Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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USD has been touched on several times in this series. Now it's time for a deep dive into USD in Bifrost for Autodesk Maya. Part of a 10-lesson workshop for aspiring technical artists. Expand this description for download links and more.

00:00 - Intro
00:07 - USD in Bifrost tutorials
00:40 - What is USD?
01:40 - Illustrated description
03:30 - USD Layer Editor
04:35 - Import USD resources/namespaces
06:00 - The world's simplest USD setup
06:10 - Define USD mesh
07:30 - Define USD prim
08:20 - Xform
09:20 - Bifrost context menu
10:15 - Create a stage
13:05 - Maya USD outliner explanation
14:15 - USD Layer Editor
16:15 - Adding the eyes
19:05 - USD transforms
20:00 - In the script editor
21:45 - Save USD stage (output)
24:30 - Unreal Engine import
24:50 - Unreal USD plugin
26:00 - Changes and reloading
27:35 - Imported baked USD collision mesh

Download the scenes, compounds, slides, lesson plans and other files to follow along or adapt for your own curriculum: areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/bifrost_bootcamp_lesson_8_files.zip

USD in Bifrost tutorials: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8hZ6hQCGHMVPTLY8J-yeBE3TD0dEd8Z4