Pixar, a well-known animation film company that has made blockbuster films such as Toy story and Bug's Life, has released its Renderman program, which is used by designers to add digital effects in films, for free for personal use. Anyone who wants to experiment or learn how to make 3D animation videos similar to those of the most famous films released in the cinema, can therefore download the Renderman program for free, in a non-commercial version, for Windows, Mac and Linu x, directly from the Pixar website .
Those who want to use it for commercial purposes will have to buy it at the price of $ 495 (previously it cost 1300).
With Renderman it is possible to create video animations with 3D models, characters, realistic cartoons, scenarios and objects of all kinds using the most advanced rendering techniques that are the same as those used in Disney films .
Before rushing to download it, however, it is important to know that to make it work you need to have a fairly powerful PC, mandatory with 64-bit Windows .
It should also be considered that learning to use Renderman will not be too simple and it will take some learning and patience.
The interface of the program is not absolutely friendly, full of buttons, options, graphs and cursors that you would need to know what they are for by reading manuals and watching video tutorials.
In addition, it is also important to understand that the free version, usable without any limitation, is strictly for non-commercial use only, therefore it is not possible to use it to create commercial videos if you do not want to incur high fines.
Finally, for download, you need to register on the Pixar forum which is one of the least friendly and most laborious registration forms I have ever encountered.
The download, of only 10 MB, however, does not hide any malware or sponsors and leads to the download of the real installer which is up to 500 or 1000 MB in size.
Alternatively, remember that Blender, the most advanced open source program for drawing and 3D graphics with animation, modeling and polygonal objects, can also be downloaded for free.
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