Holomatix Rendition is a raytracing renderer, designed to make life easier for 3D artists. It is compatible with mental ray scenes and shaders, for 3D scenes developed in Maya, 3ds Max and XSI. Rendition dynamically refines the rendered image, providing a lot of useful, immediate feedback, and converging to a final, production quality rendered image.

Using Rendition on a Render Farm

As well as being a valuable workflow tool for artists, Holomatix Rendition is also used to produce final production image sequences. This sort of bulk rendering task is often performed on a dedicated renderfarm.  There are two ways in which Rendition users can distribute their rendering tasks on a renderfarm.

Rendition renders scenes using any combination of Maya, 3ds Max, XSI and mental ray shaders. Scenes will be rendered near-identically to how they render in mental ray. Key supported features include:

A large part of a 3D artist's time can be spent waiting for the results of their latest render. Rendition eliminates that delay by providing instant feedback on whatever changes an artist makes to their scene.

Rendition's Javascript interface allows a vastly more flexible rendering approach than the traditional linear sequence of frames taken from a 3D package.

In addition the standard outputs available via mental ray, Rendition is capable of producing extra information channels, which can be useful when performing 2D compositing on a completed render. Rendition currently supports 10 different output channels, each of which may be activated from within Rendition, without modifying the original scene.