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Katana Fastrack episode 01 by Xuan Prada

Here it is, the very first episode of my series "Katana Fastrack", available to all my exclusive patrons.
This is an introductory video where I'm going to give you an overview of what this course is all about. I hope you like it, it is going to be a lof of fun!

You will learn:

- Where Katana fits in the pipeline
- The most important concepts of Katana's workflow
- How to prepare assets for Katana
- The importance of look-dev recipes
- How to create a very basic recipe

Check it out on my Patreon feed.

Patreon: Houdini as scene assembler: Bundles, takes and rops by Xuan Prada

In this video I talk about the usage of Houdini as scene assembler. This topic will be recurrent in future posts, as Houdini is becoming a very popular tool for look-dev, lighting, rendering and layout, among others.

In this case I go trhough bundles, takes and rops and how we use them while lighting shots in visual effects projects.

You will learn:

- Bundles, takes, rops
- Alembic import
- Different ways of assign materials
- Create look-dev collections
- Generate .ass files
- Create render layers
- Create quick slap comps
- Override materials

Check it out here.