has announced that it is to cut the price of Studio and merge it with for Maya when version 4.0 of the software is released later this summer.

Previously, Pixar offered two options: either use the $995 RenderMan for Maya plugin to render locally, or use the $2,000 to spit out RIB files to send to a renderfarm running RenderMan Pro Server.

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