RenderMan breaking news Tokyo

At this weeks (Thur 17th) combined Pixar UGM and Rendersan there will be a special talk on how to save 50%-80% render times on your stereoscopic renders! Up till now if you were a newbie you mightn't know how to control this power within Pixar's RenderMan. So to make things easier a new Maya plugin (made in JAPAN!) will be explained by its creator Hiramitsu San.
I have been testing it this week and it is absolutely mind-blowing! -the guy is a savior.

I hold these meetings regularly but this weeks is not to be missed. It's going to be super informative if you are serious about rendering a LOT of stereoscopic data or want to relight scenes in Pixar's Renderman.Also you must NOT miss meeting Dylan's speech, he is flying all the way out from Pixar (Emeryville) just to meet you guy's so lets give him a warm welcome. Peter, from Sydney will also attend so we have two people to geek out!

login http://www.rendersan.org
RVSP here: http://www.rendersan.org/events/rendersan-5-with-pixar-ugm

Oh and we have a secret party later ..... :)

Rendersan #4

I opened the seminar at or favorite venue Silicon Graphics hall in Ebisu.

Officially released our new site http://www.rendersan.org. Had a little rant about how Pixar's RenderMan in particular has been the most if not only stable platform in my career. The PowerPoint I had prepared an hour earlier was a little rough but I think everyone got my idea of how RenderMan is not just a cash ROI but a training one as well.

More pictures here
Finished the talk with some woo factor showing my original MacRenderMan / Showplace / Typestry etc. floppies and original order forms from what seems eons ago.
Katsuaki Hiramitsu San followed up with his shading language 101 talk. Coding everything from scratch showing the "bare bones" of RSL and RIB. For most of the people at the meeting seeing RSL coded live was a first.

I later asked some of the more experienced RSL people what they thought and said it was refreshing to see a simple scene develop all written in Notepad.
Our special guest speaker Pixar's Peter Moxom then gave his virtual tour of Pixar with an excellent real time translation done by my good friend Akira Sugiyama.

Lots of great anecdotes and slides which satisfied all the Pixar maniacs in our audience which by the way numbered 58. Peter showed some clips from Pixar's UPcoming "Up" and explained a couple of RenderMan statistics about the film. He finished with some info about new releases.
Lastly a special talk was given by Silicon Graphics Japan about their latest hardware. I must give a special thanks to Silicon Graphics Japan for their support for our community. I hope to give a special report on some RenderMan and Silicon Graphics Japan combination's in the future.
After this great event we all had to PARTY TokyoGAF style at the Beer hall nearby

Combined RenderSan and monthly CG/Film/Game/HCI party

Keep your calendars open for 20th May 7pm
You may know I run a bunch of events for people in our field every 5-8 weeks in Tokyo. I will be combining 2 of them on the same day for next month.

RenderSan: the RenderMan user community of Japan (
RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar)

and

Bernies monthly Tokyo film/CG/Game/(etc) makers dinner.
(I gotta get a name for that).
see examples: here here and here

The way I will work it is we will do the ultra geeky RenderSan session at 7pm. For those of you who just want to mingle and don't want to listen to RenderMan related things can attend the post RenderSan dinner at 9pm.
Like always I have special guests from overseas lined up one is from Pixar (no not last weeks GOD of RenderMan Tony) but someone who may have some Pixar goodies to share. The second guest is a wonderful Brit post genius (Apple silhouette CM) who survived Hollywood.
I am organizing the venue now. Those on my mailing list should receive an email within the week, if you are not on my mailing list you better get in touch.
Why am I doing it this way? So the 3d and post/CM people can meet new faces.

RenderSan #3

I had around 40 attend the meeting in Silicon Graphics hall at Garden place, which by the way is now my favorite venue in Japan (thank you so much SGI). Later 25 came out for beer consumption at the beer station nearby.
How good did it go? Well. we were ALL the last people in the beer hall, and we went out for more beer at an English pub nearby.
So to be honest I was incredibly happy that everyone got along had fun etc.....
Considering the extreme range of experience and company sizes, nobody is ever too proud to help our fellow RenderMen!
you can read more at RenderSan.

RenderSan第3

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第三回RenderSanミーティングはまだ若干席に余裕がありますので、参加希望の方は至急ご連絡ください。
rsvp ( at ) rendersan.org ね！
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This months events in Tokyo

I have 2 events in Tokyo going this month(November 2008), if you are interested please mail me back.
On the 15th we have the special guest Party.
On the 22nd is Rendersan and afterwards drinks.
For the 15th Party please RSVP before midnight of the 12th.
For the 22nd RenderSan and drinks please RSVP before midnight of the 17th.
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今月はイベントが２つありますのでお間違えありませんように宜しくお願いします。
15日はSpecial Guest Partyです。
22日はRendersanミーティング、その後お時間の許す方にはafter drinksを予定しています。
15日のPartyにつきましては12日24時までに私までご連絡ください
22日のRenderSanミーティングにつきましては17日24時までに私までご連絡ください。

Siggraph 2008 and RenderSan #2

I know I haven't blogged for a month or so, which is unusual but I was incredibly busy. Back from LA I have been busy on a research project and a new film script. Anyway here is my Siggraph pics from last month in LA.
I started at the Pixar booth giving my blurb in Japanese on tuesday and English on Wednesday:

Getting ready:

then giving the JP speech:

The convention center where I gave it:

I also held the second Rendersan meet there:

A few fantastic guests showed like Tony Apodaca from Pixar, Ken Anjyo from OLM. Mr fantastic Joe Alter also gave a demo:

Later in the week Siggraph booked out part of the Dodger stadium for us - food booze etc..., where I caught a home run which was captured on the video screen!

