A Pipeline Retrospective on USD & Conduit
Rebecca Hallac, Tim Hoff, Chris Rydalch, Ryan Bland, Oliver Staeubli, Karyn Buczek Monschein, Mark McGuire · 2021
Over the past three years, Blue Sky Studios built a USD-centric layer on top of its next generation pipeline framework, Conduit. This transition involved mapping the legacy Blue Sky workflows into USD constructs. In addition, direct artist feedback during the delivery of six short films provided insights that informed the evolution of the Conduit backend to support these modernized workflows.