Soul © Disney/Pixar
RenderMan Bridge Tools
Production Proven Tools for Artists
RenderMan now supports more 3D applications than ever before, allowing you to get creative with your favorite tools.
Maya | Houdini | Katana | Blender |
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Monster Hunter © Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Soul ©Disney/Pixar
Blender
Completely rewritten and officially supported to take advantage of the full RenderMan 24 toolset, including XPU and Stylized Looks.

“This is a fantastic release that introduces a whole new degree of customization. It’s not only the most consistent renderer engine I ever used, it’s now the most versatile one.“
-Fabio Sciedlarczyk, Look Development Artist, Mikros
Highlights
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RenderMan XPU™
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MaterialX Lama, Layerable Materials
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Stylized Looks for non-photorealistic rendering
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Live statistics
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Run RenderMan Inside the Viewport
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Interactive Shading, Lighting, and Geometry Edits
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Interactive editing of AOVs and LPEs
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Interactive Displacement Edits
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Light and Pattern Baking
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Pixar Surface Material approximation for Mari
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Plugin Support (Shave and Haircut, Yeti, Golaem, Realflow…)
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Image Checkpointing
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Advanced Pixar Patterns
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Self-configuring installation with multi-version support
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Dynamic Shader Binding
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Easy Deep Data Output
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OpenSubdiv
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Precompiled and Fast Shading
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Arbitrary Variables via Tokens
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Comprehensive Python API
For more see the Release Notes
Soul © Disney/Pixar
RenderMan XPU™ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
MaterialX Lama / Layered Materials | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Stylized Looks | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Bump Roughness | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
OpenColorIO – ACES | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Native USD Support | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Viewport Rendering | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Light and Pattern Baking | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Offline and Optix Denoiser | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Image Checkpointing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
SIMD Hardware Accelerated OSL | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
MNEE & Manifold Walk | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Pixar Surface Material System | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
OpenVDB Support | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
RIB & Alembic Archives | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
RiProcedural Plug-ins | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Particles | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Fur and Hair | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Maya Paint FX | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Native Curve Rendering | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Native NURBS Rendering | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Advanced Pixar Patterns | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Dynamic Shader Binding | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Interactive Hair Grooming | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Interactive UV Editing | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Soul ©Disney/Pixar