Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In this first tutorial of the Intro to USD Workflow series, Yingying provides an overview of the USD prim hierarchy and variant sets. You'll learn a typical USD structure and the variant switching feature of Maya USD. This tutorial series includes five tutorials covering USD composition, assembly, caching animation, lighting and sequence.

Links to other videos in this series:
Intro to USD Workflow - Ep.2 Assembly:
youtu.be/kq8O68q10nM

Intro to USD Workflow - Ep.3 Animation:
youtube.com/watch?v=OWLlAdQ3Uyc

Intro to USD Workflow - Ep.4 Lighting:
youtu.be/myl54b4HaNs

Intro to USD Workflow – Ep.5 Sequence :
youtu.be/oZ4VjueynTY

The original models of all the assets used in this tutorial were created by KITBASH3D:
kitbash3d.com

Get familiar with USD terminology and composition through Maya Online Help:
help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-70EB23EE-4006-4927-9D2B-840BEED6177A