I also gave a SRT at the Pixar group meet, I was totally tired & jet lagged by then. My talk was supposed to be on Prman for Python, it was later asked to be changed to a SRT, so far from being cool and zany, it was just a wacky tired guy giving a quick rundown of Prman for python! so it was more of a stupid rederguy laugh off but that was ok as the other speeches from the great SRT team blew everyone away!

The first RenderSan meeting.

On Saturday I hosted the first RenderMan® Community meeting of Japan, with much appreciated help from Yoshichika Shimamura and Naoki Kondo. It did not go entirely as planned, it was way better than I had expected!
I was expecting the usual unresponsive crowd, so I had 2 hours of blurb ready just in case.
Most of the group gave ideas, even disagreed at points so we ran out of time. In my wildest dreams I did not expect such reaction, it felt like a real community.
A lot was not voted for, but the main thing is the main structure was basically sorted out and I hope not to bore anyone too soon with much voting.
If you want to see what our group came up with look at the minutes at www.rendersan.org, I will be putting them up later in the morning.

Basically we voted on the name, structure, goals, and workings of our new community.
All three main RenderMan® vendors were there, and gave excellent input.
I was happy that everyone agreed it will be an open community, only restricting positions of power to vendors - in the interest of fairness.
An excellent point was made that my idea of allowing vendors to have some commercial input for hosting the group seemed a little cold.
Actually most people seemed happy to allow some commercial input if it was for the benefit of the community.

I may have been a little too much of a hippie in thinking the users would create a totally non-commercial group.

So we will be allowing vendors to add anything to our community. After all they are RenderMan® users too. The users also agreed that using a commercial venue was alright. Even when it came to funding people agreed a small fee was fine.

I had planned to give a small instruction on illumination loops and message passing, but time was against us. In the end we exchanged cards and about 20+ of us went out for a small after drinks party.
It was here over a few beers I got to explain a few of the tricks in the shader I handed out earlier. Everyone, agreed the party was the best thing since shadow maps!

After the party, the real hardcore amongst us went to a nearby darts bar. I think next time we shall plan the after party as it seemed like such a good idea.

RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar

日本のRenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティー

RSVP：＜info(at)rendersan.org＞　
当日RSVPが、無い場合はご入場出来ませんので、
あらかじめ、ご連絡下さいますよう、宜しくお願い致します。
皆様のご来場を心よりお待ちしております。
※尚、先着順となっておりますので、ご入場出来ない
場合がございますが、その際な何卒ご了承下さいませ。

時間： 6月28日(土) 18:30 - 20:30

住所： 103-0007 東京都中央区日本橋浜町三丁目37番1号 七号室

電話番号： 03-6323-9538

着席：最大 100人

東京メトロ日比谷線人形町駅下車A1番出口　徒歩15分
東京メトロ半蔵門線水天宮前駅下車4番出口　徒歩9分
東京メトロ半蔵門線水天宮前駅下車5番出口　徒歩10分
都営地下鉄新宿線浜町駅下車A2番出口　徒歩5分
都バス「錦11錦糸町駅−築地駅」浜町二丁目下車　徒歩2分

日本のRenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティーの成長を活気づけるための手段として、
新しいコミュニティーのご提案をさせて頂きます。日本RenderMan®コミュニティーでございます。

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■ご提案内容につきまして

日本でRenderMan® standardの知識、また更なる活用をお求めの方、または日本でのRenderMan®使用に興味のある方、ここで言うRenderMan®とはつまり、特別にどのRenderMan®バージョンとというわけではなく以下に記載されている、
AIR, Aqsis, BMRT, Entropy, Gelato, Pixie, PRman, RenderDotC, 3delightや、そしてRenderMan® standardに伴うものを指します。
またRenderMan®に関連するトピックや次に記すその周辺関連開発についてもカバー致します。
（参考例）
C, C++, TCL, Python, Liquid, Renderfarms, GL tricks, DSO's, OS,コンバーター, ハードウェア等...
グループとしてはRenderMan®開発者へ、私たちのニーズを明確化し、業界の活性化と相互的な向上を目指します。

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■第1回日本RenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティーミーティングの開催につきまして。

第1回目のミーティングは6月28日（土）18:30に開催します。

詳細につきましては下記にご返信ください。
＜info(at)rendersan.org＞
※先着順になりますので、定員を超えた際にはお断りすることもございますので、予めご了承ください。

