USD for Technical Directors

Owned by Andrew Beers

Last updated: Jan 25, 2024 by Jessica Wang

What's a Technical Director?

Has artistic background but not necessarily working on day-to-day shotwork
Sets up everything needed for shots
May be more likely to know Python than C++
May generate custom schemas including codeless schemas
May customize DCC tools via plugins and custom configuration

Learning Resources

Guides

USD Code Samples: Short code snippets demonstrating common tasks and features of USD.
USDPluginExamples A collection of example USD plugins and plugin build tools
USD Cookbook Colin Kennedy's USD code and asset samples

Tutorials

USD Tutorials by Pixar

Additional Resources

See USD Resources Index

Helpful Tools

Animal Logic VSCode Highlighting (.usd, .usda, .usdc)
Syntax Highlighting for vim, emacs & sublime (.usda)
PyCharm Plug-in (.usda)

Frequently Asked Questions

See also AOUSD forum / ASWF Slack channels

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License: CC BY 4.0, Copyright Contributors to the ASWF USD working group.