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LifestyleKATANA | Mastering LookDev & Lighting for the VFX industry (Udemy.com)
Advanced Insights to Workflows and Techniques using Arnold
Created by: Arvid Schneider
Last updated April 2019
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.
How it compares
Against the other 43 rated Udemy courses in Houdini on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 58% of them
- Reviews276#10 of 44 by number of reviews
- Length10.4 hourslonger than 69% of them
- Last updatedApril 2019earlier than 69% of them
Course Description
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 Katana for Windows and 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 real production 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 templates within Katana
- Advanced LookDev and Lighting practices
- Opscripts, Graph State Variables, Reference Expressions, Macros, Live Groups, Variable Switches
Brief Overview
- Introduction to Katana - installation, navigation, UI
- Principles of Look Development and Lighting
- Creating advanced and versatile Look and Lighting templates
- Look development of production assets
- Shot lighting of production assets
- Rendering shots
- Compositing
- 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
- Not teaching a specific renderer (Course is applicable to other renderers).
- Not about modelling, texturing or animation.
- Will not teach about Python or Lua or other programming languages.
- 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
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Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
276 Reviews
Arvid Schneider
Arvid loves being creative and technical at the same time, that is why he has been working in the industry as a technical director for leading VFX companies like ILM, MPC, Cinesite. In his 10+ years experience Arvid has worked on several big shows like Transformers, Ready Player One, Jurrassic World, James Bond - Spectre, to name the most recent.
Arvid is specialized in the look development and lighting field, where all the pipeline departments come together to create the final rendered image. Technical and artistic expertise is needed to compete in the high end industry of VFX.
For this reason Arvid is very keen to share and help other artists, new comers or even advanced artists in the look development and lighting field.
Arvid is also developing pipeline optimizations tools to improve efficiency of artists and production. Most of the code is written in python, a little part is C++.
Apart from developing third party tools for rendering packages, he also develops applications for iOS and macOS using Swift.
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Reviews
clear and concise, what you need to know about katana to start with is packed in it.
Thanks
Really great in depth course! Avid covers very interesting and advanced topics which I have been look for a while! Thanks
is very complete course and helpful, some of the information is hard to find in the web
Amazing instructor, I'm so happy to take this course, I've already had other Katana Classes, but This course is fantastic and complete, I might see that Instructor has great knowledge about Katana and pass it for the easy way.
So far the best to date Katana online course. The tutor is very highly skilled and gives clear explanations even on most advanced topics.
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- Provider: Udemy
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