Building a Scalable UGC Auto-Rigging Pipeline with OpenUSD

Collaborated with: Davide Munisso

This was a talk given at SIGGRAPH 2025 based on the auto-rigging technology developed at Genies. This talk explores how OpenUSD enables a scalable auto-rigging pipeline for user-generated content (UGC) in an avatar ecosystem. We discuss how OpenUSD supports an efficient procedural workflow, standardizes diverse asset representations through schemas, and optimizes pipeline execution and iteration via a structured task graph.

Check out the extended abstract here: PDF