An overview of Alienbrain alternatives for game art
A comparison to help you choose an alternative to Alienbrain management software and version control for game art.
Anchorpoint makes it easy for our team of designers and developers to collaborate with our Git workflow. It works seamlessly with GitLab and allows us to centralize all our project working files.
Anchorpoint is not a web-based DAM where you work in your web browser to view and manage your assets. For example, it is not designed for e-commerce where you want to stream 3D assets from your DAM to your web store.
Anchorpoint is a desktop application that can read and manage your work files (.blend, substance, PSD, EXR, etc.). Anchorpoint is designed for your art asset pipeline, where you need to create, review and approve assets.
You can apply asset management features such as tagging or commenting to any file and use a custom thumbnail. Anchorpoint can generate thumbnails for common image and video formats such as png, mp4, etc., as well as psd, psb, exr, hdr, tif, tga, svg, ai, pdf, obj, gltf, glb, fbx, blend, c4d, uasset, umap, sbs, sbsar and other industry-relevant file formats.
Anchorpoint does not create a database file alongside the original files. It shares the metadata through a cloud service that runs in the background. This ensures that your team receives real-time updates and notifications when, for example, you add a comment with an @mention.
Anchorpoint takes care of the metadata (tags, comments, templates, etc.) to make these assets easier to manage. Dropbox and Google Drive sync files, but they don't have a way to organize your assets outside of normal folder structures. Anchorpoint has a much richer system that you can use to organize your assets. It also allows you to perform reviews and approval steps.
Yes, you can self host the server on your system if you subscribe to an Organization pricing plan. See our pricing page for more information.