Case Study: Animagrad achieves faster, more flexible animation production with Foundry Katana

Animagrad reduces man hours by up to 80% with Foundry

Animagrad, a Ukraine-based animation studio, faced a critical challenge with their pipeline while producing their first feature film, "The Stolen Princess." Their existing lighting and look development tool was unstable, constantly crashing under the complexity of their scenes and threatening to delay the project by a year. This forced them to consider the extraordinary risk of swapping their core toolset mid-project.

The studio implemented Foundry's Katana as their new lighting and look development solution. Foundry's Katana proved to be a "Godsend," providing the stability and speed the project desperately needed. The tool reduced man-hours by up to 80% and, more importantly, removed all previous technical limitations. This allowed Animagrad's artists limitless creative freedom, enabling them to handle vastly more complex and beautiful scenes for their next project, "Mavka," without having to reject ideas for technical reasons.

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