USD (or Universal Scene Description) is quickly becoming a hot topic in the world of computer graphics. But what is it exactly, and why should you care? In this video, we get down to the bottom of it from an artist's perspective.

This movie shows you some techniques to speed up your interactions with the Toolbox in Maya.

This movie shows you how to access some of the lesser known menus in Maya.

This movie shows you how to using Maya's sculpting tools to create jacket patterns, stitches, wrinkles, and creases that you can then output to a normal map for use on a lower resolution model.

This movie shows you how to using Maya's sculpting tools to create clothing wrinkles and creases that you can then output to a normal map for use on a lower resolution model.

This movie shows you how to create a quick UV mesh and then extrude to create thickness.

This movie shows you how to use the various tools in the Modeling Toolkit to clean up a jacket's topology.

This movie shows you how to use the Modeling Toolkit's Quad Draw tool to build the shoulder portion of a jacket mesh.

This movie shows you how to create and retopologize a jacket mesh for our Detective Emma character, starting by using the Shrink Wrap Tool to create a sleeve and torso.

This movie shows you how to use XGen to create a series of primitive cubes, then adjust their heights and color via ptex map to create interesting works of art.