openPYPE- pipeline with support

Battle tested

Designed, used, broken-in and validated in collaboration with many studios, who's artist have used it on projects ranging from commercials, to features.

Supported

OpenPYPE is developed and maintained by PYPE.club, a full-time, dedicated team of industry professionals, providing support and training to studios and artists.

Extensible

Project needs differ, clients differ and studios differ. OpenPype is designed to fit into your workflow and bend to your will. If a feature is missing, it can most probably be added.

Focused

All OpenPype features have been added to solve specific needs during it's use in production. If something is obsolete, it is carefully deprecated, to keep the codebase lean and easier to maintain.

What is openPype?

Open-source pipeline for visual effects and animation built on top of the Avalon framework, expanding it with extra features and integrations. OpenPype connects your DCCs, asset database, project management and time tracking into a single system. It has a tight integration with Ftrack, but can also run independently or be integrated into a different project management solution.

OpenPype provides a robust platform for your studio, without the worry of a vendor lock. You will always have full access to the source-code and your project database will run locally or in the cloud of your choice.

Why choose openPype?

Pipeline is the technical backbone of your production. It means, that whatever solution you use, it will cause vendor-lock to some extend. You can mitigate this risk by developing purely in-house tools, however, that just shifts the problem from a software vendor to your developers. Sooner or later, you'll hit the limits of such solution. In-house tools tend to be undocumented, narrow focused and heavily dependent on a very few or even a single developer.

OpenPYPE aims to solve these problems. It has dedicated and growing team of developers and support staff, that can provide the comfort of a commercial solution, while giving you the benefit of a full source-code access. You can build and deploy it yourself, or even fork and continue in-house if you're not happy about where openPYPE is heading in the future.