It’s Siggraph week so the main news is the announcement of RAT 7.0, RenderMan for Maya 2.0, and RenderMan Studio 1.0. RenderMan Studio will be replacing MTOR and is based on RenderMan for Maya. These will also support the new Autodesk Maya 8.0. Although there is no information about whether it will support 64bit operating systems.

Also this years RenderMan course notes are online courtesy of Tal at The RenderMan Repository. This years course was organised by Rudy Cortes, who also runs The RenderMan Academy. As both are currently at Walt Disney Feature Animation there is a lot of insight into the look development workflow at Disney. Disney also has a new website to Upload your resume.

And if you really want the ultimate graphics card Nvidia has released the Quadro Plex 1000.

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