Essential RenderMan

By: Ian Stephenson

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Paperback | 20 July 2007 | Edition Number 2

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300 Pages

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RenderMan has long been associated with top-end film production and is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films (such as Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles). RenderMan is widely available and, with the demand for higher quality images, is now used by computer-based artists at all levels of the graphics industry.

Intended to provide a straightforward and easy introduction to the basic techniques involved, this book provides an excellent grounding, enabling readers to confidently move to more advanced texts. This second edition includes a new chapter on global illumination, and, with plenty of illustrations and hands-on examples, Ian Stephenson: gives an overview of RenderMan, explains how scenes are described, illustrates (among other things) how to create surfaces; colour; lighting; shadows; and depth of field, using RIB and the C API, introduces the techniques involved in creating shaders, applying textures and using global illumination.

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From the reviews of the second edition: "RenderMan is a rendering application programming interface (API) associated with film production, an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films. This book is a self-paced tutorial that facilitates the understanding of many of the features of RenderMan. ! The book has three parts: overview, geometry, and shading. ! Overall, I found the book interesting, helpful, and a good introduction to the subject ! ." (Howard Whitston, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (12), December, 2008)

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General overview	p. 1
What is RenderMan?	p. 3
Is RenderMan for me?	p. 7
An overview of the RenderMan system	p. 9
What do I need?	p. 11
How to use this book	p. 13
Geometry	p. 15
A simple scene	p. 17
Moving things around	p. 23
Simple surfaces	p. 33
Color and other attributes of objects	p. 41
Camera setup	p. 49
Lighting	p. 57
The standard surface types	p. 69
More complex surfaces	p. 79
Shadows	p. 91
Motion blur and depth of field	p. 101
The C API	p. 111
Particles and hair	p. 119
Shading	p. 129
My first shader	p. 131
Lighting models	p. 135
Color ramps	p. 145
Simple patterns	p. 153
Tiling and repeating patterns	p. 159
Projections and coordinate spaces	p. 169
Painted textures	p. 179
Displacement	p. 191
Noise	p. 201
Aliasing	p. 213
Shading models	p. 229
Other kinds of shader	p. 235
Global illumination	p. 245
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