Integrate Arnold into external applications and create custom shaders, cameras, light filters, and output drivers.

Maximize the power of USD with Arnold in production scenarios.

Use Bloom, Light Mixer, Noice, and OptiX denoiser imagers to control lighting effects and automatically denoise after each render.

Arnold has a native scene description format stored in human-readable text files. Easily edit, read, and write these files via the C/Python API.

Work with a versatile, physically-based shader (like Standard Surface) capable of producing many types of real-world materials.

Render hair and fur with this physically based shader, based on the D’Eon and Zinke models for specular and diffuse shading.

Render Alembic files directly without any translation using a native procedural.

Identify performance issues and optimize rendering processes more easily with an extensive set of tools.

With operators, override any part of a scene at render time and enable support for open standard frameworks such as MaterialX.

Create ID mattes automatically with support for motion blur, transparency, and depth of field.

Take advantage of OpenColorIO for state-of-the-art color management.