In this first tutorial of the Intro to USD Workflow series, Yingying provides an overview of the USD prim hierarchy and variant sets. You’ll learn a typical USD structure and the variant switching feature of Maya USD. This tutorial series includes four tutorials covering USD composition, assembly, caching animation and lighting.

The original models of all the assets used in this tutorial were created by KITBASH3D:
https://kitbash3d.com/

Get familiar with USD terminology and composition through Maya Online Help:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-70EB23EE-4006-4927-9D2B-840BEED6177A