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KATANA | Mastering LookDev & Lighting for the VFX industry

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KATANA | Mastering LookDev & Lighting for the VFX industry, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 4.8, with 45 lectures, based on 262 reviews, and has 3294 subscribers.

You will learn about Be able to fully control and understand Katana to help you get started in the industry Gain important software requirement skills in Katana for job applications Hands-on information and workflows from experienced artist Creating tools to help you become more efficient as an artist in the industry Develop Macros, OpScripts and other helper tools Becoming a versatile artist and land a job in the industry Fulfill the additional application requirement to be proficient in katana. This course is ideal for individuals who are Students who want to work professionally in the VFX industry and need a good understanding of the software Katana or Beginner level artists curious to learn VFX standards or Artists who want to add another set of tools to their toolbag It is particularly useful for Students who want to work professionally in the VFX industry and need a good understanding of the software Katana or Beginner level artists curious to learn VFX standards or Artists who want to add another set of tools to their toolbag.

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Summary

Title: KATANA | Mastering LookDev & Lighting for the VFX industry

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 4.8

Number of Lectures: 45

Number of Published Lectures: 45

Number of Curriculum Items: 46

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 46

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

  • Be able to fully control and understand Katana to help you get started in the industry
  • Gain important software requirement skills in Katana for job applications
  • Hands-on information and workflows from experienced artist
  • Creating tools to help you become more efficient as an artist in the industry
  • Develop Macros, OpScripts and other helper tools
  • Becoming a versatile artist and land a job in the industry
  • Fulfill the additional application requirement to be proficient in katana.

Who Should Attend

  • Students who want to work professionally in the VFX industry and need a good understanding of the software Katana
  • Beginner level artists curious to learn VFX standards
  • Artists who want to add another set of tools to their toolbag

Target Audiences

  • Students who want to work professionally in the VFX industry and need a good understanding of the software Katana
  • Beginner level artists curious to learn VFX standards
  • Artists who want to add another set of tools to their toolbag

Arvid Schneider is an established artist, who has been working in the professional VFX industry for more than 10 years. He has worked on big blockbusters like Captain Marvel, Aquaman, Ready Player One, Jurassic World, Transformers and many more.

With his knowledge and expertise, Arvid has prepared a detailed course to get to know and understand the industry standard lighting and look development software Katana. This course will help you to jump-start your career by becoming an advanced lighting and shading TD in today’s competitive industry.

Disclaimer

  • This course is tagged for all levels – but it gets Intermediate and Advanced fairly quickly!

  • This is a technical and artistic course which means that it will contain quite a lot of theory, bit also artistic hands-on lectures.

  • This course is using Katanafor Windowsand Arnold as the main software tools. (But all topics can be achieved on Linux or Mac workstations, the same applies for other renderers).

Mastering Katana

  • Gain realproduction insights

  • Fully understand how to work within Katana and to understand important workflows

  • Create your own powerful macros and templates to organize your work

  • Technical course on how to create advanced templateswithin Katana

  • Advanced LookDevand Lighting practices

  • Opscripts, Graph State Variables, Reference Expressions, Macros, Live Groups, Variable Switches

Brief Overview

  1. Introduction to Katana – installation, navigation, UI

  2. Principles of Look Development and Lighting

  3. Creating advanced and versatile Look and Lighting templates

  4. Look development of production assets

  5. Shot lighting of production assets

  6. Rendering shots

  7. Compositing

Accomplishments

  • You will be able to fully work with Katana at a high level.

  • Directly jump into a VFX company with advanced knowledge in templates and workflows.

  • Create and customize custom workflows.

  • Develop tools and macros.

What this course is NOT

  • Notteaching a specific renderer (Course is applicable to other renderers).

  • Notabout modelling, texturing or animation.

  • Will notteach about Python or Lua or other programming languages.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Preparation and Installation

Lecture 3: Installing Arnold for Katana

Lecture 4: Environment Variables

Lecture 5: Adding Additional Resources

Chapter 2: Katana | Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Configuration and Layout

Lecture 3: Navigating and Viewing

Lecture 4: Dataflow

Lecture 5: Structuring the Template

Lecture 6: Lookdev and Lighting Principles

Lecture 7: Preparation of Upstream Departments

Chapter 3: Arnold Overview

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Cross DCC plugins – MtoA, KtoA, HtoA, C4DtoA, MAXtoA

Lecture 3: Fundamentals of Arnold Course

Chapter 4: Look Development

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Arnold Shading Node Shortcut Extension

Lecture 3: Basic Look Development Workflows

Lecture 4: Child Materials and Automatic Assignments

Lecture 5: Basic Principles and KLF Baking

Lecture 6: Turntable Template Setup

Lecture 7: Lighting Template for Lookdev

Chapter 5: Lighting

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to Gaffer

Lecture 3: Introduction to Monitor and Catalog

Lecture 4: Arbitrary Output Variables – AOVs

Lecture 5: Render Outputs

Chapter 6: Katana | Advanced

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Adding Resolutions

Lecture 3: Interactive Render Filter IRF

Lecture 4: Expressions

Lecture 5: Variable Switches

Lecture 6: Graph State Variables

Lecture 7: Live Groups

Lecture 8: Macros

Lecture 9: Opscripts

Chapter 7: Katana | Becoming the Master

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Lookdev Template

Lecture 3: Asset Lookdev

Lecture 4: Lighting Template

Lecture 5: Shot Lighting

Lecture 6: More Shot Lighting

Lecture 7: Render Passes

Lecture 8: Comping those shots

Chapter 8: Additional Lectures

Lecture 1: Introduction

Instructors

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  • 1 stars: 4 votes
  • 2 stars: 2 votes
  • 3 stars: 8 votes
  • 4 stars: 64 votes
  • 5 stars: 184 votes

Frequently Asked Questions


How long do I have access to the course materials?


You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.


Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?


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