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Pixar had a huge impact on the movies industry. When they released their first animated short it revolutionized special effects. Once again when the released their render engine, Pixar RenderMan, which the majority of the movies industry uses to render special effects.
Pixar first began as a struggling computer company that manufactured the "Pixar computer". The computer was sold to hospitals for CAT scans. It was the highest end graphics computer of the day. It was later sold to Viacom. Ed Catmull also helped pioneer computer graphics at the University of Utah, where he invented the "catmull-clark" object smoothing parameter (without it, all graphics today would still look like blocks). Pixar continues to develop its Renderman software, an academy award winning rendering software. This software is renowned and is highly used in the special effects industry, and artist rendering.
Disney Pixar uses a mixture a Autodesk Maya and Pixar Renderman for their work. Maya for the modeling and animation, Renderman for the rendering of the animation out. These pieces of software are the industry standard, also, for computer aided special effects.
games, cryengine2 by a country mile rendering etc., probably whatever pixar and similar studios is using
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Yes, it was a cooperative work from Disney and Pixar, after Pixar was bought out by Disney.
It's a matter of what one hopes to do in rendering.Typically though, Mental Ray and V-Ray are considered top range production quality render engines for photo-realistic rendering, though they are both capable of much more. Renderman is also a top line renderer used by Pixar and many other studios.There is also a new 3D mapping software tool created by a UK company called Skape. They are a 3D city mapping tool. It offers accurate, easy-to-use imagery, height data and organance survey mapping that makes geospatial information even more accessible.
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Disney bought Pixar.