Chris Rydalch
ABSTRACT
We present a procedural block-based approach for USD pipelines that minimizes up-front USD knowledge requirements while ensuring users can still leverage the power of native USD. Building on USD and Conduit, we define fundamental workflow principles and philosophies on artist-interaction that guide our modular Houdini-based toolsets. Finally, we discuss the successes and challenges in scaling these workflows into production.
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- Rebecca Hallac, Tim Hoff, Chris Rydalch, Oliver Staeubli, Ryan Bland, Karyn Buczek Monschein, and Mark McGuire. 2021. A Pipeline Retrospective on USD & Conduit. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Talks (Virtual Event, USA) (SIGGRAPH ’21). Association for Computing Machinery.Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Oliver Staeubli, Tim Hoff, Ryan Bland, Rebecca Hallac, Josh Smeltzer, Chris Rydalch, Karyn Buczek Monschein, and Mark McGuire. 2019. Conduit: A Modern Pipeline for the Open Source World. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Talks (Los Angeles, California) (SIGGRAPH ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 47, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3306307.3328175Google ScholarDigital Library
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