Finalist for Pixar’s RenderMan Art Challenge 2026 Diorama Drama; see this repo for project details.
My entry started from a dream: drifting like a piece of paper during a restless sleep. As a first-time RenderMan user, I worked with Claude Code, an AI coding agent, to script the whole Blender and RenderMan pipeline: converting the challenge assets, building the layout, writing the OSL shader that fractures the newspaper, and packaging the scene for cloud XPU rendering. I focused on the story, composition, and art direction. Feedback from the RenderMan team on Discord shaped the final image, from the old woman’s drooping pose to the black background and image format, and the cloud rendering let me finish in XPU on a laptop that couldn’t run it natively.