This year’s Stupid RenderMan Tricks is available to download from The RenderMan Repository. This year the presentations are available as pdf and quicktimes. Not all the tricks are online yet, but the ones that are, are very good. Update: Dan Piponi’s quine trick is here.

Not on quite the same scale, but nice none the less, J. Adrian Herbez has some nice advanced MEL tricks, such as making a OpenGl like API in MEL and creating classes in MEL – using Maya nodes to hold their data.

Keep an eye out for Thomas Bitmatta – he may only be 7, but might be your next supervisor soon at the rate he’s going. And finally all hail the mighty greeble!

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