Academy Awarding-winning RenderMan along with Alfserver™ which helps record the health of an entire render farm.

Performance and quality is at the core of Pro Server. You’ll be able to create the highest quality images possible and customise productions with the powerful RenderMan Shading Language with a full technological arsenal of cutting edge 3D tools and tricks.

Features

High-quality images
Robust, efficient rendering
Handles the most complex scenes possible
Fast 3D motion blur & true depth-of-field
Efficient, high quality displacements
Deep shadows technology for enhanced shadows
Advanced ray tracing architecture
Global illumination, and photon mapping
Support for image based lighting and HDRI
Subdivision surfaces technology

Pricing

Commercial
Academic

from $3,500
from $875

If you’d like any more information on this, or any other software, then please feel free to contact Graeme our Software Manager.

17.9.2008 - Pixar Releases RenderMan Pro Server 14.0- Includes New Interactive Rendering technology

Significant performance enhancements include accelerated ray-tracing, faster processing of large polygon datasets, optimized hair performance, faster AOVs, and enhanced threading scalability.

New core features facilitating the development of custom tools include a re-rendering mode for accelerated interactive shading and lighting, a new SDK for easy linking, a Python binding for simplified integration, user-defined structures in the RenderMan shading language, (RSL 2.0) an API for reading brick maps, and a new format for point clouds.

RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 also offers full compatibility with 64-bit Windows Vista desktop and 64-bit Windows HPC Server 2008, increasing the choice of available render-farm pipeline configurations.