

Stephen works through rendering high poly scenes with both the Arnold Renderer and RenderMan, with IBL lighting, and then runs the paces of studio lighting setups. RIS is RenderMan’s a highly optimized mode for rendering global illumination. It was built to specialize in rendering scenes with heavy geometry, hair, volumes, and irradiance with world-class efficiency in a single pass. The most recent version of RenderMan included a new RIS engine. Pixar recently released RenderMan as free for personal use, with the commercial version weighing in at an attractive $500 / license.


PixelBump’s Stephen Sprinkles steps away from the Cinema 4D tutorials for a bit, and offers a comparative look into the RenderMan and Arnold render engines for Maya.Ĭomparing Pixar’s RenderMan and SolidAngle’s Arnold Renderer in Maya. Arnold, RenderMan, V-Ray, Thea, Corona, etc. There almost seems to be a ton of third party render engines options in the last little while.
