Learning Renderman For Maya

[nadine]

I would like to get into renderman. What is the best way of beginning? I am currently learning Maya so I was thinking of buying RFM 3.0 as a starting point and getting into Renderman Pro Server from there.

Sound like a plan?

Does anybody know of decent renderman DVD tutorials? Any thoughts/Advice - appreciated,

thanks

[codewarrior]

Found some helpfulls in Youtube:

(you should look for furthers by yourself too)

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39S1X0Iudk

- http://www.youtube.com/results?search\_type=search\_playlists&search\_query=renderman+tutorial&uni=1

[nadine]

I have been looking at these books:

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-RenderMan%C2%AE-Ian-Stephenson/dp/1846283442/ref=sr\_1\_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262045497&sr=8-4

http://www.amazon.com/Rendering-Beginners-Image-synthesis-RenderMan/dp/0240519353/ref=sr\_1\_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262045497&sr=8-5

Its more into the coding? side of renderman (as opposed to just RFM) but its a good place to start I suppose...If anyone else (whos starting out)  is thinking of these books - I would recommend buying them on the strength of the samples I have read and the reviews on the site..