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

Опубликовано: 17 Март 2026
на канале: Adrien Lambert

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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 :
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Mentioned documentation :
USD SOURCE CODE : https://github.com/PixarAnimationStud...
PIXAR GLOSSARY : https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/releas...
SIDEFX GLOSSARY : https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/s...
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