Fundamentals of Arnold for Katana

Pluralsight

Course Summary

This course builds on the Katana Essentials course. You'll learn about setting up a lighting and look development pipeline, advanced Katana work flows, as well as lighting and rendering scenes with Arnold. Software required: Katana 2.1.

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Course Description

Have you ever wanted to know more about rendering and lighting with Arnold inside Katana? If so, Fundamentals of Arnold for Katana, is the perfect course for you because you will learn how professional visual effects studios use Arnold inside of Katana. First, you will learn how to setup a basic look development pipeline with Katana. Next, you will learn how to efficiently create and bake out lookfiles for your assets. Finally, you will learn how to load assets that have been through the Arnold pipeline. Next, you'll light a simple scene using Arnold and it's light types. Finally, you'll edit materials and learn how to create efficient renders. When you're finished with this course, you'll not only have setup templates, have created look development, and lit a simple scene, but you'll also have learned how the professional studios use Katana and Arnold in their lighting pipeline. Software required: Katana 2.1.

Course Description

Have you ever wanted to know more about rendering and lighting with Arnold inside Katana? If so, Fundamentals of Arnold for Katana, is the perfect course for you because you will learn how professional visual effects studios use Arnold inside of Katana. First, you will learn how to setup a basic look development pipeline with Katana. Next, you will learn how to efficiently create and bake out lookfiles for your assets. Finally, you will learn how to load assets that have been through the Arnold pipeline. Next, you'll light a simple scene using Arnold and it's light types. Finally, you'll edit materials and learn how to create efficient renders. When you're finished with this course, you'll not only have setup templates, have created look development, and lit a simple scene, but you'll also have learned how the professional studios use Katana and Arnold in their lighting pipeline. Software required: Katana 2.1.

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Course Syllabus

Course Overview
- 1m 29s

—Course Overview 1m 29s

Understanding a Katana Pipeline
- 13m 59s

—The Katana Pipeline and Summary of Lookfiles 4m 4s
—Creating a Master Root Lookfile and Basic Render Settings 4m 34s
—Baking and Testing Your Master Root Lookfile 5m 20s

Creating a Katana Template
- 52m 33s

—Why the Template Model? 0m 54s
—Creating a Look Development Template 23m 39s
—Creating and Utilizing Parameter Expressions 10m 24s
—Creating a Macro 10m 14s
—Creating and Using Live Groups for a Lighting Rig 4m 48s
—Creating a Shelf Item to Use a Created Template 2m 32s

Look Development: Preparing Assets for Lighting
- 50m 52s

—Creating a Flexible Look Development Scene 2m 31s
—Using Custom CEL to Define Collections and Assigning Materials 12m 7s
—The Material Stack and Material Inheritance 3m 27s
—Creating and Using a Master Material Lookfile 5m 6s
—Setting up Cameras, Lighting Rigs, and Turntables 24m 22s
—Arnold Material Overview and Baking a Lookfile 3m 17s

Lighting with Arnold
- 49m 24s

—Lighting Template Overview and Loading Assets 11m 9s
—Creating and Editing a Skydome 3m 18s
—Creating Distant Lights and Rigs 6m 47s
—Arnold Quad Lights 3m 44s
—Arnold Spot Lights 6m 9s
—Arnold Point Lights 4m 19s
—Loading Lookfiles and Editing Incoming Materials 9m 17s
—Interactive Render Filters 4m 37s

Setting up Arnold Render Passes in Katana
- 20m 49s

—Setting up Render Passes 10m 21s
—Anti-alias Samples in Arnold 4m 55s
—Debugging with Arnold Global Settings 3m 49s
—Undo History 1m 42s