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Description

Swift and powerful, Katana emerges as a premier tool for look development and lighting, adeptly addressing creative challenges with both intensity and simplicity. It equips artists with the freedom and scalability necessary to meet the demands of today's intricate CG-rendering projects. With its state-of-the-art Lighting Tools, users can illuminate entire sequences of shots rapidly, leveraging Katana’s industry-leading multi-shot workflows. The Foresight Rendering capabilities of Katana, featuring Multiple Simultaneous Renders and Networked Interactive Rendering, deliver scalable feedback that accelerates the iteration process for artists. Designed to enhance the look development of both standout and high-volume assets, Katana also fosters seamless collaboration in shot production. Its technology, optimized for USD, integrates smoothly with various APIs, five commercial renderers, and an open-sourced Shotgun TK integration, establishing Katana as an indispensable tool in any production pipeline. In an ever-evolving landscape, Katana consistently adapts, ensuring artists can achieve innovative visual storytelling with greater efficiency.

Description

Kray stands out as a cutting-edge global illumination renderer that facilitates swift and precise scene rendering, especially in environments where indirect lighting is crucial. It incorporates the latest algorithms and enhancements, enabling it to efficiently generate comprehensive global illumination effects, including reflections, refractions, and caustics, on standard computing systems. The renderer boasts rapid global illumination techniques such as light/photon mapping, which, while biased, provides impressive speed with minimal dependency on ray recursion counts; path tracing, which is unbiased and employs various sampling optimizations; and irradiance caching, designed for fast, view-independent storage of reusable GI solutions, along with caustics management. It features diverse light models, including point, directional, line, area, background lights, HDR image-based lighting, and the ability to pre-sample lights. Additionally, it supports instancing, permitting the efficient reuse of the same geometry across multiple locations in the rendered scene with minimal memory usage. Remarkably, instanced geometry can even be instantiated further, allowing for self-cloning capabilities with a user-defined number of recursions, making Kray a versatile tool for advanced rendering tasks.

API Access

Has API No 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

3Delight Yes 
5X Yes 
Axis LMS Yes 
Built2Buy Yes 
Canopy Yes 
Cerebro Yes 
Debutify Theme Yes 
ElectroNeek Yes 
MKWork Manager Yes 
Redshift Yes 
RenderMan Yes 
Spark Cloud Studio Yes 
Vergo Yes 
Zoey Yes 
extrakt.AI Yes 

Integrations

3Delight No 
5X No 
Axis LMS No 
Built2Buy No 
Canopy No 
Cerebro No 
Debutify Theme No 
ElectroNeek No 
MKWork Manager No 
Redshift No 
RenderMan No 
Spark Cloud Studio No 
Vergo No 
Zoey No 
extrakt.AI No 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

€70 per unit
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Foundry

Founded

1996

Country

United Kingdom

Website

www.foundry.com/products/katana

Vendor Details

Company Name

Kray

Country

Poland

Website

www.kraytracing.com/about/overview/

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