Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Welcome to the third tutorial in the "Intro to USD Workflow" series! In this tutorial, Yingying delves into animation in USD. You'll learn how to reference and edit animations, as well as set up a camera for a shot. Plus, you'll get an exciting preview of Wonder Studio, an AI animation tool by Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company. This innovative method of automatically animating CG characters, combined with USD, highlights a transformative workflow for the animation pipeline.

Learn more about Wonder Studio:
https://autode.sk/wonder_dynamics
youtube.com/watch?v=xad1ajxln28
https://autode.sk/WA-blog

Try Wonder Studio:
https://autode.sk/wonderstudio

This tutorial series includes five tutorials covering USD composition, assembly, animation, lighting and sequence.

Links to other tutorial in this series:
Intro to USD Workflow - Ep.1: Overview of USD Structure
youtu.be/PzfgbzrX8bs

Intro to USD Workflow – Ep.2 Assembly
youtu.be/kq8O68q10nM

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

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

Learn how to fix floor contact for your animated characters
youtu.be/a1YW_EleInQ

Documentation for layer locking (including system-lock):
github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd/blob/dev/doc/LayerLocking.md

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