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Late-breaking News

  • 31 July 2000 - RenderMan Interface Specification 3.2 Released - as announced at SIGGRAPH, the long-awaited and updated RI 3.2 spec is now on the Pixar web site. The spec can be found in both PDF and PS formats at the Pixar product documentation page. The new spec has quite a bit of new material. BMRT 2.5 is compliant with most of it, but not all. The next major BMRT release will bring it into full compliance with the new spec.
  • 31 July 2000 - as revealed at SIGGRAPH, I (Larry Gritz) am no longer with Pixar. I'd been there since early 1995, most recently as head of rendering research and chief architect of the RenderMan Interface Specification. Now I am one of the co-founders of Exluna, a graphics software start-up. We are not yet ready to announce the specific products.

 

Cover of ARMan book The book Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures by Anthony A. Apodaca and Larry Gritz (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999, ISBN 1-55860-618-1) is the modern guide to RenderMan usage. I'm sure you'll find it completely indispensible. The link above to the MKP web site also has links to auxiliary online materials such as shader source code, errata, and user contributions.