Bringing Avatar: The Way of Water to life
Discover how Wētā FX used Foundry’s Katana, Mari, and Nuke to create the Oscar-winning visual effects in Avatar: The Way of Water.
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What’s on the horizon for machine learning?
As technology advances and schedules get tighter, creative work meets fresh challenges. Discover how artists and studios are leveraging new tools to fuel their creativity.
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Modo 17.0 – now available
Experience new levels of performance and unlock your creative potential with the new Modo 17.0. With an overhauled architecture and powerful tool performance enhancements, Modo just got even better.
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Flix 7.0 – now available
Bring your team and your stories together, with centralized story assets, powerful pipeline customization, and streamlined cross-team collaboration. Experience a smoother and more secure pipeline today.
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Introducing Katana 7.0
Start your USD journey with Katana 7.0 and experience the best of both worlds. Get hands on with USD native workflows while benefiting from Katana’s powerhouse Lookdev and Lighting tools. Performance updates include speedier interactive updates that are up to twice as fast with multi-threaded Live Rendering.
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The complete artist’s palette
Mari 7.0 ships with the new, powerful Bakery, so you can spend more time creating new worlds — without ever having to leave Mari. The new release also brings further workflow improvements for artists, along with USD updates to support Mari in your pipeline.
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Jason Gagnon — Lookdev Supervisor, MPC
Katana makes life easier for artists. It is great for creating custom tools, macros and standard templates to ease production.
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Sam Lucas — Head of Modeling, Milk
Mari is an essential part of our pipeline, enabling us to paint multiple objects over numerous UV sets. It is constantly being updated with new powerful tools, and with an increasing demand for higher resolution textures, it has become invaluable.
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Solene Chan-Lam — Lead Texture Artist, MPC
I've never worked with a software company as available for customer feedback and support. I cannot imagine working without my Foundry software.
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