Softimage Alienbrain version control functionality ensures that only the current version of a file is used and no data is accidentally overwritten or lost. The system stores all versions of a file ever created, allows you to preview those versions, and to rollback to any version with the click of a mouse. Working with a single system helps your whole team to collaborate smoothly. Alienbrain 8.1 supports the latest operating systems and the latest artist and developer tools. You can upgrade to the most recent versions of your favorite applications and still enjoy Alienbrain's rock-solid management tools that help you keep projects on track and let artists focus on their art.
Planning an OS upgrade? No problem! Alienbrain 8.1 runs on Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard. Take advantage of the latest computing technologies knowing that your Alienbrain asset management solution will keep on running smoothly.
Dying to get your hands on the killer new features in your favorite app? Go right ahead. Alienbrain 8.1 supports the latest versions of the most popular 2D and 3D artist tools including:
The Central License Server (CLS) makes it easy to maintain, manage, and track licenses across multiple Alienbrain servers. You can set up servers for load-balancing, back-ups, or to boost performance, using a single license file. Licenses are allocated on a per-user basis with no time restriction.
Project grouping features allow you to perform administrative tasks across multiple projects, making frequent configuration modifications You can use those groups to change user privileges, bucket configurations, backup configurations, and more, for multiple projects simultaneously.
To help teams working remotely, we’ve created a lean and mean mode for the Alienbrain client, optimized to run over slow connections. Easy to toggle on and off, the Slow Connection Mode keeps artists working when network traffic is high. Complementing the remote client is a Shared Client Cache for frequently used data, which helps to reduce traffic between remote and local sites.
Working on your game just got easier. Alienbrain 8.1 feratures integrated previewing of DirectX (.x) files. Now you can review your DirectX content without switching applications.
Alienbrain is compliant with Microsoft’s .NET framework and programming languages such as C#, offering an easy-to-use interface integrated with the Visual Studio development environment, offering programmers a native interaction with Alienbrain Studio.
Alienbrain offers the most intuitive work environment available for CG projects, allowing you to get started with virtually no training. For example, an average team of 20 users can be productive within half a day. The user-friendly interface provides immediate access to files, folders, reports and metadata. Built-in thumbnails and preview create a visual work environment and enable all team members to easily locate and manage large sets of project data, such as 2D and 3D images, spreadsheets, documents, source code or videos.
The integrated messaging system improves communication by allowing you to attach live links and previewable thumbnails to your messages. Your team members can then quickly access the relevant files directly from your message. You can either use your standard e-mail application or the messaging feature in Alienbrain Studio. The visual annotation feature enables you and your team to more efficiently review files and move them through the visual annotation feature enables you and your team to more efficiently review files and move them through the workflow.
Alienbrain open architecture and well-documented APIs make the system adaptable to customer-specific requirements. It runs in mixed environments with native clients for Windows, Unix and Macintosh operating systems.
Bucketing is faster and easier than ever now that we’ve replaced the bucketing wizard with a dedicated view. Buckets are now created automatically during the bucketing process so you don’t have to create them manually, and it’s possible to bucket a dedicated branch or across branches. Searching is much faster and scales with the number of search criteria. There is also an improved bucketing log file.
Alienbrain is designed to support mixed teams of programmers and designers. It offers easy-to-use branching, sharing and pinning functionality and delivers Araxis Merge Professional as an integrated component of the Developer Client for advanced source code management.
In Alienbrain you can link tasks with files, set due dates and assign them to individual team members. Visit our product tour to see how files can be entered into a workflow. Reporting and analysis tools provide control over the progress of your project, allowing you to efficiently allocate resources, avoid bottlenecks and keep the project on track. Visit our product tour for an example of a workflow report. The product extension Alienbrain PMX seamlessly integrates with MS Project, allowing you to create tasks in MS Project and assign assets and resources to those tasks. You can choose to use a direct sync with MS Project to automatically update your project plans.
New branches no longer inherit properties from their parent nodes by default. Instead, they have branch-specific meta-data, allowing you to configure a distinct sign-off workflow for each branch.
Alienbrain works out-of-the-box and enables you to get started with minimal effort and very little training. Project data can be imported quickly via drag & drop from your current file structure. Detailed documentation provides in-depth information on the use and functionality of Alienbrain. Tutorials, training and easily accessible customer service makes sure that you get the most of your asset management investment.
Alienbrain Essentials offers two specifically optimized editions for mid-size productions. Essentials for Artists features a highly visual user interface with fast previews and thumbnails and unrivaled third-party integration support into the latest releases of leading 2D and 3D design packages. Essentials for Programmers includes software configuration management with intuitive branching features and change sets, integration into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the award-winning Araxis Merge™ Professional.
Alienbrain Advanced , targeted at mixed or complex productions, offers full project control with extensive reporting and communication tools designed for team leads and project managers. In addition to the feature set of Essentials, the Advanced package includes powerful reporting and workflow capabilities, cross-platform support for Mac OS X and Linux users, and additional plug-ins for high-end design and animation applications like Alias StudioTools.
Alienbrain Reader adds a free client edition for read-only access to an Alienbrain repository. Alienbrain Reader is the perfect tool for automated build machines or casual users that need to get specific asset revisions or perform any other non-modifying operations. Typical scenarions include (but are not limited to) automatic build process or rendering/compositing farms.
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