Sun 22nd Jan 2012 | News
RenderMan On Demand, Pixar's new cloud rendering service sparks a new era for RenderMan and for VFX studios.
RenderMan On Demand is an online rendering service for Pixar's RenderMan, offering immediate access to the power of the clouds vastly scalable computing resources without the expense of building and running your own render farm. As announced at the SIGGRAPH Asia Hong Kong RenderMan User Group, RenderMan On Demand is accessible, right now, directly through a service interface developed and administrated by GreenButton, a specialist in cloud service delivery.
The service has already been tested rigorously and has delivered thousands of frames for studios in the beta test program.
RenderMan On Demand is designed to provide studios and individual artists with immediate access to a professionally configured rendering service. Currently, RenderMan On Demand can handle smaller and medium sized projects with a high degree of reliability. Uploading very large datasets still presents some challenges that are currently being addressed. Depending on the complexity of your scenes, we encourage you to test RenderMan On Demand on your own assets to determine its suitability for your pipeline.
RenderMan On Demand currently runs on the Microsoft's Windows Azure platform. Linux support will be added later in 2012.
GreenButton is an award winning global software company specializing in high performance cloud computing, dually headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand and Palo Alto, California with a subsidiary office in Seattle, Washington.
Unlike a traditional software license, RenderMan On Demand is purchased in core hours on a pay for use basis. The price includes rendering time, uploads, downloads, and storage charges, all in a single, easy to calculate price. You can pre-purchase RenderMan On Demand hours through any of Pixar's RenderMan Resellers around the globe, or directly from the site below.
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