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Forge: Forging a New Animation Pipeline With USD

SIGGRAPH 2018

Contributors:
Aloys Baillet
Eoin Murphy
Oliver Dunn
Miguel Gao

Abstract:
The Peter Rabbit movie features 5 hero characters and dozens of
secondary characters animated across more than 1100 shots. We introduce some practical and production-proven solutions to
integrate Pixar™ Universal Scene Description (USD) into Autodesk
Maya® based on our now open-sourced AL_USDMaya plugin, and
how they were used to create a high-performance and intuitive
animation platform.

Read the full Forging a New Animation Pipeline with USD paper here!