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This release features major updates to interactivity and scalability, thanks to significant advancements to Pixar’s state-of-the-art renderer, RenderMan XPU. RenderMan 26 also features an interactive version of the advanced Denoiser from Disney Research which uses machine learning to significantly accelerate the rendering process.

Improvements to Stylized Looks, significant instancing speedups, an improved statistics system, as well as support for the latest 3D applications, round off this new release.

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