A brief introduction to RenderMan

SIGGRAPH 2006 - ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Raghavachary, Saty ^a  

^a DreamWorks Animation   (United States)

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EID: 67649871582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1185657.1185817     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. SIGGRAPH course notes - ever since RenderMan's inception there have been courses held at SIGGRAPH on various aspects of RenderMan, including shader-writing, global illumination, use in production, etc.
2. Steve May's RManNotes - a nice collection of lessons on shader-writing, using a layering approach. RManNotes is at http://accad.osu.edu/~smay/RManNotes/rmannotes.html
3. Larry Gritz's 'RenderMan for Poets' - a small document (19 pages) which lists and explains the basic procedural API and corresponding RIB calls. You can find it at http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/renderman/pdftutorial/poets.pdf.
4. Malcolm Kesson's detailed notes on RIB and RSL, at http://www.fundza.com.
5. http://www.renderman.org - this is the RenderMan Repository ("RMR"), containing a ton of information and links. Here you can find a lot of shader source code and also links to PDFs of past SIGGRAPH course notes.
6. http://www.rendermania.com - News and info. about RenderMan, and a rich collection of links to other people's pages and sites.
7. http://www.rendermanacademy.com - excellent PDF tutorials focusing on RIB and shader writing.
8. Google Newsgroup - comp.graphics.rendering.renderman - a place to post questions and to read the c.g.r.r FAQ maintained by Larry Gritz.
9. http://www.highend3d.com/renderman - another place for downloading shaders and posting questions.
10. http://www.deathfall.com - a broad CG 'portal' with an active RenderMan section
11. PRMan: http://www.pixar.com
12. 3Delight: http://www.3delight.com/
13. Air: http://www.sitexgraphics.com/
14. Angel: http://www.dctsystems.co.uk/RenderMan/angel.html
15. Aqsis: http://www.aqsis.com
16. Pixie: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~okan/Pixie/pixie.htm
17. RenderDotC: http://www.dotcsw.com/