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At the end of each day we hope you can go home on time and look forward to another day of creating, solving artistic challenges, and knowing the tools are there to support you and your goals. We're excited to see the amazing work you produce using RenderMan and the awards and accolades our customers have earned over the last 30 years inspires us to continue to do more–with our customers.
-The RenderMan Team
Post Script
For those of you wondering about this development process from Pixar to you, maybe this fun beer example will help (because beer always helps)
Imagine you've made the best automatic beer delivery system for your home. At the touch of a button a machine brings you a frosty bottle from the fridge to the livingroom. I think you can agree that such an invention would be in high demand! Well, sure enough your friends come over to visit and they get to see it in action. Wow! Can they get one too?!
Sure, you say. You'll get started on that.
But wait, one of your friends buys beer in a can, not a bottle. Can you make that work?
Another friend has his seating area upstiars, can this deliver beer up a flight of steps?
A different friend has a side by side fridge, so his beer is on a different shelf, what about that?
A friend of a friend doesn't drink beer, can it deliver milk?
Oh, well...ok that gets kind of complicated doesn't it? What's happened is you've gone from a very specific pipeline problem (your fridge to your couch) to needing a general solution (whatever beverage to whatever area in houses of different sizes and arrangements). This requires much more research and development to come up with a useful and robust solution to as many scenarios as you can imagine! So many options, so many details, so many requests! This may give you a bit of insight into the world of software development. If you're an artist you may be able to use this example to understand how our partnership can help provide the best overall solutions for artists everywhere and the complexity involved. But we love the challenge!