Rendering for Beginners

Image syntheis using Renderman

Saty Raghavachary - Collection Graphics & Animation

372 pages, parution le 05/11/2004

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Résumé

Whether you are an animator, artist or 2D illustrator looking to move to 3D rendering you will be amazed by what can be achieved with RenderMan. Saty Raghavachary offers a complete, non-technical introduction to RenderMan and rendering in general - finally, a guide you don't need a math degree to follow! Full of clear explanations and plenty of samples on the associated website - www.smartcg.com/tech/cg/books/RfB - for you to play with, this color guide will quickly get you up to speed with this powerful, professional program so you too can harness the power of the program to create top quality imagery.

The Book Features

Clear explanations of rendering concepts to get you up and running fast
Extensive color illustrations to inspire you to make the most of your skills
An associated website with numerous self-contained examples which you can download, reproduce, modify and learn from
Comprehensive coverage of RenderMan's functionality to show you how to get the most out of this powerful renderer
Coverage relevant for all versions of the package, including a section on global illumination introduced in Release 11, as well as the key, general rendering concepts

Pixar's award-winning RenderMan is one of the best Tenderers available and has been used to create visual effects for dozens of movies since 1985. It is also the renderer used to make blockbuster animated movies such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo. As the beautiful images in this book show, in addition to photoreal imagery you can also use RenderMan to create illustrations, visualizations, simulations of natural media and even abstract art!

L'auteur - Saty Raghavachary

Saty Raghavachary is a senior graphics software developer at DreamWorks Feature Animation. He has written software used in The Prince Of Egypt, The Road To El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas and Shark Tale. He is also a part-time instructor at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, USA, where he teaches RenderMan and MEL (Maya) programming.

Sommaire

Rendering
RenderMan
RIB syntax
Geometric primitives
Transformations
Camera, viewing, output
Controls
Shading
Shaders
Global illumination
What's next
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Focal Press
Auteur(s)	Saty Raghavachary
Collection	Graphics & Animation
Parution	05/11/2004
Nb. de pages	372
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1063g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780240519357
ISBN13	978-0-240-51935-7