Digital - Tutors Artists Guide to RenderMan for Maya 3

Created exclusively for Pixar, this Artist’s Guide to RenderMan for Maya 3.0 is a great course for new users of this powerful rendering system. This course will cover the steps needed to load the plug-in, render your images and take control of the final quality of the render. Best of all it is a free course sponsored by Digital-Tutors and Pixar.

Lesson Outline (11 lessons)

1. Introduction and Project Overview

2. Loading the Plugin and Rendering

3. Render time subdivision of polygon surfaces

4. Rendering curves

5. Shared Geometric Attributes

6. Constructive Solid Geometry — CSG

7. Soft shadows with area lights

8. Rendering multiple passes

9. Rendering muliple cameras for stereo

10. Adding custom attributes per object

11. Using Zbrush displacements