Renderman is dead!! Or at least on its way to die!!

[mustique]

Renderman is not made by artists its made by computer science people. And i think it should stay that way, artsy people should learn technical stuff like some programming if they want to work with advanced animation or just stay away from it.

That’s the same attitude symbian developers and Nokia were relying on for the last decade.

[ndeboar]

Renderman is not made by artists its made by computer science people. And i think it should stay that way, artsy people should learn technical stuff like some programming if they want to work with advanced animation or just stay away from it.

Errrr, show me a renderer written by artists then??

[rendermaniac]

This developer didn’t happen to be involved in the mess that is Mental Ray for Maya did they?

Making an interface which is innovative and also powerful is very difficult. It is also a never ending process as you need to add new renderer features and constantly refine the workflow.

It has only been the last few years that Pixar has seriously been addressing their interface to RenderMan with RenderMan for Maya / RenderMan Studio and they still haven’t got it quite right.

Solid Angle’s approach is very interesting - giving source code access to the Arnold exporters - but still supporting them.

And then there is Houdini - it’s strongest feature is their powerful interface to Renderman.

Simon

the amount of time that is needed to get an interface right is so little
compared to making the actually renderer ( and I got that from a pro Developer… but its anyway a no brainer). the problem is that most of the
time the developer is building the interface, or is involved in it…
Which is the dummest thing you can ever do. Which happened to Prman as well…obviously

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