cgCoach Blog

ShaderMon, the new MAYA tool from Brillstudio, will give Maya shader artists the ability to save their shaders in a project based personal library,catalog them,backup the shaders to a Main library and load them anytime to any project while giving them a fully customizable  preview of the shaders.

A few of the features included in Version 1.0 :

* Breaking down objects and extracting  individual shaders
* Extracting multiple shaders at one go.
* Rendering thumbnails from most render engines (maya software, mentalRay,Vray etc.. )
* Grouping and cataloging shaders.
* Moving and and importing shaders across projects.
* Main Library and Project Based Library.
* Create custom setups for displaying of shaders.
* supports Names Spacing.
* supports Render layers.
* Supports IBL (mentalRay)
* Extracts textures to unique folders based on shader’s name.
* Rename shaders before saving to library.
* share your shaders (directly from maya) online with the world.
* Automatic  packing  and posting of shaders with textures.

Jeremy Selan, Sony Pictures Imageworks, gives an overview of KATANA and history of KATANA at Sony Pictures Imageworks from how they've been using it and films it gets used on to it's flexibility and how it can be used on different productions. Filmed by fxguide at NAB 2011.