1. Pixar, renderman, & you BY: CAMERON BLASHKA HANNA PALMERTON
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2. What is animation?
Any series of pictures interlaced with one another to simulate movement
Cartoons, flip books, stop-motion, clay-mation
CGI, computer-generated imagery, refers most commonly to 3D graphics created through the use of a computer

3. A brief history The Soviet Union, the year 1968, and a kitty.
Programmed primarily by mathematicians and physicists
Relied heavily on ASCII symbols
Produced hundreds of paper frames, converted into film

4. A brief history Use of computers becomes more recognized in the 1970’s
Early sci-fi movies starting using some wire-frame modeling
Star Wars (1977), Wrath of Khan (1982)
First solid 3D CGI movies, Tron (1982) and The Last Starfighter (1984) failed
First successful photo-realistic CGI sequence in The Abyss (1989)

5. pixar Started as a part of Lucasfilm (1979)
Pioneered nearly all CG techniques that are in use today
The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. (1984)

6. pixar Split off from Lucasfilm (1986), signed on with Disney (1991)
Grossed 2.5 billion from their next five animated films
Fully acquired by Disney (2006)
Pixar Studios Canada (2010)

7. renderman An industry standard for digital 3D image creation
Developed and maintained by Pixar Studios
Used in many film studios

8. renderman Widely accessible API
Available for many 3D content creator software packages
Known to be the leading CGI creation tool

9. capabilities Hair Blur Displacement Dicing and Shading
Not post-processed
Properly rendered, shaded, and blurred
Blur
Renders all objects with a previously determined blur setting used to distinguish different depths
Displacement
Changes levels of a plane
Dicing and Shading
Deals with ‘buckets’ of objects

10. FURTHER READING & SOURCES
Kitty – First Computer Generated Image Sequence
Renderman
Timeline of Animation
Technicial Introduction to Animation