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Foundry Katana

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Foundry Katana is a look development and lighting powerhouse, tackling creative challenges with ferocity and ease.



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Product Description Foundry Katana

Katana — Powerful look development and 3D lighting software
Take control of your next project.

What is Katana?

Fast and formidable, Katana is a look development and lighting powerhouse, tackling creative challenges with ferocity and ease. It arms artists with the creative freedom and scalability to exceed the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.

Features

Studios

Power up your pipeline
Flexible USD-optimised tech, combined with numerous APIs, and multiple commercial renderers, make Katana the Swiss Army knife of your pipeline.

Pioneering rendering
Katana’s Foresight Rendering workflows, comprised of Multiple Simultaneous Renders and Networked Interactive Rendering, provide artists with scalable feedback for faster iterations.

Artists

Artist-focused lighting
Light at the speed of thought thanks to cutting-edge Lighting Tools, empowering artists to light whole sequences of shots with Katana’s industry-leading, multi-shot workflows.

Collaborative look development
Katana is made to drive the look development of hero or high-volume assets while seamlessly collaborating with shot production.

Katana 8.0 — What's new

Katana 8.0 now comes with complete roundtripping — to and from USD — within the application. Combined with Katana’s production-proven framework, this roundtrip provides a fully supported fallback mechanism that enables you to migrate your teams to USD — in your own time and without risk!

What’s more, Katana 8.0’s USD exporting capabilities give you even more power, so that you can bring entire USD layers and stages back up the pipeline to share with other departments.

Benefits

Studios

Improve your ROI
  • Work in parallel across multiple stages of production
  • Speed up production processes
  • Achieve more within a day’s work
  • Get the most out of your resources
World-class technology
  • Use Katana, Nuke, and Mari together for unmatched power
  • Unlock pioneering production rendering workflows
  • Enjoy seamless integration with multiple renderers, APIs, and USD

Artists

Hassle-free creativity
  • Implement art direction with precision
  • Make the right choices faster
  • Avoid layers of technical complexity
  • Solve problems faster and tackle the next challenge sooner
Perfect for teams
  • Share work seamlessly
  • Harmonize across departments
  • Safely integrate updates from downstream departments
  • Make and share tools that solve group problems

  • Interactive artist session license
  • 3Delight interactive rendering included. Other renderers require their own license
  • Access to technical support

  • Unlock Katana’s Foresight Rendering power
  • Allows the use of Katana in batch, shell, and script mode
  • Required for command-line rendering with any renderer plugin

Additional information

License For

1 PC
License Type

Subscription
Operating System

Windows, macOS, Linux
Edition

Katana Interactive, Katana Render
License

Teams, Enterprise

System Requirments

Supported operating systems

Linux 15.0 and onwardsQualified Operating Systems

• Rocky 9.0 (64-bit)

Note: The currently supported version of VFX Reference Platform includes library versions that are only compatible with Rocky 9.0.

Linux 14.1Qualified Operating Systems

CentOS 7.6 to 7.9 (64-bit)

Note: The currently supported version of VFX Reference Platform includes library versions that are only compatible with CentOS 7.6 to 7.9.

MacOSQualified Operating Systems

• macOS Ventura (13.x).

• macOS Sonoma (14.x)

Note: Nuke 15.0 and later includes native support for Apple silicon hardware. Other OS versions may work, but have not been tested or qualified on.

Note: Nuke 14.1 is supported under Rosetta emulation on Apple’s silicon hardware.

WindowsQualified Operating Systems

• Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit)

Other OS versions may work, but have not been tested or qualified on.

Minimum hardware requirements

Processorx86-64 processor, such as Intel Core 2 Duo or later

Storage5.70 GB disk space available for caching and temporary files

RamAt least 8 GB RAM

DisplayAt least 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution and 24-bit color

Video cardGraphics card with at least 512 MB of video memory and driver support for OpenGL 2.0.*

*To enable optional GPU acceleration of Viewer processing, you need OpenGL 2.0 with support for floating point textures and GLSL.

