Aloys Baillet
Eoin Murphy
Oliver Dunn
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 opensourced AL_USDMaya plugin, and how they were used to create a high performance and intuitive animation platform.
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Forging a new animation pipeline with USD
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