Hey, looking fine. I got your email but I can't answer it, I get a "unknown receiptant" when I try to send it.....

Here's what I wrote anyways:

well you only need to lay out the UV's if your material is using an image. If you only use colors there's no need for laying out the UV's. You don't have to use Studio at all, you can create materials, lights etc. and render directly from Maya with the plugin. But if you want to you export the whole scene and import it to studio and assign materials, set up lights and render from there.