Renderman Related Links
Documentation and Books
The RenderMan Interface Specification
You will find both the latest 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
The RenderMan Companion: A Programmers Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics
July 1989
Written by: Steve Upstill
Published by: Addison-Wesley Pub Company
1992: Writing RenderMan Shaders (PDF, 1.2MB)
1995: Using RenderMan in Animation Production (PDF, 1MB)
1998: Advance RenderMan: Beyond the Companion (PDF, 1.8MB)
1999: Advance RenderMan: Beyond the Companion (PDF, 1.5MB)
2000: Advance RenderMan 2: To RI_INFINITY and Beyond (PDF, 5MB)
2001: Advance RenderMan 3: Render Harder (PDF, 5.7MB)2002: RenderMan in Production (PDF, 10.8MB)
Web sites
The RenderMan Repository, A central resource for subjects related to RenderMan®. Includes among other things many Shaders and the Siggraph course notes listed above. You will also find dozens of links to various RenderMan® related sites.
RenderMania, a collection of links and useful information about RenderMan® and computer graphics used in production.
News and Discussion groups
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