尚、今回のミーティングでの概要は下記の内容になります。

①グループで参加者が含んでほしい項目のリスト作成
②コミュニティリーダー選出。
③グループミッションの概要。
④そして…私たちのような他のオタク（この分野の）ユーザーとの交流等。

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■コミュニティーでは今年のSiggraphの際、ロサンゼルスで開かれるスペシャルミーティングについての情報交換を行います。

ミーティングは8月14日（木）13:30です。こちらも詳細につきましては右記にご連絡ください。＜info(at)rendersan.org＞
Siggraphでのミーティングは主に海外での日本のRenderMan®ユーザーそしてRenderMan®を海外でご使用希望の方対象です。また、外国の方でこのコミュニティに興味がある方も参加大歓迎です。もちろん全てのコミュニティメンバーも参加できます。是非ご参加下さい！！

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※これは全くの非営利の団体です。現在は私個人の寄付によって運営しています。
全ての企業、団体からの参加、寄付も募集しております。しかしながら開発者/
　プラットホーム(講演関連)/レンダラー中立グループに限らせていただきます。
　本コミュニティにおいて私自身または、自社を宣伝しません。
　このグループはとても重要で参加者全てにおいて公平なる利に成るもと考えております。
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尚、新規ウェブサイトは只今バグテスト中で、今後たくさんの変更が予想されますのでご注目ください。また、私はフォーラム/メーリングリストも開設しておりますので、やむを得ない理由において時差的な関係で正規サポートにコンタクトが困難な時や、日本のソフトとの相互性などによる問題などお互いに助け合い、ご協力できましたら幸いでございます。

さらに日本でRenderMan®ユーザーのRenderMan®使用法などを紹介するニュースエリアを開設したいと考えています。またコミュニティで活動をしたい方のためのコード、シェアイメージなどプライベートエリアも新設します。

また、もし翻訳のお手伝い可能な方がいらっしゃいましたら、サイトを出来る限りの多言語にすることによって私たちのコミュニティ外からの方にも、私たちの手懸けたものや影響力を理解頂けると考えております。

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■登録ご希望、興味のある方は下記までお気軽にご連絡ください。
もちろん登録料は一切かかりません。＜info(at)rendersan.org＞


以上、何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます。

日本RenderMan®ユーザー
バナード　エドリントン

RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar

call to the RenderMan® community of Japan

RSVP：＜info(at)rendersan.org＞　
This event is open all, however you must RSVP.
No RSVP means no entry on the day.

Tine: June 28 (Sat) 18:30 - 20:30

Address： Room 7 3-37-1 Hamamacho Nihonbashi Chuo-Ku Tokyo Japan

Phone: 03-6323-9538

Seating: 100 people

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Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Ningyocho Sta A1 exit　walk 15min
Tokyo Metro Hanzoumon Line Suitengumae Sta Exit 4　walk 9min
Tokyo Metro Hanzoumon Line Suitengumae Sta Exit 5　walk 10min
Toei Shinjuku Line Hamacho Sta A2 exit walk 5min
City bus「11 Kinshicho Station − Tsukiji Station」Hamacho 2chome stop walk 2min

In an effort to stimulate growth in the Japanese Rendeman user community I am proposing a new community.
the RenderMan® community of Japan.

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■The goals I propose are:
To further the use and knowledge of the RenderMan® standard in Japan and for those with an interest of RenderMan® use in Japan.
By RenderMan® I mean the technical specification and not any particular version of RenderMan®, so I mean:
AIR, Aqsis, BMRT, Entropy, Gelato, Pixie, PRman, RenderDotC, 3delight
and pretty much anything that follows the RenderMan® standard. Also covering topics related to RenderMan® and the development around it for it for example:
C, C++, TCL, Python, Liquid, Renderfarms, GL tricks, DSO's, OS, converters, Hardware etc...
As a group our needs will be clearer to vendors of RenderMan®, they gain and we gain.

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■The first meeting will be held on Saturday the 28th of June at 18:30.
For more details please RSVP ＜info(at)rendersan.org＞

This will be an outline meeting the following will take place:
①List of the things you would like covered by this group.
②Vote for the leader(s) of this community.
③Outline our mission.
④And ..... meet other geeky people, like yourself.

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■The second will be a special meeting in Los Angeles at this years Siggraph.

The meeting will be held on Thursday 14 August at 13:30.
Again for more details please RSVP ＜info(at)rendersan.org＞

The Siggraph meeting will be primarily to involve Japanese RenderMan® users who are abroad and those who wish to use RenderMan® abroad. Also foreigners with an interest in this community are welcome to attend. Of course all community members are invited, so please attend!

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※This entirely for non profit, currently paid for
by my own donations. Any corporation may attend,
donate etc., however I would like this to be
vendor/platform/Renderer neutral group. I do not
wish to promote my own or any other business in
this community, this is important so we can all
benefit in a fair manner.
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The new web site is in bug testing right now, so expect a lot of changes in the coming weeks.

