--- title: Katana Reviews meta\_title: 'Katana Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Katana works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 6 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-07-17' parent\_category: name: 3D Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/3d-design --- # Katana Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Katana but has limited features. Are you part of the Katana team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Katana® is a highly efficient, collaborative look development and lighting solution that gives you the creative scope and scalability to meet the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects. Equally suited to both short and long-form animation and VFX projects, Katana's unique design lets you work with massive scenes and high volumes of shots; easily reuse looks; and make revisions without repeating scene setup work, so you can spend more time achieving higher quality results. * * * Seller [Foundry](https://www.g2.com/sellers/foundry) Discussions [Katana Community](https://www.g2.com/products/katana/discuss) Overview by Jen Goldfinch Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![D5 Render](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "D5 Render") D5 Render 4.8/5(1,064) ](https://www.g2.com/products/d5-render/reviews) [ ![Enscape 3D](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Enscape 3D") Enscape 3D 4.6/5(416) ](https://www.g2.com/products/enscape-3d/reviews) [ ![Meshy](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Meshy") Meshy 4.7/5(3,287) ](https://www.g2.com/products/meshy/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/katana/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 6 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Textiles](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Textiles") UT Verified User in Textiles Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/23/2025 "Effortless Navigation and Simple Design Make It a Winner" 4/5 What do you like best about Katana? The graphical user interface is straightforward and easy to navigate, which means users require very little training time to get started. Onboarding process was very efficient and effective. Our consultant Brandon Chalifour was very helpful and could always point us in the right direction. He was outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Katana? It’s not possible to create custom reports, as the only option available is to download selected data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Katana solving and how is that benefiting you? The software allows me to track the materials used in each production batch, which is very helpful. I also appreciate how it connects purchase orders to both inventory values and production runs, making it easier to manage and monitor everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film") UM Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2024 "Best software for look development and lighting in vfx." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Katana? This is the best software for look development of any shot. It Like the compatibility with OCIO color scheme. It allows customisation also. It support python and other languages. It supports all render plugins like Arnold, vray etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Katana? As of now I didn't found any drawback with the foundry products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Katana solving and how is that benefiting you? It's integration with nuke. By which a compositor get more accuracy towards completing the shots and second thing , because most of the studio use nuke as a composit software so katana is first preference for lookdev because both are the foundry products and compatible . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/16/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ana P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ana P.") AP Ana P. Especialista en marketing digital Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/2/2023 "Good tool and happy with it" 5/5 What do you like best about Katana? It connects to Shopify and updates automatically. Incredible customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Katana? Price is a bit expensive since there are other applications that do the same and are cheaper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Katana solving and how is that benefiting you? Perform my tasks by optimizing my time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated ![Balaji K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Balaji K.") BK Balaji K. 2d lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/1/2022 "The best software for lighting" 4/5 What do you like best about Katana? It's very good can see Rela time lighting changes. And it's good collbration with nuke. In vfx we need to change and see the lighting lot of time will consume. Katana reduce the time , very good software from Foundry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Katana? Not much, if they added multiple options for rendering will be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Katana solving and how is that benefiting you? Cg lighting and real time . It's awesome , due to katanga and nuke collaboration it's reducing the time and can see real time results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![arbaz m.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "arbaz m.") AM arbaz m. FX TD Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/8/2022 "Katana Overview" 4/5 What do you like best about Katana? Katana is the best for pipeline render and it's really simple to work in it because of its simple user interface. Quality of katana render was amazing and used for movies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Katana? There is some limitation for rendering stuff in pipeline but if we manage that then there is nothing about dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Katana solving and how is that benefiting you? Works on multiple shows and renders every heavy shot and katana does it very smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arunkumar B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arunkumar B.") AB Arunkumar B. Lighting Lead Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/1/2021 "Katana - Best for Lighting & Lookdev" 4/5 What do you like best about Katana? The best part of the Katana is the Scalability it provides for the productions. The node-based workflow is one of the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Katana? Some limitations with regards to getting things to works when something breaks in the pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Katana: If you are ever looking for software that handles the heavy scene data and works on lighting or look development with the best scalability options, then KATANA would be the answer you are searching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Katana solving and how is that benefiting you? Working on multiple shots with a single receipe and effective management of heavy scenes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/1/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Katana? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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