Free Download Fxphd – Introduction to RenderMan by Liam Whitehouse

Liam Whitehouse | Duration: 4:42 h | Video: H264 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 44,1 kHz 2ch | 3,98 GB | Language: English
This course focuses on the fundamentals of Pixar’s RenderMan and covers some of the main features of the renderer, MaterialX LAMA, and RenderMan lighting as well as the myriad of render settings to get the fastest and highest quality renders with fantastic artistic and creative control.
Liam Whitehouse is an Australian based senior VFX artist who has been in the 3D industry since 2003 and has used RenderMan for many years. He has worked on various projects over the past 21 years including most recently environments in The Fall Guy, underwater environments in Aquaman 2, Lindon forests in The Rings Of Power, photorealistic canyon environments for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney Plus, and the hollow earth environments for Godzilla vs Kong, as well as photogrammetry rocks in Avatar 2.
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Free Download Essential RenderMan ® By Ian Stephenson Dphil (auth.)
2007 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 1846283442 | PDF | 7 MB
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 Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles). 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. Intended to provide a straightforward and easy introduction to the basic techniques involved, this book provides an excellent grounding, enabling readers to confidently move to more advanced texts. This second edition includes a new chapter on global illumination, and, 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 shaders, applying textures and using global illumination

Free Download Lighting a Short Film Sequence in RenderMan
MP4 | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280×720 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz | Duration: 3h 59m | 20.3 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
In this RenderMan tutorial, we’ll learn how to light a short film sequence maintaining continuity between different shots using Maya, RenderMan RIS and NUKE.
We’ll also explore how to maintain a cinematic style. We’ll then learn about propagation of shots and handling shot assets for different formats such as Alembic.