Links

Books

The RenderMan Interface Specification (PDF)

November, 2005
Includes both version 3.2, July 2000 and the older version 3.1, September 1989.

Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures

December 2001
Written by: Anthony A. Apodaca & Larry Gritz
Published by: Morgan Kaufmann

Texturing & Modeling: A Procedural Approach (2nd Edition)

June 1998
Written by: David S. Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin, and Steve Worley
Published by: Morgan Kaufmann

RenderMan Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics

July 1989
Written by: Steve Upstill
Published by: Addison-Wesley Pub Company

Siggraph Course Notes

2006 - RenderMan For Everyone (PDF, 8.8MB)
2003 - RenderMan, Theory and Practice (PDF, 38MB)
2002 - RenderMan in Production (PDF, 10.8MB)
2001 - Advance RenderMan 3: Render Harder (PDF, 5.7MB)
2000 - Advance RenderMan 2: To RI_INFINITY and Beyond (PDF, 5MB)
1999 - Advance RenderMan: Beyond the Companion (PDF, 1.5MB)
1998 - Advance RenderMan: Beyond the Companion (PDF, 1.8MB)
1995 - Using RenderMan in Animation Production (PDF, 1MB)
1992 - Writing RenderMan Shaders (PDF, 1.2MB)

Web Sites

Wikipedia: The RenderMan Interface Specification

An overview of the RenderMan® specification and links to various RenderMan® related sites.

The RenderMan Repository

Pretty much abandoned website met to be a resource for subjects related to RenderMan®. Includes some shaders and the Siggraph course notes listed above.

comp.graphics.rendering.renderman

The RenderMan® Newsgroup.