ResPower Supports mental ray® Rendering

It's what you've been waiting for! ResPower Inc., the world's first and only fully self-service render farm, supports the Academy Award-winning mental ray® rendering software from mental images®. Now, mental ray users worldwide can outsource their rendering to the ResPower Render Farm™ for fast, quality results - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

mental ray® generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. The software achieves scalable performance by exploiting the parallelism of multiprocessor machines as well as networks of machines by using advanced, proprietary acceleration and recursive sampling techniques for increased rendering speed. mental ray is the first rendering software to accurately simulate the behavior of light and allow the animator full programmability for creating any imaginable visual phenomena. Numerous 3d packages, including Autodesk/discreet's 3d Studio Max, Avid/Softimage's Softimage/XSI and Alias' Maya, have integrated mental ray.

With over 500 GHz and the superior features of mental ray®, the ResPower™ render farm turns any crew into a major studio. Everyone from large firms to individual users can log in at any time, upload their files and render. ResPower delivers the best in speed, software, and service 24/7/365.

About mental images®
mental images®, founded in 1986, is a recognized international leader in providing rendering and 3D modeling technology to the entertainment, computer-aided design, scientific visualization, architecture, and other industries that require sophisticated images. For more information, see http://www.mentalimages.com/

About ResPower™
Founded in 2000, ResPower provides rendering services with over 500 GHz. As the world's first self-service Internet rendering farm, ResPower provides rendering worldwide for small to large volume projects, for clients such as Nickelodeon, NewTek and Country Music Television. For more information on how to render over the Internet, please log onto http://www.respower.com/ .