Advanced RenderMan

Creating CGI for Motion Pictures

Anthony Apodaca, Larry Gritz

544 pages, parution le 15/11/1999

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Résumé

Introduced by Pixar Studios over a decade ago, the RenderMan Interface Specification is the dominant standard
for sending data to the leading rendering programs used by 3D artists and animators. But users are hampered by
the lack of authoritative, up-to-date information on applying the standard, having long had to rely on the
ten-year-old RenderMan Companion and a far-flung collection of course notes and Web sites. Advanced
RenderMan: Beyond the Companion is precisely what RenderMan users are dying for. It offers thoroughly
updated coverage while moving beyond the original work's scope to provide in-depth information on dozens of
advanced topics. Both a reference and a tutorial, this book will be indispensable to graphics programmers,
modelers, animators, technical directors, and hobbyists-it is truly the key to their ability to achieve state-of-the-art
3D effects.

Key Features:

Written by the world's foremost RenderMan experts-key figures at Pixar, the company that developed and
first implemented the standard
Offers advanced users instruction not available anywhere else while providing a leg up to relative
beginners-including tips on avoiding mistakes and an appendix covering key math skills.
Filled with technical illustrations and many full-color representations of effects supported by the RenderMan
standard
Via a companion Web site, provides comprehensive documentation of the standard's semantics and syntax,
example source code, shaders and other software, and the full set of SIGGRAPH course notes on
RenderMan

Table of contents

Preface; Chapter 1: Photosurrealism; Chapter 2: Review of Math and CG Concepts
Part I: Scene Description: Chapter 3: Describing Models; Chapter 4: Geometric Primitives; Chapter 5: Handling Complexity; Chapter 6: How PhotoRealistic RenderMan Works
Part II: Shading: Chapter 7: Introduction to Shading Language; Chapter 8: Texture Mapping and Displacement; Chapter 9: Illumination Models and Lights; Chapter 10: Pattern Generation; Chapter 11: Shader Antialiasing; Chapter 12: A Gallery of Procedural Shaders
Part III: Tricks of the Trade: Chapter 13: Storytelling Through Lighting; Chapter 14: CG Lighting Controls; Chapter 15: Volumetric Shaders for Visual Effects; Chapter 16: Non-Photorealistic Rendering; Chapter 17: Ray Tracing in PRMan; Afterword; Bibliography

L'auteur - Anthony Apodaca

Tony Apodaca

is Director of Graphics R&D at Pixar Animation Studios, co-creator of the RenderMan Specification, and lead engineer of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan. His film credits include Tin Toy, Knick-knack, Toy Story, and A Bug's Life. In 1993, Tony and five other engineers received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for work on PhotoRealistic RenderMan.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Morgan Kaufmann
Auteur(s)	Anthony Apodaca, Larry Gritz
Parution	15/11/1999
Nb. de pages	544
Format	18,6 x 23,4
Poids	977g
EAN13	9781558606180
ISBN13	978-1-55860-618-0