Tutorials

Tutorials for beginners

Learn how to get started building graphs in either MaterialX or USD, then continue on to learn the end-to-end workflow of creating a material for a dinosaur.

• Intro to LookdevX - Creating a shader using the USD data model

• Intro to LookdevX - Creating a shader using the MaterialX data model

• Intro to LookdevX - Creating a dinosaur shader

Learn Shading Techniques

Follow the tutorials below to learn essential basic and advanced shading techniques in LookdevX.

• Publishing: Learn how to create a simple reusable MaterialX node via publishing

• Ramp: Creating a cell shading effect with the Ramp node

• OpenPBR: Subsurface Scattering - User Guide

• An Introduction to OpenPBR Surface in Arnold

• Automating Randomization

• MaterialX Displacement - User Guide

• Procedural Brick

• Procedural Patterns

• Shading with Procedural Noises

Creating paper lamps using Maya USD, Bifrost and LookdevX

This two-part video tutorial series introduces the procedural workflow for creating materials in LookdevX. In the first part, using a paper lamp as an example, you will learn how to procedurally create a USD stage in Bifrost as a preparation for the material assignment, then learn how to create Arnold materials in LookdevX. In the second part you will learn how to create USD instances of the lamp, and how to automate the process of random material assignment.

• Procedural Workflows: Creating Materials for a Paper Lamp

• Procedural Workflow: Random Material Assignment

Learn Maya USD

USD (or Universal Scene Description) is quickly becoming the computer graphics industry's leading schema. Here you'll find workflows on how to use USD with Maya and Bifrost.

• Maya USD tutorials.

• USD in Bifrost.

• Create a USD stage in Maya.