RenderMan for Maya Unveiling

onlookeronlooker
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I got an email from pixar. Looks like renderman for Maya is right around the corner.



RenderMan for Maya Unveiled





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Thursday April 7th 2005 at 5.00pm.



Pixar is pleased to announce the worldwide launch event for RenderMan for Maya ? a completely new rendering workflow for Maya artists aspiring to the highest levels of movie quality rendering available only through Pixar's award-winning RenderMan technology.



RenderMan for Maya is a completely new product, seamlessly integrated into Maya's unified rendering interface and offering unparalleled workflow productivity combined with RenderMan's advanced rendering tools - all at a price of only $995.



Targeted at Maya artists not requiring every feature in RenderMan Pro Server but who demand the same uncompromising levels of visual quality, RenderMan for Maya is currently scheduled for shipping in summer 2005.



Due to limited seating, attendees are encouraged to register as soon as possible for this special Pixar event to be held on Thursday April 7th at:



Gnomon School of Visual Effects

1015 North Cahuenga

Hollywood, CA_ 90038

323-466-6663



Registration_ ________ 5:00- 6:00PM

Meet & Greet_________6:00- 7:00PM

Presentations________7:00- 10:00PM



Please RSVP by Wednesday April 6th to [email protected] including the following information:



Your Name

Company Name

Company Address

Phone Number



The Pixar RenderMan team looks forward to seeing you!

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_______________________________ _________ Copyright © Pixar Animation Studios





__________________________ Pixar & RenderMan are registered trademarks of Pixar.





___________________________ _Maya is a registered trademark of Alias SystemsCorp,





_______________________________ __ _in the United States and/or otherc ountries.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,425member
    Is it really worth $995
  • Reply 2 of 6
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    It very well could be. Being that it's integrated into the Maya renderer, and the simplicity compared to renderman, and it's shader programming prerequisites is not something to be scoffed at. If you look at the price of renderman pro server, and renderman artist tools which is what you would need to accomplish the variety of tasks that the scaled Maya version is supposed to tackle I'd say yes. But hopefully you can buy it with a New Mac, or Maya for OS X from the Apple store for less. Apple has sold packages involving Alias products (maya) in the past.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    Quote:

    Does it make use of two processors on a dual processor machine?

    No, only a single processor will be used when rendering interactively from within Maya._ During batch mode rendering it will be possible to have two processors rendering different frames simultaneously, however this will consume two licenses.

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    If Apple (Steve Jobs) wanted to sell some Macs in new untapped markets, and RenderMan for Maya all that the same time, while getting the Macintosh foot in the door of 3D, he should allow Macs with two processors to render different frames simultaneously without additional licenses. 4 CPU limit without additional licenses on Mac's. (Dual Processors w/Dual Cores) Now that would get their feet wet in the 3D world for sure.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by onlooker

    If Apple (Steve Jobs) wanted to sell some Macs in new untapped markets, and RenderMan for Maya all that the same time, while getting the Macintosh foot in the door of 3D, he should allow Macs with two processors to render different frames simultaneously without additional licenses. 4 CPU limit without additional licenses on Mac's. (Dual Processors w/Dual Cores) Now that would get their feet wet in the 3D world for sure.



    Hopefully some new professional graphic cards to go with that as well.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    onlookeronlooker Posts: 5,252member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Relic

    Hopefully some new professional graphic cards to go with that as well.



    Yeah, that's a must for 3D that we don't have AFAIAC, but Apple's price for Shake on the Mac is much lower than the Linux version (about half I think). That's a pretty good incentive right there, but to offer this as well. A lot of people would seriously stop and take look at this offer. And the combined offer. They could probably sell a few small, and large studio multi user licenses of Shake as well.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Relic

    Hopefully some new professional graphic cards to go with that as well.



    This is from MacOSRumors, but they have been right a few times in the past:

    Quote:

    New GPUs from ATi, nVIDIA: Apple is reportedly working with ATi on two new GPUs that will be featured in its next generation of PowerMacs -- specifically, a Mac Edition variant of the Radeon X850 Platinum Edition and the first Professional-level ATi GPU to support the Mac: the FireGL V7100.



    Both support PCI Express x16. On the nVIDIA front, to compete with the new high-end ATi GPUs Apple is OEM'ing, a version of the GeForce 6800 Ultra is being prepared which supports both PCI Express and SLI -- the technology which allows two PCI Express graphics cards to be run in tandem for nearly double the 3D performance of a single card.



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