Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Continuing the deep dive from last week, Jason explores some advanced aspects of animation and other topics around 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 - Animated USD
01:10 - Define reference from file
01:45 - Viewing the reference
03:00 - Layer offset
03:45 - Prototypes
04:35 - Set up the scatter
05:00 - Prototype ID array
06:30 - Scatter complete
07:00 - Play with the settings
07:45 - Bind materials

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_9_files.zip