Firstly I guess you’ll have noticed the lack of updates lately. There’s quite a good reason for this as I have now joined the 3D department at Cinesite starting with The Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It’s on my IMDB entry so it must be true ;o) Cinesite has also moved to a brand new office which is pretty nice.

Now that Siggraph 2003 has been and gone there are some roundups from Jeremy Birn, Flipcode and Vfxpro. Tal has also got the Siggraph course notes and the 2003 Stupid RAT tricks up at the RenderMan Repository. If you are interested in this type of stuff you may also want to check out Andrew Chapman’s RIB pre-processing using cpp and Hal Bertram’s shadeop showing a memory leak in Prman 11.1.1 (fixed in 11.3).

Also some more current news. There is a new renderer called Lucille out. It reads RIB geometry, but is not RenderMan complient and is inspired by Square USA’s Kilauea (parallel global illumination raytracer). Cgkit, a Python RenderMan binding, has reached version 1.0.1 (stable) and is well worth trying out. And finally Java has a RenderMan complient renderer in the form of Jrman. (sorry it has taken so long to mention it!).

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