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When developing software you always have to determine scalability. In a production situation, however, there is a standard that must be met. Your software has to be reliable while still being immensly flexible. Through the creation of Agents and other smaller software that needed to be production-ready, I've been able to extract out some of the key elements needed for flexibility. The rest of the article is aimed at explaining each of the elements and some implementation details as well.
Renderman has long been a complicated beast. However, with its frequent use in the movie and commercial industry, many are required to use it. This article will therefore give the reader an introduction to Renderman and help to remove some of the major pitfalls that people run into.
