USD - Universal Scene Description : What it is & Why should we care

Universal Scene Description can be a powerful tool to use not only for big movies or animation but for smaller projects as well. Introducing here why we should even need to care about USD before moving further to a series of tutorial revolving around Environment creation in Houdini's Solaris You can now find my course on Houdini's solaris on my gumroad : https://adrienlambert.gumroad.com/l/ztwuaj Mentioned documentation : USD SOURCE CODE : https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD PIXAR GLOSSARY : https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/release/glossary.html SIDEFX GLOSSARY : https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/solaris/glossary.html ------------------------------------ Social Medias : gumroad.com/adrienlambert adrienlambert.artstation.com facebook.com/adrienlambertvfx/ vimeo.com/adrienlambert instagram.com/adrienlambertvfx/ [email protected] ------------------------------------ VIDEO SOURCE : INGENUITY COWBOY BEBOP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZeWKf89LE Frozen2 HoudiniFX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEB-t9s164 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | VFX Breakdown | Framestore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkqTeQHFoBY Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | VFX by Trixter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fwgMBYWczM&t=202s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 VFX | Weta Digital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7act--iMgU What is USD: A Primer | Rob Stauffer | SIGGRAPH 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp_TRVD3wjQ SideFX Solaris Reveal | SIGGRAPH 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emcT5qXdUsc&t=2668s Houdini 19 Launch Reveal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfmtiz9qSI&t=556s Renderman 23 Feature Reel https://vimeo.com/376885270?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=13001435 Five Things to Know About USD | NVIDIA Omniverse Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFxytzQlOEs&t=158s What Makes USD Unique in NVIDIA Omniverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2x-30-PTkw Universal Scene Description: Open Source at Autodesk https://vimeo.com/365638295 Worldbuilding with USD at Ingenuity Studios | Grant Miller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvuYfOaKYGY&t=1392s MOVIE TRAILERS SOUL : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOsLIiBStEs&t=18s BRAVE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHWDA_6e3M&t=29s EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g