How to Accelerate Katana Rendering in Render Farm?

Introduction

Katana is Foundry's powerful look development and lighting tool, initially designed to resolve scalability and flexibility problems, and how to carry out look development and lighting in a way that can handle a potentially infinite amount of scene data. As a professional 3D rendering tool, Katana allows artists to customize and control the look and lighting while maintaining performance, even when working with large data sets. Using a rules-based approach, it does not operate destructively, thus allowing modeling, look development, animation, and lighting teams to work in parallel.

When you have an urgent project or your computer can't take on the rendering job, choosing a render farm to help you is the best solution. So we will show you how to use Katana render farms in the following part, online rendering and rendering on desktop, using Fox Renderfarm as an example.

How to Accelerate Katana Rendering in Online Render Farm?

Fox Renderfarm allows you to render 3D software online, and Katana is no exception.

Step 1. Before starting Katana rendering, some preparation work is needed.

1.1 Register to get an account. In the case of web login, please visit web login for details.

1.2 In the case of web transfer, please visit web upload for details.

1.3 Compare the local and cloud asset directories.

Step 2. Katana web submission process (4 steps: submit > analyze > render > download):

2.1 Click the “Submit” button on the left, select the software for submission > set a project path (Note: select a project path to map the local Katana project path) > select the document for rendering, after that, click "Continue".

2.2 Select the software version and hardware configuration corresponding to the file (Note: selection of the rendering system), click "Go Analysis", and wait patiently for the analysis to complete.

2.3 Click the job with "Analysis Done", set render parameters, and then submit it for rendering (Note: the rendering actually starts only at this job).

2.4 On the rendering page, click the job > output file > download.

How to Render Katana in Render Farm Desktop Client?

If you don't want to speed up Katana rendering online with your browser, you can also download the render farm desktop client, available for Linux and Windows.

Step 1. Start the desktop client, select the platform to log in, and enter the main interface.

Step 2. Click “Setting” at the top-right corner > set a project path (such as C:/Users/enfuzion/Desktop) > click “Next”.

Step 3. Drag the Katana file to the job area in the client, thus triggering the submission and starting the scene analysis.

Step 4. Select the software version and hardware configuration corresponding to the file, and click "Next" to enter the analysis page.

Step 5. Click "Next" when the analysis is done (Note: corresponding prompt will appear in case of any error in the analysis results or warning thereof), and click “Ignore and continue” to set render parameters.

Step 6. Click “Submit” to start the uploading. The rendering is automatically created upon the completion of submission.

Step 7. Double-click to run the task, and you can view the task details (including preview, log, deduction, etc.), and the rendering results are automatically downloaded to the local disk.

Also read: What is Fox renderfarm and how it works - advantages, features, account setup (Tutorial)

That is all about how to use the render farm for Katana rendering, if you have anything else you don't understand, you can consult customer service or your account manager, but remember to sign up to get an account, and the benefit for new users is a $25 free rendering voucher. If you are a student or educator, you can get a bigger discount, by checking out our GoCloud Program. Fox Renderfarm is always committed to providing better and more affordable cloud rendering services for everyone in the CG industry!

Best online cloud rendering renderfarm 

Fox Renderfarm is the industry's leading provider of cloud rendering services and an excellent render farm. In operation since 2011, Fox Renderfarm has earned a reputation for quality performance, great customer service, and flexible pricing plans. With over 20 years of experience, Pioneer's core team serves over 200,000 users and top leading visual effects companies and animation studios from over 50 countries or regions, with clients including multiple awards and Oscar winners. 

It supports both CPU and GPU cloud rendering. Fox Renderfarm supports much 3D software such as C4D, Maya, Arnold, Blender, Redshift, and more. Fox Renderfarm now offers a free $25 trial for new registrants.

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