“Forging a New Animation Pipeline with USD” by Baillet, Murphy, Dunn and Gao
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Entry Number: 55
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- Forging a New Animation Pipeline with USD
Session/Category Title: USD certified lean, eh?
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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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Acknowledgements:
We would like to acknowledge the tremendous help provided by many Pixar developers along the way.
We thank all the Animal Logic Developers (Daniel Barry, Rob Bateman, Jon-Patrick Collins, Marco Giordano, Hongbin Hu, Hao- liang Jiang, Fabrice Macagno, Michael Quandt), Technical Directors, Technical Animators and Animators who all contributed to Forge during the Peter Rabbit production.
