I was lucky enough to attend the free Renderman seminar at the Bafta theatre in London on Tuesday...Wow! These guys are super awesome. They went through all the new features of Reyes vs. RIS, talked about the new Disney Research Sub Surface Scattering techniques (will be fully implemented in 19.1), volumetric lighting, new instancing implementation etc etc. Some of the stuff Per Christensen demo'd was really good...and most of the tech behind it went straight over my head!

We also go to see the full length new short Lava and got to see some of the new lighting look dev they are doing with Katana 2.0 on 'Finding Dory'...

Also had some demos from Double Negative on Ant-Man.

All well worth the train ticket to London...and I got a free poster! =)