According to this BBC News item, Pixar are preparing to offer their 3D RenderMan software for free - at least for non-commercial use.  

Gerry

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Cool ! ! ! !

I sure hope iClone 6 will plug into it. 

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I'm thinking I might need to increase my graphics card budget.  Just slightly.

Maybe this... http://anandtech.com/show/8069/nvidia-releases-geforce-gtx-titan-z  It's only 10x my original GPU budget for when iClone 6 comes out.

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It would be interesting to see what difference people can make with their animations once the free version is released, with side-by-side comparisons

FYI...

RenderMan really is a "rendering engine only."  It sure would be fun if iClone 6 can plug into it.  But for now, in only has ties with four applications.

RenderMan is advanced technology for shading, lighting, and rendering. RenderMan is not an animation or modeling package.

RenderMan can be plugged into one of the following tools, Maya, Houdini, Katana, or Cinema4D. If you use one of those packages you can try RenderMan. You can also use RenderMan if you have your own custom tool(s) for generating renderable 3D assets (RIB) for purposes such as scientific visualization.

RenderMan by itself does not have a user interface or GUI.

http://renderman.pixar.com/view/registration

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

interesting that they would include Katana but not modo - since they are both part of the foundry.

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Just in case any of you are still thinking about getting your heads around RenderMan.

There is a series of tutorials available by Mark Flanagan on YouTube.

Gerry

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