KATANA delivers an asset-based approach to look development and lighting that gives you the creative scope and scalability to meet the needs of today’s most demanding CG projects.

KATANA’s node-based approach allows for rapid turnaround of high complexity shots, while keeping you in control and reducing in-house development overheads. Extensive APIs also mean that it integrates effortlessly with a variety of renderers and your pre-existing shader libraries and workflow tools, letting you work the way you want with a familiar toolset.


 Why KATANA?
• Bring scalability to your pipeline with deferred processing that allows for the handling of extremely high scene complexity

• Avoid the need for lots of shot-specific asset variants by creating re-usable ‘recipes’ for the look development of an asset or the lighting of a       shot

• Share lighting set-ups like edits and overrides between different shots and sequences

• Construct custom pipelines for 3D scenes as easily as a compositing script with KATANA’s natural node-based approach

• Add any renderer as a plug-in, whether custom or supported

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