RenderMan Artist Tools

The RenderMan Artist Tools comprise a suite of tools designed to bring the full power of RenderMan to a production facility.

RenderMan Toolkit
Pixar's RenderMan Toolkit for Photorealistic rendering

ATOR
An Alias plugin designed to allow Alias users to embed RenderMan information in their scenes.

Combiner
A compositing application

Alfred
A network rendering distribution system

Looks
Surface material descriptions for RenderMan 3D objects

Classic Textures
Photographic texture collections

Technical Support

Technical support for Pixar's RenderMan Artist Tools are available by phone, FAX, e-mail and on-line.

(800) 937-3179: Call this phone number for a real live human voice. Our phone is manned roughly from 10am to 4pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday. We won't necessarily be there every minute of the day, so feel free to leave us a message, and we'll get right back to you.
(510) 236-0388: This is our FAX number. Send us whatever you want, but remember: FAXes with funny cartoons attached will get faster response.
rmancusp@pixar.com: E-Mail is probably the fastest way to get simple questions answered, and is a must for making bug reports.
WWW: Pixar's web site will always contain lots of useful information about RenderMan. A complete up-to-date on-line documentation set will also be available for download from this site.
Net News: There are a lot of really smart fellow users out there that you can share pointers and experiences with. You can make a lot of friends really fast by uploading interesting shaders!
FlexLM® License Manager Software: Additional resources are available to answer questions related to the software licensing setup used by Pixar. The online FlexLM End User Manual should answer a lot of questions. More information is available direct from Globetrotter Software.