Renderman

A large Tyrannosaurus rex roaring prominently while standing in a shallow river, surrounded by lush greenery and rocky cliffs in the background, depicting a thrilling prehistoric scene.

2 min

Checkpoint, fixed: Pixar ships RenderMan 27.1

Pixar refines RenderMan 27.1: better Lama layering, smarter checkpointing, memory savings, and fixes across Blender and Houdini bridges.

Bela Beier

09.12.2025

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A 3D animated character with large green eyes and red hair wearing a yellow shirt, smiling. The text overlay reads "RENDER THE SAME PIXELS ON BOTH CPU & GPU." The character has a playful expression against a gray background.

6 min

Pixar’s RenderMan 27.0

Pixar’s RenderMan 27.0 lands with final-frame XPU rendering, multi-GPU scaling, deep compositing, and a production-ready Stylized Looks suite.

Bela Beier

14.11.2025

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A colorful group of animated characters including a large robot in metallic armor and four whimsical, fantastical creatures with flowing shapes and vibrant colors, arranged in a friendly pose.

2 min

RenderMan 27: XPU graduates, RIS retires

Pixar ships RenderMan 27: XPU is ready for final frames, RIS is being phased out, MaterialX joins the toolset, and Stylized Looks evolve.

Jürgen Firsching

25.09.2025

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A smiling young boy with an eye patch stands beside a large, friendly-looking creature, both surrounded by vibrant, colorful underwater scenery filled with glowing jellyfish and whimsical fish.

3 min

Pixar beamed up: RenderMan Art Challenge 2025 goes alien

Pixar’s RenderMan Art Challenge 2025 goes extraterrestrial. Theme: Aliens. Deadline: 10 November. Tools: RenderMan only. Prizes: galactic.

Bela Beier

23.09.2025

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14 min

Mufasa heads to MPC

The Prequel of a remake of a animated movie, based on a Shakespeare play... and still worth watching! We got a Chance to talk to Audrey Ferrara, MPCs VFX Supervisor for Mufasa

Bela Beier

14.02.2025

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2 min

RenderMan 26.3

Pixar rolls out RenderMan 26.3 with updates focused on real-time rendering, denoising, and artist-friendly features.

Bela Beier

20.12.2024

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3 min

New version of Pixar RenderMan 26.2

New functions for more efficient rendering and enhanced material visualisation.

Bela Beier

26.08.2024

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A cheerful animated orange cat with large green eyes and a wide, friendly smile. The background is a soft, gradient purple, enhancing the cat's vibrant colors and playful expression.

19 min

A beastly good choice

The in-depth investigation of a FullCGI production with Houdini KineFX, Grooming and V-ray in Solaris.

Manuel Kotulla

02.08.2024

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1 min

Highlights of RenderMan 26: XPU receives extensive updates that improve lighting support, camera control and adaptive sampling capabilities. Plus an interactive version of the Denoiser with ML and a stylised looks toolset. And the free, non-commercial version of RenderMan 26 is already available.

Bela Beier

09.04.2024

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A plastic bottle drifting underwater, surrounded by marine life in an ocean environment. Light rays penetrate the water, illuminating the scene with a serene blue hue.

12 min

The Beauty

This year's FMX trailer is "The Beauty" - if you're thinking "that looks familiar", you're right. The 2019 project won a number of awards, including an Animago "Jury Prize" of the Jury". So it's all the better that we can now show this film to even more people!