OpenUSD for Artists: A First Stage Tested in Houdini Solaris
AI-assisted disclosure: Codex assisted with research, code and writing. Measurements, failure cases and limitations are retained from the original article. Originally published by Alicia on 2026-10-19: Digital Garden by Alicia. OpenUSD becomes easier to understand when one asset appears twice in a scene and changing its source updates both copies. This experiment does exactly that: a cylinder and sphere stand in for a plant, two references place it in a garden, and a stronger shot layer changes…