I will also be having a forum/mailing list so we can try to help out each other with problems that are Japanese specific or time critical.
-within reason of course.
I would also like to have a news area showing how people in Japan use RenderMan®. I would also like a private area for those who wish to work on community code, share images etc..

If possible for those who can help translate, I would like to have the site as multilingual as possible, so others from outside our community can understand the power of our work.

You can contact me regarding interest to join - yes its %100 free at
＜info(at)rendersan.org＞

RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar

RenderSanミーティング#4

RenderSan及び月例CG/Film/Game/HCIパーティーについて
ご存知の方もいらっしゃるかもしれませんが、私は東京にて毎5-8週に1度のペースで私の同業界人を集めてさまざまなイベントを行っています。
今月につきましては、この2つを一緒に同日にまとめて行ってみようと思います。
2つの会をよりよく行えるように7pmからオタクなRenderSanセッションを行います。
RenderMan関連の情報をご希望でない方及び情報抜きで、ただ参加をご希望の方はRenderSan後のディナー9pm～に参加いただけます。
恒例になっております海外からのスペシャルゲスト1人目はPeter Moxom氏、Pixarからです（前回のゲストだったRenderManの神様 Tonyではありませんが）Pixarの有効情報などを紹介していただける方です。
海外からのスペシャルゲスト2人目はハリウッドで生き残った素晴らしいAlex Brodie氏イギリス人の天才です。（アップル iPod　シルエットCM）
２人ともにすばらしい方々なので奮ってご参加ください。

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RenderSan講習会
日本RenderManユーザーコミュニティ（RenderManはPixar社の登録商標です。）
スケジュール： 主催者：　バナード　エドリントン
Shading Languageの基本：　平光 勝明
Pixarからのゲストトーク：　Peter Moxom
定員: 80名
日時: 5月20日　水曜日 19:00-20:45
会費: ￥0
場所: SGI Hall
〒150-6031
東京都渋谷区恵比寿4-20-3
恵比寿ガーデンプレイスタワー B1F
地図
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またバーニーの月例東京フィルム/CG/ゲーム/他　メーカーディナー（TokyoGAF Party）
ビールホール飲み飲み
定員: 90名
日時: 5月20日　水曜日 21:00-23:00
会費: ￥3000-￥5000程度(ワリカン)
場所: ビヤステーション恵比寿
〒150-0013
東京都渋谷区恵比寿4-20-3
ガーデンプレイス内
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参加ご希望の方はお手数ですが 5月17日　10pmまでにこちらにご返信ください:
http://www.nexusinternational.jp/reserveJP.htm

RenderSan meeting #4

Combined RenderSan and monthly CG/Film/Game/HCI party.
You may know I run a bunch of events for people in our field every 5-8 weeks in Tokyo.

I will be combining 2 of them on the same day for this month.
The way I will work it is we will do the ultra geeky RenderSan seminar at 7pm.
For those of you who just want to mingle and don't want to listen to RenderMan related things can attend the post RenderSan dinner at 9pm.
Like always I have special guests from overseas lined up (no not last weeks GOD of RenderMan Tony) Peter Moxom who may have some Pixar goodies to share.
The second guest is Alex Brodie a wonderful Brit post genius (Apple iPod silhouette CM) who survived Hollywood.
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#1 RenderSan seminar
RenderSan the RenderMan user community of Japan (RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar)
Sched: opening by RenderSan President Bernard Edlington
Shading Language fundamentals Katsuaki Hiramitsu
Guest talk from Pixar's Peter Moxom
Limit: 80
Time: Wednesday May 20 19:00-20:45
Cost: 0 Yen
Place: Silicon graphics Hall
150-6031
Tokyo-To Shibuya-Ku Ebisu 4-20-3
Ebisu Garden Place Tower B1F
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#2 Bernies monthly Tokyo film/CG/Game/(etc) makers dinner. (TokyoGAF Party).
Beer hall drinkies ;P
limit: 90
Time: Wednesday May 20 21:00-23:00
Cost: around 3000-5000 yen (we split the bill)
Place: Beer station Ebisu

150-0013
Tokyo-To Shibuya-Ku Ebisu 4-20
Yebisu Garden Place
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To attend please rsvp before May 17th here:
http://www.nexusinternational.jp/reserveEN.htm

RenderSan Dai3

I was truly humbled by the wonderful community spirit that was shown at RenderSan.
Thank you so much Yosuke Katsura, David Lin, Jun Saito, and Syoyo Fujita for speaking with me at this months RenderSan.
And thank you so much SGI Japan for the BEST venue ever!
We had a turnout of around 40, not bad for a long weekend where about 20 couldn't make it. Next time lets make it the 60 it should have been ok!
Even my speech went sort of well(!!!!) and I am usually awful at speaking in front of large audiences! I may actually be getting the hang of this kinda thing after all.
We started off with Yosuke giving a demo with Maya for 3delight and Mayaman. He explained a little of rib and shader information, just enough so newbies wouldn't run and pro users understood the difference between converters.
Next up was David with his wonderful demo with Houdini - the great package that needs NO converter.

