Beginners Guide to Bifrost USD | Add data & USD Prim definitions to a USD Stage

In this video I start exploring the new Bifrost USD workflow in the latest Autodesk Maya 2023. This Part 2 of my tutorial exploring how to use Bifrost to create a a USD Stage with Layers. In this video, we'll continue from Part 1 where we created a stage with some layers, and now look at how to start adding data to the stage and how assign the data to the USD layers. ---------------------------------------------------- CHAPTERS 00:00​ Introduction 00:40 Starting to Add data 03:40 Selecting a USD Layer using Bifrost 06:40 Add a USD Prim Definition 12:09 Adding USD attributes 15:15 Creating groups and hierarchies 17:53 Adding data to other USD layers 20:58 Adding USD Mesh data to a USD layer 24:47 Adding Maya Mesh data to a USD layer 28:15 Summary of the USD graph 32:13 Exporting and loading the USD stage 35:10 Outro ---------------------------------------------------- Like what you see, then buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zeroconditional 👇🏼 OTHER VIDEOS FROM ME YOU MIGHT LIKE 👇🏼 ✔️Reduce Maya crashes and improve your workflow https://youtu.be/M1peJLW5DiA ✔️USD Maya Workflow for Beginners https://youtu.be/37983btrp90 ✔️What's New in Autodesk Maya 2023 https://youtu.be/XwF_GjSjLB8 ---------------------------------------------------- 🚨AUTODESK RESOURCES🚨 Official Maya 2023 documentation - https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2023/ENU/ Github for Autodesk's open source MayaUSD plugin - https://github.com/Autodesk/maya-usd Pixar intro to USD - https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/docs/index.html Autodesk Maya Community site https://area.autodesk.com/community/groups/maya Bifrost USD Lab pack download https://area.autodesk.com/m/jonah-friedman/assets/9kJge9wyw ---------------------------------------------------- 🚨MY HARDWARE SPEC🚨 Windows 10 Pro Workstation Tower AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core 3700 Mhz 64 GB RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 🔗 SOCIAL MEDIA 🔗 Twitter - @zeroconditional