mental ray to become the standard renderer of Maya 4.5

"Alias|Wavefront™, an SGI (NYSE: SGI) company, announced today the strengthening of its alliance with mental images®. Alias|Wavefront is now offering the mental ray® for Maya® plug-in at no extra charge to all Maya Complete™ and Maya Unlimited™ customers. The mental ray for Maya plug-in, previously priced at $3,995*, is available free to all Maya customers beginning with Maya 4.5 and mental ray for Maya 1.5. Maya 4.5 customers can now download mental ray for Maya 1.5 public beta at http://www.aliaswavefront.com/maya/getmental."

Check out the link below to see some incredible examples of mental ray output and to check out the mental ray for Maya instructional movies!