USD streamlines workflows, enabling seamless collaboration across tools, platforms, and departments. Katana 7 introduces USD Native, allowing the import, composition, and manipulation of USD data inside Katana. Now, you can work with both native USD workflows and existing Katana features for a flexible transition to a USD pipeline while enjoying all the advantages Katana offers, like deferred loading, multi-shot workflows, Foresight+, Nuke Bridge, and more.

This tutorial will guide you through the new native USD workflows, specifically for building a multi-shot scene. Learn about the latest additions that support native USD, including the Scene Explorer tab and a collection of new nodes. Discover how to compose a stage inside Katana by bringing in your USD layers, such as payloads, look, layout, and animation, using the various composition arcs. We will also cover manipulating this data by editing properties, making transformations, setting variants, and more. Gain a complete understanding of how these tools can be applied.

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