Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 22 was recently released, so I thought it was a good time to check out the latest version of the popular animation tool. And if you’ve been in the film industry for some time and are looking to move to different industries, know that there is an exit strategy, because your USD knowledge will be useful in so many ways far beyond making films and TV shows. If you are already an artist in Houdini or Maya or Katana, start digging into the USD workflow that has been set up for you. If you are techie enough, you can get the builds for free and dive into the technology yourself. USD is not an elusive, arcane technology. So, what does this mean for the animators and artists out there? First and foremost, knowing how USD works in our VFX and animation pipelines will be an advantage. USD is helping visualize and economize in completely unrelated industries such as car manufacturing and home furniture designing. The Metaverse is now using USD to share assets and define worlds. VR and AR headsets and implementing USD to define the 3D worlds we are experiencing.
The apps on our phones and tablets that have 3D objects are utilizing USD technology. These methods have been driven by the animation and VFX industries, for their own niche purposes.
And is the most effective way to view the USD scenes we are assembling. Each has begun to implement Hydra in their viewports, which is a scalable rendering architecture that ships with USD. We have already seen software adoption of USD - Houdini, Maya, Max, Nuke, Mari, Katana, Unreal, Unity, the list goes on. We have had attempts in the form of FBX or Alembic files, but USD looks like it is shepherding in the new way that we share scenes. A huge problem with describing scenes is not exclusively about building the scenes - but in a world where every studio has their own flavor - sharing scenes is, and has been, a thorn in our sides. USD is a framework developed by the big brains at Pixar as a way to efficiently define a scene made up of large quantities of 3D elements and parameters.
If you are involved with 3D art at all and haven’t investigated Universal Scene Description (USD), then you are already behind the curve - because it is quickly becoming ubiquitous, and not just in animation and visual effects.
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