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Pixar Releases RenderMan For Maya 1.0

Pixar Animation Studios has released RenderMan for Maya, the studios next-generation 3D rendering plug-in. Now all Maya artists can enhance their productions with the functionality and prestige of Pixars Academy Award-winning RenderMan.

With its seamless integration into Mayas workflow, Pixars RenderMan for Maya is designed for intuitive ease of use while providing digital artists with the competitive advantages of RenderMans reknown quality and performance.

RenderMan for Maya is specifically engineered to deliver high-end feature film quality standards to a new and broader audience, and is the result of an extensive development effort placing as much importance on workflow integration as on pure rendering functionality. Proven during extensive production and beta testing throughout 2005, RenderMan for Maya has received outstanding reviews from its advance testers:

Everyone knows that Pixars RenderMan has long been the cornerstone of professional film visual effects work, said David Dozeretz at Persistence of Vision Ent., formerly of Industrial Light & Magic and the founder of the STAR WARS Pre-Visualization Department. Now, for the first time, RenderMan for Maya allows visual effects facilities of every size and incarnation to harness the power of RenderMan at a remarkable cost. Its fast, easy to use and the quality is, as always, simply stunning.

We are changing our current pipeline to render everything in RenderMan for Maya, said Gustavo Braga of Conspiracao Filmes Ltda, Brazil. As the plug-in is so easy to learn and use, our artists are in love with it and its clear to us that RenderMan for Maya is a major step forward.

We already decided we would buy it the day it is released said Alain Xerri, head of R&D at Sparx*FX, France.

Available on both Mac OS X and Windows XP, RenderMan for Maya can be purchased directly from Pixars online store at https://renderman.pixar.com/store/ for $995. Optional floating licenses are available on purchases of five or more copies at no additional charge.

Pixar Animation Studios (www.pixar.com) combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. Pixar has created six of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: TOY STORY, A BUGS LIFE, TOY STORY 2, MONSTERS, INC., FINDING NEMO and THE INCREDIBLES. Pixar has won 18 Academy Awards and its six films have grossed more than $3.2 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The Northern California studio will release its next film, CARS, on June 9, 2006.

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Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.