Overview

LoUPE combines all key components of a digital production pipeline into one powerful tool for the first time. Offering more flexibility and software integrations for users, LoUPE empowers animators and studios to work more collaboratively and efficiently on creative productions. That means more time creating.

LoUPE has five key components:

  1. Asset Management
  2. Project Management
  3. Review & Collaboration
  4. Render Management (On-Prem & Cloud)
  5. Real-time Reporting

Asset Management

Comprehensive versioning of all animation production assets is now at your fingertips. Using cloud-based technology and our LoUPE Transit Manager teams can easily track all versions of their digital media assets across multiple locations. You can also create custom views and filters to manage, sort, and view all of your media assets.

Whether you’re working on-premises or remotely, you can count on the Asset Manager to handle version control and file transfer automatically and intelligently, and get data to and from the cloud securely and as efficiently as possible.

Integrations are provided for Blender and Autodesk’s Maya so that all of your managed data is available without ever having to leave your DCC.

Project Management

From one central place, you will have total and secure control of all production task tracking and data sets.

Take advantage of a new way to manage your work with LoUPE’s “three-dimensional” Kanban board. This unique approach to the popular Kanban methodology lets you visualize the processes at every stage of a CG production at any level of detail. LoUPE’s Summary Statuses and Detail Statuses further extend Kanban to help track progress, spot bottlenecks, and unify reporting across multiple projects.

For when you need a different perspective, List Views provide intuitive controls to sort, filter, and group the same data.

Get going with one our built-in project templates, or use the advanced Types and Template editors to define your own enttiies and project structures.

Review & Collaboration

Hold real-time media review sessions with collaborators in different locations all over the world.

Easily create playlists by dragging and dropping media from anywhere in LoUPE, then watch media, draw annotations, and write notes together with other users in real-time. Create tasks from any note without leaving the Review to make sure no feedback goes unaddressed.

Render Management

Integrate in-house rendering with powerful cloud-based capabilities.

AWS Thinkbox Deadline’s hassle-free hybrid render management tool ships with LoUPE. It allows for faster render times, increased reliability, hyper-scale capabilities, and enhanced efficiency for your animation productions.

Real-time Reporting

LoUPE comes with an OData connection that’s ready to use with almost zero configuration, right out of the box. By connecting your reports to your production data via this live link, you’ll never have to export a CSV, or manually update a report again. OData support is built into many popular productivity packages, including Microsoft Excel and Power BI.

Create real-time reports including heat maps, dashboards and health status metrics to gain insight on project progress. Empower your staff with easily customizable at-a-glance and strategic analytics.

APIs

LoUPE ships with Python and REST APIs, empowering developers to build their own integrations, or extend the built-in asset management capabilities to fit their existing processes and pipelines.