1 History of RenderMan, I 2
Introduction to RenderMan 1977: Star Wars IV: A New Hope
Mike Bailey [email protected]
Oregon State University 1979: Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, and others leave NYIT to form the Computer Division of Lucasfilm
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History of RenderMan, II 3 History of RenderMan, III 4
Pixar Animation Image/Volume Studios Rendering Hardware 1986: Steve Jobs buys Pixar for $10M
Pixar Image Rendering Steve Jobs adds another $60M to keep Pixar running Computer Software 1986: Luxo Jr.– Nominated for an Academy Award Star Trek II (1982) Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) 1988: Tin Toy – won Academy Award for Best Animated Short REYES 1993: RenderMan wins a Technical Academy Award
1995: Toy Story RenderMan 1984 (1984) Pixar Animation 1995: Pixar IPO -- Steve Jobs’s stake is now worth $1.2B Studios
RIB Shade Trees 2004: Pixar bought by Disney for $7B, making Steve Jobs’s stake now worth $3.5B
Steve Jobs is now Disney’s largest shareholder (7%) – Oregon State University Oregon State University Computer Graphics prman Computer Graphicsway ahead of even Roy Disney (1%) mjb – December 26, 2016 mjb – December 26, 2016
5 6 Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, RenderMan Software Rendering Pipeline Up, 2009 1999 2010
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A Bug’s Life, 1998 Bounding Box Analysis Finding Nemo, 2003 Brave, 2012
Split Inside Out, 2015 Dice into Microfacets
The Good Dinosaur, 2015 Finding Dory, 2016 Call the Shaders Wall-E, 2008 Ratatouille, 2007
Do Front-to-Back Compositing Monsters Inc, 2001 Monsters University, 2013 Cars 2, 2011 Cars, 2006 Assemble the Pixels The Incredibles, 2004
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1 RenderMan Composites Starting at the Eye 7 RenderMan Renders at Higher-than-Screen-Resolution 8
First, let’s think about it back-to-front:
color12 2 color 2(1 2 ) black ,
color01 1 color 1(1 1 ) color 12 ,
* color00 color(1 0 ) color 01 .
Substituting gives us the front-to-back equation:
* color00 color(1) 011 color (1)(1) 0 122 color (1)(1)(1) 0 1 2 black .
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