Creative Solutions Consulting Customer Education Workshops & Training AI Enablement

Helping people learn creative technology.

I have seven years of experience in creative software for VFX and post production, and more recently, agentic AI, currently leading presales demos, training, customer onboarding, and learning content production for the Look Development and Lighting tool, Katana.
I also demo and contribute to the enablement content for the compositing tool, Nuke and AI orchestration platform, Griptape.

Katana scene showing a finished animated character shot alongside the armchair look development setup and node graphAssets provided by Miralumo Films

Rebuilding how studios learn Katana

Studio Training

Designed structured training for studios adopting Katana, from first demo through evaluation, and artist onboarding.

Agentic AI VFX asset generation

Agentic AI · Prototyping

A prototype that combines AI agents with image and video generation models to create VFX assets, complete with alpha channels, ready for compositing.

Layered panels of a Katana USD scene, showing the viewer, scene graph and node graph stacked in depth

Helping studios transition to USD

Consulting · USD

Enablement content for USD workflows in Katana, supporting studios as they transition their pipelines.

Griptape Nodes workflow using Google Nano Banana to restyle a road photo for different weather and times of day, shown in an image grid

Teaching agentic AI workflows

Tutorials

Griptape tutorials covering installation and first use through to orchestrating agents, and experimental workflows.

Ruth presenting on camera between the Katana and RenderMan logos

Growing trial downloads through the RenderMan Challenge

Campaign

A campaign to make Katana more accessible by partnering with the RenderMan Art Challenge and offering a 90-day Katana licence, tutorials, and launcher scripts, driving a 60% increase in trial downloads.

Katana with a USD lighting setup on a desert vehicle shot, surrounded by blurred frames from other release videos

Release content for new features

Product content

Feature content for every Katana release, used in client demos, online learning, and marketing.

Ruth Hutton, Senior Creative Specialist, presenting a Foundry webinar

Webinars

Live · presenting

Live webinars for audiences from students to studio leadership, covering new features and workflows, with live Q&A.