{"id":850,"date":"2013-01-28T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2013-01-29T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T06:51:16","slug":"laika-embraces-katana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"LAIKA Capitalizes On KATANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the heels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=297\" target=\"_blank\">VFX\/PDX demo<\/a> last year, local studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laika.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LAIKA<\/a> has picked up a site license of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoundry.co.uk\/products\/katana\/\" target=\"_blank\">KATANA<\/a> for use on it&#8217;s upcoming features, presumably to take advantage of it&#8217;s superior look-dev workflow and scalable architecture that&#8217;s better at handling large scale environments.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always good when you can create a scene that actually renders, I think it&#8217;s safe to say!<\/p>\n<p>LAIKA joins studios such as Sony (obviously &#8211; the birthplace of KATANA), ILM, MPC, Spin, Reliance Media (who recently acquired Digital Domain), etc as KATANA early adopters.<\/p>\n<p>Read the press release with all of the usual quotables and juicy bits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoundry.co.uk\/articles\/2012\/05\/22\/359\/laika-embraces-katana\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the heels of the VFX\/PDX demo last year, local studio LAIKA has picked up a site license of KATANA for use on it&#8217;s upcoming features, presumably to take advantage of it&#8217;s superior look-dev workflow and scalable architecture that&#8217;s better at handling large scale environments. It&#8217;s always good when you can create a scene&hellip; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/?p=850\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,8],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-katana","tag-pixel-nerd-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Cfrz-dI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vfxpdx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}