Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures
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Average Customer Rating: 4.83Customer Rating: 4
Summary: Intended for shader programmers
Comment: Don't buy this book expecting to learn the intricacies of Renderman. This is really geared towards shader programmers and Renderman theorists. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, it just wasn't what I was looking for.
If you don't care about the above, but would still like to see how Toy Story and the Iron Giant were created, then buy this.
Customer Rating: 5
Summary: Delivers more than the title suggests
Comment: The world of computer graphics books is filled with fat, pricy tomes that are frankly little better than rehashes of the manual. "Advanced Renderman" is a completely different sort of book.
While Renderman is the ostensible subject, the authors actually cover the entire graphics workflow-- and explain the "why" of it all. Their section on anti-aliasing, for example, is concise, complete, and makes clear the implications of all those little doo-hickeys in 3DS -- you remember the AR explanation better, because its based around how rendering works, rather than how a particular application works (which may change in the next rev, anyway)
Smart guys, smart book-- highly recommended.
Customer Rating: 5
Summary: Great all-around RenderMan reference
Comment: This is a great book, written in clear and understandable English. It proivded me (a novice) great information about the RenderMan interface. Not only did it provide a reference to the various API calls, but it also includes an introduction to the basic maths behind it, as well as chapters that discuss CG in general. A thoroughly well written, useful and informative book. It is indespensible for any RenderMan user and in fact, for any CG artist.