Foundry and Pixar announce 'strategic collaboration'
Immediate result: copies of Katana now come with a free licence of RenderMan Pro Server.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Katana
Foundry to develop Sony Pictures Imageworks' Flix
Hybrid web-based storyboarding, previz and layout tool manages shots all the way from 2D boards to final animation.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Katana and mocha creators win technical Oscars
Other Sci-Tech Academy Awards go to Weta, DreamWorks and the tech behind Blender's smoke system.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
'We have the opportunity here to change everything'
The heads of the newly merged Foundry and Luxology on a match made in heaven - and Starbucks.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
The Foundry and Luxology merge
Both firms retain own names and identities: work on modo, Nuke and other tools continues as normal.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
The Foundry releases Katana 1.0
Former Imageworks in-house technology ships as commercial look dev tool: ILM among first users.
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
The Foundry releases public update on Katana
Digital Domain and MPC using it in alpha, but few other details on the new look-dev tool yet.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011