Featuring the new RIS raytracing architecture and costing just $495. Free version now due early 2015.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Featuring the new RIS raytracing architecture and costing just $495. Free version now due early 2015.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Unrestricted free version due this summer. Price of commercial version cut to just $495, effective now.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
Maya crowd simulation system gets better support for deforming terrain - and option to render out in 3ds Max.
Monday, March 24th, 2014
Maya crowd simulator adds support for compound bone systems, more advanced actor interactions.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Maya version of the renderer gets improved relighting workflow, geometric area lights, better SSS.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Immediate result: copies of Katana now come with a free licence of RenderMan Pro Server.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
New features include path tracing for faster re-rendering, geometric area lights, Beam Diffusion SSS.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
Free collection of 3Delight and RenderMan shaders simplifies the process of lighting hair and fur.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Peter Aversten's texturing and look dev training blog includes videos on Maya, RenderMan... and yep, Mari.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Both feature improved instancing, photon mapping and volumetrics; price of Studio edition cut by $700.
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Still pining for Naiad? This highly scalable, Alembic-supporting tool could be exactly what you need.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Updated with neat new demo video: sub-$1,000 crowd simulator now batch renders jobs much faster.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012