Foundry Katana

Katana is a powerful node-based look development and lighting tool for visual effects and animation. Placeholder description - update with actual details about your work on Katana.

Originally developed at Sony Pictures Imageworks and acquired by The Foundry in 2009, Katana provides a flexible node-based architecture for building complex lighting and rendering workflows. It offers powerful scene graph manipulation, procedural workflows, and seamless integration with industry-standard renderers including RenderMan, Arnold, and V-Ray. Katana has been used on numerous Academy Award-winning films and is trusted by major VFX studios worldwide for its scalability in handling massive production scenes.