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Student Special for Pixar's RenderMan Certified Courseware

Students may now purchase Pixar's courseware for only $100

Learning Pixar's RenderMan is now more accessible than ever before with Pixar's new student discount. Students can now afford to get instant access to a wealth of RenderMan knowledge including theory, tutorials and real world production examples from industry giants like Industrial Light and Magic, Weta Digital and Pixar Animation Studios.

"Great resource! There's so much experience in here, I wish I'd spent the last 10 years at the beach and then just read this!"
—
Martin Hill, Shader Supervisor
Weta Digital.

Use the simple navigation or search facility to explore over 100 individual topics ranging from Rendering Fur and Motion Blur to Brickmaps and Shader Writing. All of the material is cross-referenced so that it's easy to see how the topics relate to one another, giving you freedom to extend your knowledge further.

Students are able to make the most for their education by purchasing Pixar's RenderMan Certified Courseware for just $99.  If you would like to purchase the courseware or would like more information please contact Escape's software manager, Graeme.  Please note you will need to provide a copy of your student ID before being able to purchase the courseware.

Request the Special Student Discount

About Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation. Creator of some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and most recently, WALL•E. The Northern California studio has won 21 Academy Awards® and its nine films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The next film release from Disney/Pixar is UP (May 29, 2009).

About Escape Studios
Escape Studios has built a global reputation delivering premium training, recruitment, software and hardware services to the computer graphics community. The London based company boasts one of the world's foremost schools of computer animation and visual effects. Unlike anywhere else in the world Escape's partnerships with top studios gives students the opportunity to work on 'live' visual effects and games projects such as Battlefield 360 (X-Box 360) and The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian. In addition, their knowledge and experience has positioned Escape Studios as the leading visual effects recruiter in the UK and Europe's largest reseller for Autodesk® Maya®, Pixar's RenderMan® and Boxx Technologies®.

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