With its highly efficient, collaborative approach to look development and lighting, Katana gives you
the creative scope and scalability to meet the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.


Reduce artist downtime
Katana’s deferred loading and processing lets you get to work immediately, so you can spend more time
being creative and less time twiddling your thumbs.


Share the workload
Katana’s flexible node-graph and rule-based workflows lets you naturally build up templates as you
work, which you can then easily share with other team members or reuse on other shots.


Keep your assets accessible
Katana’s streamlined, artist-friendly approach removes the need to bake assets out into render-ready
formats, keeping them easily accessible for last-minute changes.


Work in parallel to finish faster
With Katana’s Look Files, material instructions and texture map assignments are packaged as separate
assets, so you can separately update look-development and animation data.


Choose your renderer
Use your renderer of choice, with a unified workflow for Renderman, V-Ray, Arnold and 3Delight, or
add your own renderer.
You can even work with multiple renderers while keeping a consistent artist workflow.


The perfect fit for your pipeline
Integrate, automate or customize Katana to fit your pipeline and processes with extensive C and
Python APIs, and support for open standards like Alembic and OpenColorIO.


Hydra Powered Viewport
Katana features a modern and powerful viewport driven, by the PIXAR USD Hydra technology designed
to work with with modern graphics cards, handle massive scale, and allow PBR lighting and shading.


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