From furry creatures to wondrous landscapes, the robust Arnold toolset helps artists render professional-grade 3D characters and complex scenes with ease.

• Arnold GPU

Switch seamlessly between CPU and GPU rendering.

• Subsurface scatter

High-performance ray-traced subsurface scattering eliminates the need to tune point clouds.

• Hair and fur

Memory-efficient ray-traced curve primitives help you create complex fur and hair renders.

• Motion blur

3D motion blur interacts with shadows, volumes, indirect lighting, reflection, or refraction.

• Volumes

Render effects such as smoke, clouds, fog, pyroclastic flow, and fire with volumetric rendering.

• Instances

Efficiently ray trace instances of many scene objects with transformation and material overrides.

• Subdivision and displacement

Create smooth, curved surfaces with support for Catmull-Clark subdivision.

• Open Shading Language (OSL) support

Use Open Shading Language (OSL), an advanced shading language for Global Illumination renderers.

• Light Path Expressions

Get power and flexibility to create Arbitrary Output Variables with LPEs to help meet the needs of production.

• Adaptive sampling

Use another means of tuning images to reduce render times without jeopardizing final image quality.

• Toon shader

In combination with the Contour Filter, an advanced toon shader provides a non-photorealistic solution.

• Denoising

Powerful denoising solutions offer you the flexibility to use much lower-quality sampling settings.