Then was me, I gave a small demo with 3delight for XSI Studio and RenderMan Pro Studio. I explained how with this wonderful standard you can intertwine all these 3d packages using rib. I read the animation from Davids Houdini demo and opened them up, and lit them in both XSI and Maya. If time permitted I was going to go on to 3 more demos in 3dsMax then Lightwave - but time was not on our side.

Next came some wonderful stuff from Sega. Jun showed and inspired us all how Sega uses Pixar's RenderMan to make the coolest game openings EVER.
Lastly was our special presentation from Fujita San. This is a guy who wrote his OWN RenderMan compliant renderer. Everyone was totally geeked out by this time especially when he showed his interactive GI tricks. - Genius!
Right after, most of us went out to the Ebisu beer hall nearby to have a chat and have fun. Attendees of my regular gatherings made everyone feel part of a true community.
We were the last in the hall on that Saturday night!

Some peoples reactions (with their permission):
from Hiroshi Chiyama san:

Mr. Bernard

I was happy to join RenderSan Meeting #3.It was so exciting.
To tell a truth, I've never used RenderMan and I only know
"It's world's best brilliant renderer :-)".

But, Demonstrations and SEGA's movie excited me.
Especially, I was surprised at particular function that
imports RIB File to scene dynamically. it's amazing!!

Thank you for opening such a wonderful meeting.


RenderSan Meeting #3 に参加することができて、
とても楽しかったです。とても刺激的な会でした。
正直、RenderMan は使ったこともなく、"世界で
一番スゴいレンダラ"というぐらいしか知りませんでした。

しかし、デモンストレーションや SEGA の新作ムービーには
興奮しました。特に RIB ファイルを動的にシーンに取り込む
機能は素晴しいです!今すぐにでも使いたいです。

このような素晴らしいミーティングを開いていただき、
どうもありがとうございました!!

RenderSanミーティング#3

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第三回RenderSanミーティングのお知らせです。
前回お約束いたしました通り、今回は皆さんに何かしら得ていただくためのものにしたいと思っています。
初心者からプロの方までこのイベントでなにか得ていただければ幸いです。
私の計画としましては、シンプルなシーンの例やそれをRenderManへ多通りの方法でコンバートする方法など考えております。
プレゼンターは、多数の異なった3Dパッケージやコンバーター、RenderManレンダラーを使用する予定です。
ということで、あなたが現在使用中のパイプラインとの比較をしていただけますし、またはこれまでにRenderManをお使いになられたことのない方にも今回はRenderMan使用の多様性をご理解いただける良いチャンスになると思います。
学生の方にはRenderManを無料でお試しいただける方法を紹介します。And
またRenderManは標準のものなのでフリーインプリメンテーションから市販のインプリメンテーションへの移行は複雑なものではありません。
マネージャーの方であれば最適なレンダーパイプラインを実施するための方法をご紹介します。
使用する例はすべての方にご理解いただけるシンプルなものです。
RenderMan使用でのパッケージの混合の方法をシンプルな言葉で説明します。
Houdiniのようなダイナミックス使用で、しかしMayaでキャラクターを、さらにXSIをバックグラウンドに使いたい場合などでも、問題ありません。
今回は偏見なし、非営利の私たちのコミュニティ発信のプレゼンをご覧いただける良い機会であると思います。
さらにミーティング終了後には、パーティーも予定していますので、RenderManユーザー同士、お互いに交流できる機会にもなります。
もしお知り合い、ご友人などで今回のミーティングに興味がある方をご存知でしたら是非このメールを転送していただければと思います。

参加ご希望の方はお手数ですが 11/21　12pmまでにご返信ください。rsvp (at) rendersan.org
定員:80名
日時:11/22　18:00-19:30　
場所:SGI Hall
〒150-6031
東京都渋谷区恵比寿4-20-3
恵比寿ガーデンプレイスタワー B1F
http://www.sgi.co.jp/company_info/map1.html

参加費:無料

RenderSan meeting #3

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There are sill a couple of seats available, if you ask nicely ;P I can still accept some RSVP's.
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Announcing the third RenderSan meeting.
I promise this meeting will have something for everyone.
So if you are a novice or a pro, you will gain something from this event.
The fantastic schedule I have planned is to have a simple example
scene and convert it into renderman in many ways.
The presenters will use many different 3d packages, converters, and
renderman renderers.
So whatever pipeline you have used till now you can compare it, or if
you have never used renderman before this will be your chance to see
many ways to use it!
If you are a student we will show you free ways to use RenderMan. And
because RenderMan is a standard it is not very hard to change from a
free implementation to a commercial implementation.
If you are a manager we can show you ways to implement a proper render
pipeline, the standard which most blockbuster movies use.
All examples will be very simple so anyone can understand.
There will be an explanation in simple terms how you can mix packages
using RenderMan.
Like houdini dynamics but want to have a character in Maya and a
background in XSI? - no problem.
This is your chance to see a non-biased, non-commercial presentations
from our community.
And best of all there will be a party later so you can all meet other
renderman geeks.
You can forward this email to your friends if you think they are interested.

