Some of the coursenotes from Siggraph 2007 are appearing on the internet. Sony’s course about producing Surf’s Up is an extremely impressive 127 pages long! Pixar has been busy too – with 1 course, 2 papers and 6 technical notes this year. Videos of this year’s Siggraph presentation can be purchased now at Siggraph Encore.

Holomatix Rendition is a very impressive interactive, realistic renderer which works with standard Mental Ray shaders in Maya. Also BTFShop mentioned earlier should be available after Siggraph for download from Sourceforge.

In non-Siggraph news, if you are a texture artist then you might be interested in the textures available from CgTextures.com has a large range of textures to download. Also Gamedev.net is holding a realtime shader competition with models that you can use.

Finally vfxworld has an article about Under Dog which we at Cinesite (and Framestore-CFC) have been working on recently