Comments on: Pixar's papers on computer graphics

• By: FlunkedFlank
  It's surprising that there was no paper on renderman. Am I missing something? Yes, pretty much every one of those first 7-8 papers is about technology used in Renderman, especially "The Reyes Rendering Architecture". And most of the papers since then describe some technique they have added to Renderman.
  
  
• By: JHarris
  junesix: There's a Simpsons episode in which Bart, in New York with his family, strays away to go to the headquarters of Mad Magazine. He goes in and is at first disappointed to find that it's just an ordinary magazine office, but then a door opens, and behind it is Alfred E. Neuman and all kinds of crazy things. I mention this because Pixar must have a door just like that. When you visit, look for it!
  
  
• By: casarkos
  I remember going O_o at the sewer rapids scene from Ratatouille and thinking how crazy it must have been to create. And now there's a paper on it. Thanks!
  
  
• By: sien
  It's surprising that there was no paper on renderman. Am I missing something?
  
  
• By: junesix
  kids treat them like rock stars when they they find out they work at Pixar... When I heard from an ex-coworker that he had started working at Pixar, I couldn't contain myself and started gushing about how much I love Pixar's films, asking him about the work environment, asking about his coworkers, if he had met Brad Bird and/or John Lasseter, how he was going to decorate his work space, etc. etc. I'm hoping to find some time this year to visit him at the Pixar office.
  
  
• By: dw
  I actually know some of these people. You'd be amazed how kids treat them like rock stars when they they find out they work at Pixar.
  
  
• By: ZachsMind
  Here's some quotes I remember off the top of my head from director Brad Bird, which are sprinkled throughout his DVD audio commentary of Pixar's 2004 Blockbuster The Incredibles: "Crowd scenes? Those were hard." "Hair is very hard to do." "Water is so hard!" "Ice bridges are so hard!" "See how her body goes flat like that? On a curved surface? That was hard." "Wet hair? That was hard." "See that right there? That took months! And it's only like, four seconds on film!" "This movie was very hard to make!" Thanks for not taking the easy route, Pixar. Now get to work on Finding Dori for real, or I will hold my breath until I turn blue!
  
  
• By: grouse
  Purchase Renderman. Only $3,500 and it's yours! It's interesting that Pixar has published so many papers in the last couple of years, but only three in all of the 1990s.
  
  
• By: effbot
  "Would love to get my hands on whatever ray tracing software Pixar have developed internally" Start here: Purchase Renderman.
  
  
• By: Jimbob
  Very cool. Would love to get my hands on whatever ray tracing software Pixar have developed internally, because POVRay just isn't cutting it for me at the moment. Damn, it's focal blur sucks.