To attend please rsvp before 12pm November 21. to: rsvp (at) rendersan.org

Limit: 80 people
Time: 22 November 18:00-19:30
Place: SGI Hall
150-6031
Tokyo-To Shibuya-Ku Ebisu 4-20-3
Ebisu Garden Place Tower B1F
http://www.sgi.co.jp/company_info/map1.html

Cost: free (of course!)

RenderSan community aims

Outline of our community
"RenderSan, the RenderMan® comunity of Japan" as set out by the community June 2008

My name is Bernard Edlington I am the founder of this community, I was voted president by unanimous vote at the first meeting in June 2008.
My term will start from the third meeting which is due September 2008, as the first and second preliminary meetings were organized in advance.
Our long term goals are:

• To create the best RenderMan® community in the world, one which will make users want come to Japan to use RenderMan® with us.
• To join all RenderMan® users in Japan.
• To forge ties with Japanese RenderMan® users and other RenderMan® users around the world.

Our short term goals are:

• By Siggraph Asia 2009 (Japan) to have a meeting larger than the best and largest RenderMan® user meeting we know (Pixar's) which we estimate to be at 300.
• To recruit new users and show them that RenderMan® is the best rendering standard in the world.

These goals were agreed by the community at the first meeting, the short term goals I promise to achieve at or before Siggraph Asia 2009 in Japan.

The way we will run this community and achieve these goals is:

• As much as possible will be done via the internet.
• Some users prefer anonymity, or corporate anonymity so Bernard shall organize a web and forum where this is possible.
• The groups main language shall be Japanese, however where possible we will try to translate as much as possible into English, so users around the world can freely interact. Some meetings will have to be in English for example when foreign speakers are present.
• Membership is open to all people around the world, and leaders will be voted yearly. The only restriction being vendors may not take leadership positions.
  
• • Forums and web communication restricts users to over 14.
• Vendors, dealers and other groups may freely take part in the community
• We are vendor neutral and wish to promote the RenderMan® as a standard in Japan, which means:
• • Vendors may promote their products at the meetings
  • As a group we will not favor any one product over another
  • Vendor time will be given on a first come first served basis
    
• As long as it is in the spirit of the groups non profit aims, to benefit our group and no one individual or company. Funds may be raised by the following means:
• • Fees to special meetings
  • Donations
  • Corporations/event sponsorship
  • Books/software by the group

-RenderSan President & founder Bernard Edlington.

第2回ミーティングのテーマは世界中にレンダーフレンドを作ろうです。

8/14(木)1PM～1:30PM Siggraph内Los Angeles Convention center room 315にて開催します。

30分程度の短時間のインフォーマルなミーティングで世界に日本にも私達RenderMan®ユーザーが存在することを知らしめましょう！
ミーティングには選挙、講習などはありません。英語によるミーティングとなります。(日本語も多少含まれます)あなた自身を売り込んでください。
是非参加いただき、世界から日本へRenderMan®インタレストを促進して行きましょう!
ミーティングはインフォーマルなもので、RenderMan®関係者に紹介していただいたり、彼らによって私達グループを紹介してもらいます。
また新しいRenderMan®の会社やRenderMan®関連のディーラーも参加予定ですので名刺をご持参の上ご参加くださいね。

RenderSan meeting #2 in LA :: theme is Making RenderFriends around the world.

Thursday August 14 1pm-1:30pm at
Siggraph in Los Angeles Convention center room 315.

A quick 30 minute meeting to show the world us RenderMan® guys in Japan exist.
There will be no voting, no talks it will just be a meeting in English to promote each one of you.
Please come along and promote RenderMan® interest in Japan to the world.
This will be an informal meeting, you will be introduced to RenderMan® people and they will be introduced to our group.

RenderSanシンボルマーク・ロゴ・コンペティション

グラフィック
RenderSanは、日本のRenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティー。日本のRenderMan®ユーザーを代表するロゴを募集します。あなたが代表するデザインをしてください。

募集期間
応募締切 2008年7月25日(24:00 JST) 必着

応募・参加
資格 企業団体あるいは個人やグループ。年齢、性別、職業、国籍は問いません。なお、作品は国内外未発表のものに限ります。

賞金
0円(コミュニティー)

募集内容
シンボルマーク・ロゴは、以下の基準を満たすように開発をお願いします

• 日本性： 日本のユーザーのグローバル感が伝わること。
• スケール感： 世界中から注目されているコミュニティーであることが伝わること。
• 意味性： 内容がわかりやすく、覚えやすく、的確に伝達できること。
• 独自性： RenderSanらしさが感じ取れること。高いオリジナリティがあること。
  

