Chaos Group unveils V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana
New versions for The Foundry's core tools increase the renderer's penetration into the VFX market.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Katana
Eye candy: The Foundry's 2014 showreel
Watch a kaleidoscopic three-minute burst of CG created using Foundry tools, from Gravity to Smaug.
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
Pixar announces RenderMan for Katana
New free plugin gives users access to RenderMan Pro Server features within the lighting and look dev tool.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Video: Pixar's new GPU-based lighting workflow
Cool tech video shows OptiX-based system preview sets from Monsters University in near-real time.
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
The best new software from Siggraph 2013
Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
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
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