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RenderMan version 24 offers a holistic experience, with tools that improve artist workflows and complement the creative process. By collaborating closely with Industrial Light & Magic and Pixar Animation, the latest innovations represent industry developments we bring you innovations that have been battle-tested in the most ambitious VFX and animation work in the world.
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Dispersion - The new layered materials system supports a sophisticated prismatic fringing effect for refractive objects.
USD - hdPrman includes dynamic rendering of LPEs and AOVs in all compatible Hydra viewers, such as Houdini’s Solaris and USDView.
Bump Roughness - Innovative An innovative system developed at Pixar Animation for rendering micro details such as scratches efficiently and automatically, without expensive sampling.
Bloom — Add gleams and blooms directly to your live renders with this physically-based tool for RenderMan’s Image Tool (IT).
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