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Essential Renderman Fast | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Stephenson
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 209654
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1852336080
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.5345
EAN: 9781852336080
ASIN: 1852336080
Publication Date: January 31, 2003
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Product Description
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 (such as Final Fantasy, Monsters, Inc., Stuart Little, Pearl Harbour and Dinosaur). 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. Essential RenderMan fast is a practical introduction to producing images using a RenderMan renderer, and getting the most from RenderMan. You will gain access to the power of RenderMan, which has previously only been available to the elite of the Computer Graphics community! With plenty of illustrations and hands-on examples, Ian Stephenson: gives an overview of RenderMan.- explains how scenes are described.- illustrates (among other things) how to create surfaces; colour; lighting; shadows; and depth of field, using RIB and the C API.- introduces the techniques involved in creating and applying textures and shading. Additional material is available from the Essential series website: http://www.essential-series.com
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 nice introduction October 26, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Gets you started with a lots of short examples. After reading this you'll probably want Advanced RenderMan, but this is a far easier introduction to the RenderMan world.
 Poorly produced, rushed to market June 18, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book should have never been published in such
haste. The author lightly grazes on important topics,
offering just tidbits but nothing significant. Very few people
use the C API, I don't see any point in wasting space on this.
The images are terrible, lack detail, hard-to-follow and most are in black and white. The 'Suggested Activities', 'Summary'
and 'Related Commands' sections at the end of each chapter are a joke and are merely page fillers. Surprising that Springer-Verlag would let such a low quality publication slip through.
 This book is Terrible! May 12, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is terrible. It tells you how to do the easy things, but nothing more. For harder things, it constantly tells you what is possible to do, but not how to actually do it. I would definately pick up a copy of "Advanced Renderman" or "The Renderman Companion" instead of this book! If you have any graphics programming experience, this book will not help you.
 A great book for beginners June 18, 2003
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Start learning Renderman with this book, its up to date and you can really get going with the information you learn. It has many simple examples you can test and modify yourself including simple RIB scenes, C Api and Shading Language. If you don't know anything about Renderman and want to start learning, this book is for you.
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