Arnold是一个高端的Maya照明系统，在过去的几年中，Arnold 已被用于创造独特的视觉效果，主要应用于影视级的故事片，动画片，和高端商业项目。

参与制作的动画电影有《怪物房子》，《贝奥武夫》，《爱丽丝梦游仙境》。

新功能：

* Render to texture utility

* Convert illumination, shadows, shading, and textures to a single texture file that you can use as a texture map.

* Export displaced geometry utility

* Export the geometry subdivided and displaced by Arnold to an .

obj file.

* Transmission component added to the hair shader.

* volume_sample_float and volume_sample_rgb shaders

* Do an explicit lookup from a volume channel and remap its output.