Microsoft and Pixar Team Up To Bring RenderMan On Azure

Pixar Studios took stage at Microsoft’s cloud focused Professional Developer Conference 2010 to talk about their animation application RenderMan being available on Windows Azure.

Pixar uses RenderMan for their CGI-animated movies, with Azure, users can scale computing resources required with a slider. As presented, if the time needed to render was a priority, more computing could be immediately used and if cost was a concern, the number of processors could be easily reduced. A few screen shots:

So whenever you see a Pixar movie, remember that there’s some Windows behind it.