AQJRO PROJECT - Development Update
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Date of publication:
Nov 9, 2026 11:50:38 AM
Author’s comment:
The project continues to evolve.
Active development of the Experimental Scientific Station is currently underway. Its architecture, infrastructure, individual components, and technical systems are being expanded and refined. The focus is not only on creating new visual elements, but also on building a coherent production environment in which every component follows a unified design and technical logic.
One of the most significant milestones in the project's development has been the creation of the AQJRO Asset Standard (AAS).
AAS is a custom production standard developed specifically for AQJRO, based on Autodesk Maya, Pixar USD (OpenUSD), and Arnold. It establishes a unified approach to asset organization, modular assembly, material authoring, metadata, variants, and publishing.
The standard is no longer just an experimental framework or a set of technical guidelines. AAS is now actively used in the production of AQJRO assets.
This has fundamentally changed the development workflow. Assets are created and published within a consistent structure, making them easier to manage, reuse, extend, and integrate into complex scenes.
Alongside the development of the station, I am also working on procedural production tools and workflow automation using Bifrost. Recent experiments with MASH to Bifrost to USD have resulted in a reusable instancing workflow that supports structured USD publishing and animated instance data.
The goal is to develop not just a collection of 3D assets, but a sustainable production ecosystem capable of supporting increasingly complex environments and systems.
AQJRO is an ongoing independent project, and this is another important step in its development.
More updates coming soon.
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Autodesk Maya
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