RenderMan: The Latest and Greatest from Pixar | Pixar | FMX HIVE 2024

Join Pixar’s Leif Pedersen, for a dive into the latest advances in RenderMan, from RenderMan XPU, to denoising, to major upgrades for Stylized Looks. With the latest release of version 26, RenderMan delivers powerful enhancements to Houdini, with a focus on Solaris, with improved UX and outstanding performance gains. On top of that, learn about how to join the next RenderMan Art Challenge and its community of artists.
Leif Pedersen, a CG Generalist with over a decade of experience in VFX, joined the Pixar RenderMan team in 2016. At Pixar, he applies his diverse skills to improve Pixar’s core rendering technology, RenderMan, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of artists and studios globally. Additionally, Leif actively engages with the RenderMan Community through social media and the RenderMan Challenges, showcasing the most artistic and technical aspects of the renderer.

[@sakibkhondaker]

12:37 This is insane!!!

[@erichocean8746]

It's very hard to choose Renderman over Karma in 2024.

[@metaturnal]

Hopefully Renderman could finish the fundamentals course that was started when 24 came out.
Include the new Solaris features too.

[@vladyslavlavrenov9167]

Tried Renderman 26.1, this thing is very unstable, not sure how to feel about it

[@vladyslavlavrenov9167]

Also Kaboom HDA is not a well made asset imo, I don't know how one supposed to work with it when most of the updates happen on the SOP level and not in the shader itself, every change leads to IPR force reloads + RIS tries to render at the same time. It crashed on me so many times, it's such a bad workflow compared to Karma
Aggregate volumes is a cool thing though, something like cloudbed renders so much faster than in Arnold for example, props to that

[@kwesikwaa9204]

renderman? lmao snail pace and unserious. peace of mind with karma xpu