Ian Stephenson

Essential RenderMan® (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

RenderMan has long been associated with top-end film production and is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films. RenderMan is widely available and, with the demand for higher quality images, is now used by computer-based artists at all levels of the graphics industry. This book provides a straightforward and easy-to-follow introduction to the basic techniques involved with using Renderman. Packed with illustrations and hands-on examples, it will serve as an excellent foundation, a good first step and overview of the program. The book explains how scenes are described; illustrates how to create surfaces, color, lighting, shadows, and depth of field using RIB and the C API; and introduces the techniques involved in creating shaders and applying textures. This second edition includes a new chapter on global illumination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846288005
• Artikelnr.: 44223386

Inhaltsangabe

General Overview.- What Is Renderman?.- Is Renderman For Me?.- An Overview Of The Renderman System.- What Do I Need?.- How To Use This Book.- Geometry.- A Simple Scene.- Moving Things Around.- Simple Surfaces.- Color And Other Attributes Of Objects.- Camera Setup.- Lighting.- The Standard Surface Types.- More Complex Surfaces.- Shadows.- Motion Blur And Depth Of Field.- The C Api.- Particles And Hair.- Shading.- My First Shader.- Lighting Models.- Color Ramps.- Simple Patterns.- Tiling And Repeating Patterns.- Projections And Coordinate Spaces.- Painted Textures.- Displacement.- Noise.- Aliasing.- Shading Models.- Other Kinds Of Shader.- Global Illumination.

Rezensionen

From the reviews of the second edition:

"RenderMan is a rendering application programming interface (API) associated with film production, an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films. This book is a self-paced tutorial that facilitates the understanding of many of the features of RenderMan. ... The book has three parts: overview, geometry, and shading. ... Overall, I found the book interesting, helpful, and a good introduction to the subject ... ." (Howard Whitston, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (12), December, 2008)