Practical Lighting with Katana and Arnold: Project Set Up and Importing USD @FoundryTeam
Practical Lighting with Katana and Arnold: Project Set Up and Importing USD  @FoundryTeam
Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Graham covers the USD asset and folder structure, before giving an overview of the Katana template and showing you how to bring in your USD assets in and set up Graph State Variables for multi-shot workflows.
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