Tutorials

Getting Started

The very basics: downloading and installing appleseed, starting up appleseed.studio and rendering the built-in Cornell Box scene.

We are actively working on additional tutorials. Thanks for your patience.

Reference Documentation

appleseed Apps, Plugins and Tools

• appleseed for Blender
• appleseed for Maya
• appleseed.studio
• makefluffy

appleseed OSL Nodes

• appleseed OSL Nodes
• Supported Maya HyperShade Nodes

Disney BRDF & Material

Disney’s principled BRDF model is available in appleseed in two forms: as a standard appleseed BRDF (“Disney BRDF”), and as a custom layered material (“Disney Material”).

The best reference for the Disney reflection model is probably RenderMan’s PxrDisney documentation.

SeExpr

appleseed’s Disney material allows using arbitrary expressions for any of its inputs. Expressions follow Disney’s SeExpr syntax. Please refer the SeExpr User Documentation for details.

Wiki

The wiki on GitHub also contains documentation that you may find useful.

Conference Materials

FMX 2015

Franz was invited by Filmakademie to present appleseed at FMX 2015 during a one hour talk.

Here are the slides and the appleseed.studio lookdev video used during the talk:

• Slides (PowerPoint 2013): appleseed-fmx-2015-no-videos.pptx
• Slides with comments (PDF): appleseed-fmx-2015-slides-comments.pdf
• Higher quality slides without comments (PDF): appleseed-fmx-2015-slides-no-comments.pdf
• Lookdev screencast shown during the talk: Interactive lookdev inside appleseed.studio