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Projects and resources relating to Pixar's Universal Scene Description

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Pixar Resources
- openusd.org The official website
- The History of USD, by F. Sebastian Grassia and George Elkoura
- USD Interest Google Group
- Introductory Videos Several video presentations by Pixar
- UsdSkel All about skinning schemas for USD
- USD based pipelines 2016 presentation on Pixar's use of USD in the pipeline
- Simple Shading In USD Pixar's docs for USD preview material
Using USD with Apple's technologies WWDC 2017 presentation
USD at UTS Animal Logic Academy video presentations
USD Cookbook Colin Kennedy's USD code and asset samples
Dreamworks USD Integration
Luma USD Integration Brief notes on Luma's pipeline
Unity USD SDK
- Unity USD SDK Presentation about the Unity USD SDK
- Unity USD SDK Design notes on the Unity USD SDK's API
- Unity USD SDK Details on using the Unity USD SDK
Autodesk resources
- Autodesk landing page for USD (includes recording of past presentations)
- Experimenting with USD in Game Pipelines Autodesk Developer Summit, GDC 2022
nVidia Resources
- GPU Technology Conference (GTC - free, registration required)
  - Course: Getting Started with USD for Collaborative 3D Workflows
  - GTC 2022 Sessions (free, registration required)
- usdview documentation by nVidia at the Omniverse site
- USD as the language of the metaverse
- Useful USD code patterns in the Omniverse documentation
SIGGRAPH
- Building the Open Metaverse SIGGRAPH 2022 (slides here)

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usdat DreamWorks usd ASCII format with templates. usdat allows the definition of a common template layer for an asset. Properties and references can be defined at asset install time as part of the reference to that asset when it is added to a scene, rather than using a separate composition arc like an override or a variant.
usdStl An STL file format plugin for USD by Charles Flèche
usdFBX An FBX file format plugin by Remedy Entertainment. Related blog post: https://www.remedygames.com/northlight-openusd-workflows/

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