Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pixar!mikem
From: mikem@pixar.UUCP (Mike Malione)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: new book: RenderMan Companion by Upstill
Message-ID: <6554@pixar.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 18:14:12 GMT
Reply-To: ucbvax!pixar!mikem (Mike Malione)
Organization: Pixar -- Marin County, California
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In article <4741@portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) says:

>           There is the bonus of a brief description of recent Pixar
> animations using RenderMan, including "Abyss."

Just to give credit where credit is due, the animation for "The Abyss" was
not done by Pixar.  It was done by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM)
using Pixar's Photorealistic RenderMan software.  Steve thanks you for
the compliments on the book, though.

Mike Malione