Acknowledgments

I would like to say thanks to my family: my father, Giuseppe, and my mother, Licia, for giving me the possibility to follow what I always thought was my path in life, and my wonderful wife, Micaela, and my beautiful daughters, Sara and Elisa, for being there and encouraging me in the making of this book.

Then, I would like to thank (obviously) Ton Roosendaal for Blender and Brecht Van Lommel for Cycles. Also, I would like to thank all the "Blender-heads" at the Blender Artist and Kino3d forums for all the testing, experiments, explanations, and examples about feature and material creation in Cycles that were (and still are) often posted almost at the same time as they were implemented in the software.