Illustrator® and mental ray® — United

'United' is the integration of Illustrator and mental ray. So if you use the world class mental ray know now you can too have the benefits of Illustrator by using United.

'United' is unique in that it is the ONLY solution that fully supports ALL Illustrator feature set.

So rather than creating a long list of Illustrator features and putting check marks by each one.

Its simpler and easier to repeat 'United' supports ALL the features of Illustrator.

This means if you can create it in Illustrator you can use it in mental ray. No limits, no exclusions, no caveats.

Simply put, if you want to use gradients, then know that 'United' supports them. If you want to use gradient mesh again 'United' supports it, if you want to use brush patterns as strokes, layers, type, masks, know it will work with 'United'. Everything works.

Know too that all shaders work with United, from Architectural to Anstropic, Bokeh to Blinn, every shader and every port work with United, allowing you unsurpassed creative freedom. Plus the simplest of workflows, as United follows the ones you already know. You had to use bitmap-textures before now with United you can use Illustrator art too.

Note: We do have a NDA with Mental Images and another non-disclosed party. So information is limitted.

But having said that...If you want to extend you creative reach;

be it in re-purposing Illustrator artwork from and in a point of sale environment to creating 3d using the same artwork, know you can save time and money with 'United'.

be it in animated films creating crane shots to add production value, know you don't need massive textures, Illustrator art scales.

be it in animated films creating ultra sytlised toon work.

be it in using scalable textures for ArchVis allowing seamless textured fly-thru's, no matter where the camera goes, know it's achievable with 'United'.

Using 'United' for packaging allows the creation of VR Objects, that scale. Combined with VR backgrounds you can see the product in the real environment, and move around the virtual world. Advertising agencies can show their clients the product in a completely virtual environment, allowing them to see product positioning against competitors, branding strength, and visual appeal like never before.

Know that Illustrator art is NO LONGER just for toon style imagery, photo real work is now achievable in Illustrator too.

'United' is only for OEM customers.

Illustrator is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar Animation Studios. mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images.