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There seems to be a growing community message that you don’t have to be a major feature film company to use RenderMan! Our second RenderMan story comes from our friends TRIXTER based in Munich, Germany. They had been successful using another rendering pipeline and switched to RenderMan; we wanted to find out why.
Escape’s Commercial Director, Mark Cass caught up with Christoph Hars, line Producer on Lilly the Witch.
Though the switch to RenderMan was not compulsory for this particular project, there were still many ways in which we could benefit from doing so, the obvious advantages over most other renderers being the high rendering quality and almost inconceivable speed with displacement and 3D Motion Blur, making our overall render times far more attractive.
Due to RenderMan's astonishing speed, render times were never an issue. For some of the shots the Rendering Department had to deliver more than 50 layers and the render time per frame never exceeded 45 minutes (on a quad core 2,4 Mhz PC) including subsurface scattering, point cloud occlusion, displacement and 3D Motion Blur.
Though our CG Character Hektor is a cartoon like magic dragon we headed for realistic skin attributes to seamlessly integrate him into the live-action plates. Some of the RenderMan features such as environment light, pointcloud occlusion and subsurface scattering helped us to accomplish the look we were searching for.
We got very fast support both day and night from Pixar and Escape Studios. Whenever problems or questions occurred, we received fast and competent solutions. The forum also provided great hints and instant help from RenderMan users all over the world. (Thanks guys!)
It only took us 4 months to set up a whole new Lighting Rendering pipeline without any present RenderMan experience.
We were very pleased that we choose to purchase and integrate RenderMan into TRIXTERs' pipeline.
Read the full story here.
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