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Foundry Katana gets significant overhaul

Katana, Foundry’s professional lighting and look development software is a powerful tool developed for cinematic and video production teams. As a procedural, asset-based tool, Katana enables people on a project to work with specific elements of a scene without interfering with each other’s work. True to the Foundry’s workflow approach, Katana relies on a node-graph, which is akin to creating ...

Kathleen Maher

Katana, Foundry’s professional lighting and look development software is a powerful tool developed for cinematic and video production teams. As a procedural, asset-based tool, Katana enables people on a project to work with specific elements of a scene without interfering with each other’s work. True to the Foundry’s workflow approach, Katana relies on a node-graph, which is akin to creating a repeatable recipe that can be reused by other artists and is trackable. Foundry has rebuilt Katana with version 3.5 so that the program is faster enabling artists to iterate faster. The program supports all major renderers and images can
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