Renders and You!

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-state-of-rendering-part-2/#renderman

Light Study Articles

http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm

a quick look at the major shaders that i will be using often

From the top is Blinn, which is a major shader for me, however the one i work on it is a much complex version of this basic shader.

next from the the bottom is anisotropic, lambert, and then phong. and the far right is stewart from http://www.animationmentor.com/free-maya-rig/

a quick observation is that blinn and phong as some similar characteristic. so there is a few minor difference which i will be looking in to it.

we will look closer for this 4 specific shader as i blog by so stay tune!