Katana 4.0 Reveal Shows Major New Features Coming Fall 2020
At the recent Foundry Live event, the Katana team shared a sneak peek at their ground-breaking new lookdev and lighting software release slated for later this year.
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Making Myth Real: Breathing Light Into ‘White Snake’
For Beijing-based Light Chaser Animation, Foundry has played an essential role in the studio’s growing success in producing visually compelling and beautifully designed CG animated feature films.
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Foundry Releases Katana 3.6 with Powerful UI Updates
Advancements in 3Delight NSI 2.0 include powerful toon shading toolset, overhauled live rendering and new texturing tools.
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Foundry Releases Katana 3.5
Core engine rewrite boasts faster operations; new USD integration tools and customized shading groups among numerous other improvements
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Method Studios Helps Recreate Racing History in ‘Ford v Ferrari’
Led by VFX supervisor Dave Morley, the studio delivered more than 700 shots for James Mangold’s faithful and exciting depiction of the famous 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 23
New release delivers next level artist interactivity, enhanced USD support and Houdini 18 Solaris integration.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Spreads More Than Its Wings in ‘The Angry Birds Movie 2’
For first-time VFX supervisor Stirling Duguid, animating water, lava, pig snot and millions of feathers was only part of the fun producing the sequel to Rovio’s 2016 animated hit, ‘The Angry Birds.’
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Luma Pictures Takes Molten Man and Cyclone into the Cloud on ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
VFX producer Michael Perdew shares how Google Cloud was integral in the studio’s Air and Fire Elementals production work on the hit superhero action adventure.
Foundry Names Jody Madden As New CEO
Company veteran has held several senior executive positions prior to taking the helm, effective immediately.
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It’s Full Steam Ahead for Foundry’s Post-Acquisition Mission
For co-founder and chief scientist Simon Robinson, Roper Technologies’ company purchase better enables the patient, long-term management perspective needed to successfully innovate and support a rapidly changing digital content creation industry.
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Set Visit: Go Behind the Scenes of LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’
AWN delivers a close-up look at the production for the Oregon stop-motion studio’s biggest, most sophisticated and largest-scale animated feature yet, arriving in theatres on April 12.
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Autodesk Introduces Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU in Public Beta
Arnold now brings artists the power and flexibility of CPU and GPU rendering in a single renderer.
Foundry Releases Katana 3.1
Latest version, now available, includes significant performance enhancements, 3Delight NSI integrated rendering and full VFXRP 2017 standard compliance.
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Foundry Giving Students Free Year of Software
Two new initiatives aimed at aspiring artists will provide one-year licenses for five programs.
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Pixar Releases Non-Commercial RenderMan Version 22
Interactive ‘live rendering’ highlights latest update, which is free for all education, research, personal projects and evaluations.
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Solid Angle Introduces Arnold 5.2
New release of Academy Award-winning rendering software includes new Cell Noise shader, multi-threaded Adaptive Subdivision, Texture Baking, and deeper integration with Cryptomatte.
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Foundry to Showcase Industry Excellence at SIGGRAPH 2018
‘Women in Technology’ spotlight series to include presentations from Janelle Croshaw Ralla, Kelsey Hurley and Renee Tam.
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Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 22
New release delivers interactive performance and state-of-the-art features, laying the groundwork for integration with Universal Scene Description technology.
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Foundry Partners With Google Cloud for Cloud-Based Pipeline Tool Athera
Pairing will allow users to work with multiple VFX applications in the cloud.
Crossing the Uncanny Valley: MPC Crafts CG Rachael for ‘Blade Runner 2049’
VFX supervisor Richard Clegg raises the bar on photorealistic digital doubles in Denis Villeneuve's hit follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi classic directed by Ridley Scott.
Highly Suitable Work: Luma Pictures Tackles ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
VFX supervisor Kevin Souls leads Los Angeles and Melbourne teams handling almost 500 key shots on the first ‘Spider-Man’ film within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Conductor Launches at SIGGRAPH 2017
The new cloud rendering platform by Conductor Technologies enables VFX, VR and animation studios to cut costs and boost capacity by offloading render workloads to the cloud.
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Foundry’s Katana 3.0 to Include New Rendering Plugin 3Delight
Completely shareable between Katana and Maya, innovative shading engine is allows for direct transfer of look development between digital content creation apps.
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Foundry Unveils Star-Studded Line-up for SIGGRAPH 2017
All-star event showcasing new Elara and Bunsen products alongside industry-leading tools Nuke, Modo, Katana and Cara VR to feature special guests Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, Marvel Studios, id Software, and more.
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Foundry and J Cube Partner to Improve Katana and Maya Pipelines
The software developer and R&D company work to boost the CG ecosystem with seamless and fast data transfer of layouts and geometry between 3D applications, as well as look to address wider industry problems, such as proper motion blur render of varying meshes in Maya and Katana.
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