Update for tonight isn't as exciting as I'd like it to be. Had Maya crash and lost a bunch of work I did. Oops. Should have saved. But I decided that most of what I was doing was flailing around in the dark with Renderman. While that sort of technique is great and all, I figured maybe I should spend some time looking at tutorials on Renderman and the like. I learned that since the newer Renderman versions (19 and 20) have come out, they've added a whole new rendering system. The old one was called REYES (Renders Everything You Ever Saw), and the new one is RIS. Might as well jump into the new one for now.
One of the cool things I found out was about the unusual Image Tool... or IT for short. It is just like the render window Maya gives you, except a separate program Renderman uses. And it has some cool features. By default, everything is in Linear, with easy tools to adjust for srgb. It also has a much better image comparison system, using catalogs and wipes, so you can compare between old and new renders. It even lets you select objects and shaders in Maya from within the IT. Very cool!
So for today, I don't have anything newly rendered to show yet, but I have spent many hours just getting used to the new interface of Maya 2016 and the new tools in Renderman.
I have to find some more tutorials on this stuff. If anyone knows of some I can get access to without spending money, please send me a link and I'll take a look and review what I find on here.
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