提出方法
comp(at)rendersan.org

問い合わせ先
comp(at)rendersan.org

主催
ない

審査員
RenderSan,日本のRenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティー

権利等

1. 採用されたロゴマークに関する版権を含む一切の権利は、RenderSan,日本のRenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティーに帰属することとします。
2. 採用された作品は都合により一部修整することがあります。
3. 応募されたすべての作品は返却致しません。
4. ロゴマークは使用する国で商標登録を予定しています。
   

スケジュール 発　表
2008年8月中旬頃、公式発表後、下記サイトに受賞結果を掲載いたしま。　http://www.rendersan.org

当サイトに掲載している情報は概要のみであり、また、変更・追加されている場合があります。応募の際は、詳細な内容と最新情報を主催者のウェブサイト等で必ずご確認下さい comp(at)rendersan.org。

RenderSan symbol / logo competition

Symbol/logo competition information:

Graphic
RenderSan is RenderMan® user community in Japan.
The logo should represent RenderMan® users in Japan. Please create a design that represents your style.

Deadline
Application deadline July 25, 2008 (24:00 JST)

Application and participation
Qualification may be any corporate group, individuals or groups. We do not need to know your age, sex, occupation or nationality. This competition is open to any unpublished entries in and outside Japan.

Prize
0 yen (community effort)

Application details
Please develop the symbol/logo to fill the following criteria.

• Japanesque: Should transmit an image of the Japanese RenderMan® user to a global audience.
• Scale: Should also bring attention to the Japanese RenderMan® community from all over the world.
• Global: Content should be able to be comprehensible, it to be easy remember, and to transmit it's idea adequately.
• Originality: The symbol/logo should convey the impression "RenderSan", with great originality.
  

Submitting method
email: comp(at)rendersan.org

Inquiries
email: comp(at)rendersan.org

Sponsors
None

Judging
RenderSan and RenderMan® user community in Japan

Rights etc

1. All rights including the copyright concerning the symbol/logo adopted are assumed to belong to RenderSan and the RenderMan® user community in Japan.
2. Any part of the chosen work may be retouched by convenience.
3. All applications will not be returned.
4. The logo mark may be the registration mark each country of use.
   

Announcement
After the initial official announcement, The winning result will be published in the following site around the middle of August, 2008. http://www.rendersan.org

Information published in this site is only an outline, and it is likely to be modified. To confirm a more detailed content and latest information you should mail comp(at)rendersan.org .

第1回日本RenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティーミーティング

RSVP：＜info(at)rendersan.org＞　
当日RSVPが、無い場合はご入場出来ませんので、
あらかじめ、ご連絡下さいますよう、宜しくお願い致します。
皆様のご来場を心よりお待ちしております。
※尚、先着順となっておりますので、ご入場出来ない
場合がございますが、その際は何卒ご了承下さいませ。

時間： 6月28日(土) 18:30 - 20:30

住所： 103-0007 東京都中央区日本橋浜町三丁目37番1号 七号室

電話番号： 03-6323-9538

着席：最大 100人

東京メトロ日比谷線人形町駅下車A1番出口　徒歩15分
東京メトロ半蔵門線水天宮前駅下車4番出口　徒歩9分
東京メトロ半蔵門線水天宮前駅下車5番出口　徒歩10分
都営地下鉄新宿線浜町駅下車A2番出口　徒歩5分
都バス「錦11錦糸町駅−築地駅」浜町二丁目下車　徒歩2分

日本のRenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティーの成長を活気づけるための手段として、
新しいコミュニティーのご提案をさせて頂きます。日本RenderMan®コミュニティーでございます。

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■ご提案内容につきまして

日本でRenderMan® standardの知識、また更なる活用をお求めの方、または日本でのRenderMan®使用に興味のある方、ここで言うRenderMan®とはつまり、特別にどのRenderMan®バージョンとというわけではなく以下に記載されている、
AIR, Aqsis, BMRT, Entropy, Gelato, Pixie, PRman, RenderDotC, 3delightや、そしてRenderMan® standardに伴うものを指します。
またRenderMan®に関連するトピックや次に記すその周辺関連開発についてもカバー致します。
（参考例）
C, C++, TCL, Python, Liquid, Renderfarms, GL tricks, DSO's, OS,コンバーター, ハードウェア等...
グループとしてはRenderMan®開発者へ、私たちのニーズを明確化し、業界の活性化と相互的な向上を目指します。

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■第1回日本RenderMan®ユーザーコミュニティーミーティングの開催につきまして。

第1回目のミーティングは6月28日（土）18:30に開催します。

詳細につきましては下記にご返信ください。
＜info(at)rendersan.org＞
※先着順になりますので、定員を超えた際にはお断りすることもございますので、予めご了承ください。

尚、今回のミーティングでの概要は下記の内容になります。

①グループで参加者が含んでほしい項目のリスト作成
②コミュニティリーダー選出。
③グループミッションの概要。
④そして…私たちのような他のオタク（この分野の）ユーザーとの交流等。

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■コミュニティーでは今年のSiggraphの際、ロサンゼルスで開かれるスペシャルミーティングについての情報交換を行います。

