Path-Tracing in Production -- Part 1: Production Renderers

Luca Fascione, Johannes Hanika, Marcos Fajardo, Per Christensen, Brent Burley, and Brian Green

Abstract: Pixar's RenderMan renderer is a modern, extensible, and programmable path tracer with many features that are essential to handling the fiercely complex scenes encountered in movie production.

One-line summary: Path tracing is now used for nearly all CG and VFX movies.

Published in: SIGGRAPH 2017 Course. ACM, August 2017. (Los Angeles, USA, July 30 - August 3.)

Course web page and presentation slides here: Path-Tracing in Production.

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