Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome to the fifth and final tutorial in the "Intro to USD Workflow" series! In this tutorial, Yingying delves into USD sequences. You'll learn about the layer structures of sequences and shots, how to construct a sequence in USD, and how to create shot-specific overrides.

The characters used in this tutorial were created using Autodesk Flow Studio (Formerly 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.

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

Install USD for Maya 0.32:
github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd/releases/tag/v0.32.0

Link to the first tutorial in the series:
youtu.be/PzfgbzrX8bs
Link to the second tutorial in the series:
youtu.be/kq8O68q10nM
Link to the third tutorial in the series:
youtu.be/OWLlAdQ3Uyc
Link to the fourth tutorial in the series:
youtu.be/myl54b4HaNs

Learn USD terminology and composition:
help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2026/ENU/?guid=GUID-22CE6DA5-6FE3-46B7-B38A-FE5FD13304E9

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

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