Last time we met, promises were made.  Now it’s time to deliver!

Mariana Acuña from The Foundry joins us to pick up where we left off.  She’ll be giving us an intro to Katana, the new Lighting and Look Dev tool that was formerly the in-house Lighting and Compositing app at Sony Imageworks.  It’s a different approach to rendering that allows for scenes to be managed and scalable into massive constructions like never before.  Other than Sony, ILM is all over it, and even locally,  Laika Entertainment has adopted it for use on their next feature.  Get prepped, because Mariana will give us the live demo & overview and we’ll leave plenty of time for questions.  We’ll also touch on Mari, which is now at version 1.5 and continues to push the boundaries of 3d paint and texturing since it was released from inside the incubator at Weta Digital out into the wild by the Foundry.  Finally, last but most definitely not least we’ll be going over Nuke’s use of OpenEXR 2.0 and the deep compositing and rendering pipeline.  The days of rerendering for holdouts and pulling your hair out trying to correctly layer CG are finally over.

Also joining us will be the talented and hardworking filmmakers from Hinge Digital, who’ve had a busy summer and just wrapped on a character design/rebranding commercial campaign for Carrington College.  They hit a home run on this one and have a lot to show – you won’t want to miss this!

Thursday,  September 20th – 6pm-9pm @ the Art Institute Open Space.  Enter on NW Davis St between 11th and 12th.  Take the main entrance elevator to the 2nd floor – the open space is a right and then another right.

Be there or be [ ].