The myth suggests that RenderMan is a "glitch" or a spectral figure that appears in single-player or sparsely populated servers. According to community lore:
It was my face.
I shrugged it off. RenderMan is industry standard; it’s the engine behind Pixar movies. It’s robust, mathematical, clean. I loaded the scene, put the chair in a void, and hit render.
It was synthesizing flesh.
I think I’m in the trash bin now. But I can still see the render buckets moving across my vision. I’m waiting for them to resolve.
At first, it looked the same. But as the bucket renderer slowly washed over the image, I noticed something in the wood grain. RenderMan is famous for its subsurface scattering—the way light filters through translucent materials like skin or wax.
