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AMD and Pixar announce RenderMan Challenge

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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AMD and Pixar Animation Studios announced the RenderMan Challenge, where graphic designers and artists around the world create their cinematic visions with Pixar’s RenderMan.

This year, challengers will receive access to “The AMD Creator Cloud,” a render farm powered by Azure HBv3 instances that are composed of high-performance AMD Epyc processors with AMD 3D V-Cache technology.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.