New, advanced materials, the same used in production at Pixar Volume rendering performance enhancements and deformation motion blur New material and light rig preset browser in Maya user interface All new lights and workflow featuring the same lights used at Pixar Improved RenderMan for Katana live render experience Comprehensive redesign of the Maya user interface > See Also: Using Pixar's RenderMan in BlenderPixar RenderMan 21 New features include: Incorporating over 60 new features, RenderMan 21 is going to be a game changer and the biggest RenderMan release in years. Pixar has annouced some of the new features of RenderMan 21 - the upcoming release of its RenderMan renderer.