Ptex: Per-face texture mapping for production rendering. In the Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice SIGGRAPH Course. Extending the disney BRDF to a BSDF with integrated subsurface scattering. Dynamic ambient occlusion and indirect lighting. A review of image denoising algorithms, with a new one. Antoni Buades, Bartomeu Coll, and Jean-Michel Morel.Reversible jump metropolis light transport using inverse mappings. Benedikt Bitterli, Wenzel Jakob, Jan Novák, and Wojciech Jarosz.Janet Berlin, Brent Burley, Lawrence Chai, Andrew Selle, Dan Teese, and Tom Thompson.Antialiasing Complex Global Illumination Effects in Path-space. Laurent Belcour, Ling-Qi Yan, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Derek Nowrouzezahrai.Lighting controls for computer cinematography. Kernel-predicting convolutional networks for denoising Monte Carlo renderings. Steve Bako, Thijs Vogels, Brian McWilliams, Mark Meyer, Jan Novák, Alex Harvill, Pradeep Sen, Tony DeRose, and Fabrice Rousselle.Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures. An adaptive point sampler on a regular lattice. Abdalla Ahmed, Till Niese, Hui Huang, and Oliver Deussen.In Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Graphics. Local shading coherence extraction for SIMD-efficient path tracing on CPUs. Attila Áfra, Carsten Benthin, Ingo Wald, and Jacob Munkberg.We also describe our progressive rendering for interactive use and our adaptation of denoising techniques. We show examples of the use of path tracing, bidirectional path tracing, VCM, and UPBP light transport algorithms. The path-tracing architecture handles surface, subsurface, and volume scattering. We trace rays and shade ray hit points in medium-sized groups, which provides the benefits of SIMD execution without excessive memory overhead or data streaming. Complex geometry and textures are handled with efficient multi-resolution representations, with resolution chosen using path differentials. Users can write their own materials using a bxdf interface and their own light transport algorithms using an integrator interface-or they can use the materials and light transport algorithms provided with RenderMan.
RENDERED WITH RENDERMAN LOGO MOVIE
This article describes the modern version of RenderMan, a new architecture for an extensible and programmable path tracer with many features that are essential to handle the fiercely complex scenes in movie production. RenderMan started as a scanline renderer based on the Reyes algorithm, and it was extended over the years with ray tracing and several global illumination algorithms.
Pixar’s RenderMan renderer is used to render all of Pixar’s films and by many film studios to render visual effects for live-action movies.