Planner Addon

The Planner is AYON's resource and booking system.

Planner - Addon Overview

The Plan tab is the studio-level timeline where you book resources, manage capacity and check workload.

Planner - Plan (Bookings)

Planner - Resources

The Schedule tab lives inside each project and is where you plan the project's actual tasks day by day.

Planner - Schedule Tasks

Feedback

Roadmap

Changelog

Developer Portal

AYON Playground

Introductionary video for artists encountering the AYON web frontend for the very first time.

AYON First Steps

The AYON Playground offers a fully populated sandbox environment to explore how production tracking, asset management, and client reviews work in real time without setting up anything. This guide takes you on a tour through the primary tabs and daily tools you’ll interact with inside the AYON web interface.

Explore AYON with AYON Playground

This guide provides an end-to-end walkthrough of how to start your first AYON workspace using Ynput Cloud. From deploying your first AYON Workspace to conducting asset reviews and running a full artist pipeline.

Getting Started with AYON on Ynput Cloud: A Complete Studio Walkthrough

A simple, step-by-step guide designed to get you up and running without any technical headaches. Learn how to launch your own dedicated AYON workspace using Ynput Cloud in just a few clicks, choose the right subscription plan, and easily manage your user seats and billing from a single central dashboard.

Getting Started with AYON: Cloud-hosted

Introductory video for artists and AYON web interface

Introductory Video

General

AYON Introduction

AYON is a robust and interconnected studio platform and as such it comes with certain terminology. This page explains the most important terms and concepts that you will need on a daily basis while working with it.

AYON Glossary

AYON Platform Update

Configuration

Working with settings

Project Anatomy

Core Addon Settings

Applications and Tools

All you need to know to manage your admins, managers, artists and guests

User Management

Colorspace Settings

This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for managing projects on AYON Server. It covers creating new projects, configuring project attributes, and organizing your projects view using folders, pins, and search filters. You will also learn how to deactivate projects and execute project-level web actions.

Managing Projects

Track your projects progress and manage tasks with AYON Production Tracking tools.

Production Tracking

Tasks (Home) Page

The Details Panel

Activity Feed and Comments

Project Overview Page

Task Progress Page

Inbox and Notifications

Power Features

Lists

Create Versions Without a Pipeline

Reviewables

Powerful feedback tools with the Review Addon.

Review Sessions

The Teams page organises your users for better management across AYON.

Teams

View and browse your published content with powerful filters and beautiful thumbnails.

Products and Versions Page

Browser Page (dreprecated)

Links create relationships between your projects entities.

Links Manager

Save, manage, and share custom page layouts in AYON with Views. Configure personalized page layouts and share them with your team.

Views

Calculated Attributes

Reports

Subtasks

Node Graph

Data Import

Pipeline

Installing AYON Launcher on User Machine

About AYON Pipeline

Pipeline Tools

This page explains the basic usage of AYON Launcher, including the Tray Menu and how to use different actions.

Launcher

Launcher - Admin Notes

Creator / Publisher

Scene Inventory

Loader

The tool replaces the traditional 'File Open' and 'File Save' functions within your host application. 

Workfiles

Look Assigner

Experimental Tools

Browser

Process Monitor Tool

Project Archival Tool

Site Sync

Workflow

An overview of workflow addon features, the development roadmap, technical considerations, and the installation process.

AYON Workflow Introduction

Workflow Editor: Your First workflows

This guide covers how to turn your AYON workflow graphs into automations: triggering them from events like version creation, on a schedule, or from folder and version actions, with hands-on examples using the addon's built-in demo workflows.

Workflows & Automations

This guide covers installing the Workflow addon (requires an AYON Studio license), running the event processor service — either as an AYON service or via CLI — and configuring the Dispatch Directory and Simple Actions settings.

Configure Workflow Addon

Tray Publisher

Working with AYON Tray Publisher

Tray Publisher for TDs

Tray Publisher Addon Settings

Introduction: Tray Publisher

Slater

Using Slater Addon

Slate Editor

Batch Delivery

Introduction: AYON Batch Delivery

Batch Delivery Configuration

This guide walks you through the lifecycle of a delivery, from initial triggers to verifying the final output.

Batch Delivery User Guide

This page provides practical configurations for common production requirements.

Batch Delivery Hand Book

Advanced Burnins

Web Publisher

Batch Ingest

OpenUSD

Why and What is OpenUSD?

AYON OpenUSD Contribution Workflow

Learn how the AYON OpenUSD Resolver uses entity URIs to resolve dynamic file paths in OpenUSD, with support for versioning, farm rendering, pinning, mapping, and debugging.

AYON OpenUSD Resolver

OpenUSD Addon Settings

OpenUSD Contribution Workflow Settings

Pipeline Features

AYON Review Processing

AYON Templated Workfile Builder Reference

Frequently asked questions about AYON pipeline

AYON Desktop Review Addon

Server Integrations

Single Sign-On

Keycloak

Kitsu

Working with Kitsu in AYON

Configure Kitsu Addon

Kitsu Addon Settings

ftrack

Working with ftrack in AYON

ftrack Manager

ftrack Actions

Configure ftrack Addon

ftrack Addon Settings

Flow (ShotGrid)

Configure Flow (ShotGrid) Addon

Flow (ShotGrid) Addon Settings

Slack

SyncSketch

Clockify

Jira

AYON Air Table Addon

Addons for integrating AYON into digital content creation software.

DCC Integrations

3DEqualizer

Working with 3DEqualizer in AYON

Configure 3DEqualizer Addon

3ds Max

Working with 3ds Max in AYON

3ds Max Addon Settings

After Effects

Working with After Effects in AYON

AfterEffects Addon Settings

Blender

Working with Blender in AYON

Configure Blender Addon

CelAction

CelAction Addon Settings

Cinema4D

Working with AYON in Cinema4D​

Configure Cinema4D Addon

ComfyUi

AYON ComfyUi Setup Guide

Deadline

Working with Deadline in AYON

Configure Deadline Addon

Royal Render

Configure Royal Render Addon

Flame

This guide walks you through a standard, end-to-end editorial workflow using Autodesk Flame integrated with AYON. Rather than covering every possible feature, this walkthrough focuses on a practical, real-world project scenario.