Pixar's RenderMan has been specifically engineered to meet the demanding challenges of rendering 3D animation and visual effects. This means RenderMan is fast, efficient, and able to handle an astonishing amount of geometric complexity along with offering cutting-edge effects. Critically, Pixar's RenderMan has been developed to deliver outstanding imagery during the stresses of real-world productions. This means that in your own 3D work, you can trust that RenderMan is ready for the job ... Not Only with Outstanding features, BUT the Power to Deliver. Class 01: Introduction: @ Renderman is a Specification, PRMan is the Software: a Brief history of this 20 years old software - quick tour of the prman software package and the various utilities - "hello sphere": write a simple RIB to render a sphere - Overview of the Structure of a RIB - context stacks. Class 02: RIB Structure: Creating a scene - Basic transformations (matrix and Concatenation) - Positioning the Camera - Basic Geometric primitives - parenting - options & attributes. Class 03: Reyes: in-depth Look at the Reyes algorithm, does IT really Render Everything You Ever Saw? - Core Concepts: Splitting, dicing, and micropolygons Shaders - render options: Taking Control of your memory, Speed ??and Image quality Class 04: Custom Shaders: introduction to the shading language Grammar, syntax & data types, Compilation - Implementation of a simple Plastic Shader - Implementation of a simple Light Shader - Shaders to the attaching the geometry. Class 05: ImageFeatures: Motion blur, Motion samples, multi-segment blur, Limitations - depth of field - Uniform / varying - Flow Control - fbm Class 06: Passing data: coordinate Systems, space transformations Class 07: Shading, texture maps: txmake and texture () - Geometric primitives - texture Coordinates Class 08: Shading, Illumination: Illuminance, Illuminate: specular reflections diffuse Class 09: Bump & Displacement: Bump mapping - displacement mapping - displacement bounds - Practical Application of sub-Pixel displacement Class 10: Shadows: Shadow maps - Bias - blur - samples - Workflow in Maya / Slim