Requirements for GPU Acceleration – Windows and Linux

If you want to enable Nuke to calculate certain nodes using the GPU, there are some additional requirements. See the Release notes for full details of requirements for GPU acceleration.

NVIDIA

An NVIDIA GPU with graphics drivers capable of running CUDA 11.8, or above. These are bundled with the regular drivers for your NVIDIA GPU. Driver versions  522.06 (Windows) and 520.61.05 (Linux), or above are required.

NOTE: We recommend using the latest graphics drivers, where possible.

AMD

The following GPUs with an appropriate driver are supported. See the release notes for details on support available in specific versions of Nuke.

• AMD Radeon PRO W7900

• AMD Radeon PRO W6600

• AMD Radeon PRO W6800

• AMD Radeon Pro W5700

• AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NOTE: Other AMD GPUs may work, but have not been fully tested.

Requirements for GPU Acceleration – MacOS

See the Release notes for full details of requirements for GPU acceleration.

Mac GPUs

Apple silicon integrated GPUs are supported as are AMD GPUs on the following Intel CPU Macs.

  • Any late 2013 Mac Pro onward (including 2019 Mac Pro),
  • Mid-2015 MacBook Pros onward, and
  • Late 2017 iMac Pros onward.

All supported Mac Pros will include a multi-GPU support option, where applicable. When enabled in the preferences, GPU processing is shared between the available GPUs for extra processing speed. Bitwise equality between GPU and CPU holds in most cases, but for some operations, there are limitations to the accuracy possible with this configuration.

WARNING: Although AMD GPUs are enabled on other Mac models, they are not officially supported and used at your own risk.

Add-on GPUs

AMD cards in eGPU set-ups for macOS 10.13.5 and later. The Sonnet eGFX Breakaway box and BlackMagic eGPU have both also been tested with Nuke.

GPU requirements for the Machine Learning Toolset

Training using the CopyCat node requires an NVIDIA GPU, with compute capability 3.5 or above; on MacOS Apple silicon integrated GPUs are also supported.

If an appropriate GPU is not available, Inference and other machine learning plug-ins can run on the CPU with significantly degraded performance.

Tested Workstation hardware

The following system configurations running CentOS 7 and Windows 10 have been tested with Nuke15.0v1 and Nuke 14.1v1.

SystemDell Precision 7820 Workstation

Processor(s)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6234 3.2 GHz, 3.7 GHz Turbo, 8C, 10.4GT/s 3UPI, 24.75M Cache, HT (130W) DDR4-2666

Storage1 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD

RAM96 B (4×16 GB) 2666 MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC

GPUNVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB

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SystemLenovo ThinkStation P620 Workstation

ProcessorAMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 3.5 GHz 32-core

Storage1 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD

RAM64 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RDIMM ECC (4 x 16 GB)

GraphicsNVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 8 GB

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SystemHP Z4 Workstation

ProcessorIntel Xeon W-2295 CPU

Storage1 TB PCIE NVME SSD

RAM64 GB RAM

GPUNVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB

SystemLenovo P7 Workstation

ProcessorIntel Xeon W9-3495x 1.9 GHz, 4.4 GHz Turbo, 56C, 105M Cache, HT (350W) DDR5-4800

Storage1 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD

RAM96 GB (4×16 GB) 4800 MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC

GraphicsNVIDIA Quadro RTX A4500 8 GB

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The following system configuration running macOS Monterey (12.6) and macOS Ventura (13.6) has been tested with Nuke15.0v1 and Nuke 14.1v1.

SystemApple MacBook Pro

ProcessorApple M1 Pro

Storage1 TB SSD Storage

RAM16 GB

GraphicsApple M1 Pro

Nuke Studio tested hardware

Nuke Studio is currently being tested and we will be providing system specifications soon. If you have any questions about compatible hardware in the meantime, please contact Support.

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