ミーティングは8月14日（木）13:30です。こちらも詳細につきましては右記にご連絡ください。＜info(at)rendersan.org＞
Siggraphでのミーティングは主に海外での日本のRenderMan®ユーザーそしてRenderMan®を海外でご使用希望の方対象です。また、外国の方でこのコミュニティに興味がある方も参加大歓迎です。もちろん全てのコミュニティメンバーも参加できます。是非ご参加下さい！！

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※これは全くの非営利の団体です。現在は私個人の寄付によって運営しています。
全ての企業、団体からの参加、寄付も募集しております。しかしながら開発者/
　プラットホーム(講演関連)/レンダラー中立グループに限らせていただきます。
　本コミュニティにおいて私自身または、自社を宣伝しません。
　このグループはとても重要で参加者全てにおいて公平なる利に成るもと考えております。
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尚、新規ウェブサイトは只今バグテスト中で、今後たくさんの変更が予想されますのでご注目ください。また、私はフォーラム/メーリングリストも開設しておりますので、やむを得ない理由において時差的な関係で正規サポートにコンタクトが困難な時や、日本のソフトとの相互性などによる問題などお互いに助け合い、ご協力できましたら幸いでございます。

さらに日本でRenderMan®ユーザーのRenderMan®使用法などを紹介するニュースエリアを開設したいと考えています。またコミュニティで活動をしたい方のためのコード、シェアイメージなどプライベートエリアも新設します。

また、もし翻訳のお手伝い可能な方がいらっしゃいましたら、サイトを出来る限りの多言語にすることによって私たちのコミュニティ外からの方にも、私たちの手懸けたものや影響力を理解頂けると考えております。

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■登録ご希望、興味のある方は下記までお気軽にご連絡ください。
もちろん登録料は一切かかりません。＜info(at)rendersan.org＞


以上、何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます。

日本RenderMan®ユーザー
バナード　エドリントン

RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar

The first Japan RenderMan® users community meeting

RSVP：＜info(at)rendersan.org＞　
This event is open all, however you must RSVP.
No RSVP means no entry on the day.

Tine: June 28 (Sat) 18:30 - 20:30

Address： Room 7 3-37-1 Hamamacho Nihonbashi Chuo-Ku Tokyo Japan

Phone: 03-6323-9538

Seating: 100 people

View Larger Map

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Ningyocho Sta A1 exit　walk 15min
Tokyo Metro Hanzoumon Line Suitengumae Sta Exit 4　walk 9min
Tokyo Metro Hanzoumon Line Suitengumae Sta Exit 5　walk 10min
Toei Shinjuku Line Hamacho Sta A2 exit walk 5min
City bus「11 Kinshicho Station − Tsukiji Station」Hamacho 2chome stop walk 2min

In an effort to stimulate growth in the Japanese Rendeman user community I am proposing a new community.
the RenderMan® community of Japan.

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■The goals I propose are:
To further the use and knowledge of the RenderMan® standard in Japan and for those with an interest of RenderMan® use in Japan.
By RenderMan® I mean the technical specification and not any particular version of RenderMan®, so I mean:
AIR, Aqsis, BMRT, Entropy, Gelato, Pixie, PRman, RenderDotC, 3delight
and pretty much anything that follows the RenderMan® standard. Also covering topics related to RenderMan® and the development around it for it for example:
C, C++, TCL, Python, Liquid, Renderfarms, GL tricks, DSO's, OS, converters, Hardware etc...
As a group our needs will be clearer to vendors of RenderMan®, they gain and we gain.

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■The first meeting will be held on Saturday the 28th of June at 18:30.
For more details please RSVP ＜info(at)rendersan.org＞

This will be an outline meeting the following will take place:
①List of the things you would like covered by this group.
②Vote for the leader(s) of this community.
③Outline our mission.
④And ..... meet other geeky people, like yourself.

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■The second will be a special meeting in Los Angeles at this years Siggraph.

The meeting will be held on Thursday 14 August at 13:30.
Again for more details please RSVP ＜info(at)rendersan.org＞

The Siggraph meeting will be primarily to involve Japanese RenderMan® users who are abroad and those who wish to use RenderMan® abroad. Also foreigners with an interest in this community are welcome to attend. Of course all community members are invited, so please attend!

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※This entirely for non profit, currently paid for
by my own donations. Any corporation may attend,
donate etc., however I would like this to be
vendor/platform/Renderer neutral group. I do not
wish to promote my own or any other business in
this community, this is important so we can all
benefit in a fair manner.
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The new web site is in bug testing right now, so expect a lot of changes in the coming weeks.

I will also be having a forum/mailing list so we can try to help out each other with problems that are Japanese specific or time critical.
-within reason of course.
I would also like to have a news area showing how people in Japan use RenderMan®. I would also like a private area for those who wish to work on community code, share images etc..

If possible for those who can help translate, I would like to have the site as multilingual as possible, so others from outside our community can understand the power of our work.

You can contact me regarding interest to join - yes its %100 free at
＜info(at)rendersan.org＞

RenderMan is a registered trademark of Pixar