We’re making AYON Studio licences available for free to educational institutions, helping students learn the production workflows behind animation, VFX and games.

During Annecy MIFA week, we’re happy to announce that AYON Studio licences are now free for educational institutions.

The offer is designed for schools, colleges, universities and training programmes teaching animation, VFX, games, virtual production or related creative disciplines.

We want students to gain hands-on experience with the production workflows used by modern creative teams, not only the software used to create the work.

Creative tools are only one part of a production. Students also need to understand how shots are assigned, how assets move through departments, how versions are published, how feedback is captured and how teams stay aligned across a project.

AYON Studio gives educators a practical way to bring those workflows into the classroom.

Learn how production really works

Most students already spend time learning digital content creation tools. They animate, model, rig, light, composite, edit and render.

But in a real studio, work rarely happens in isolation. Every task connects to a wider production. A shot belongs to a sequence. A version needs to be reviewed. A supervisor needs visibility. A production team needs to know what changed. A pipeline team needs a system that keeps work organised and consistent.

AYON helps students understand that bigger picture.

With AYON Studio, a class project can be run more like a real production. Students can work inside a structured project, publish versions, track tasks, review progress and respond to feedback in one connected environment.

For educators, that means fewer scattered spreadsheets, less manual file chasing and a clearer way to teach how creative production actually moves.

For students, it means building habits that transfer into studio work.

What students can learn with AYON Studio

AYON Studio brings together pipeline, production tracking, planning and review in one platform.

Students can use AYON to learn how to:

• Work with structured assets, shots, tasks and versions

• Publish work consistently from supported creative applications

• Track progress across departments and production stages

• Review work with playlists, annotations, comparisons and synced sessions

• Understand how artists, supervisors, producers and pipeline teams collaborate

• Build confidence with version history, production data and repeatable workflows

This makes AYON useful across creative, production and technical courses.

Artists can learn how their work moves through a pipeline. Production students can learn how to track tasks and manage feedback. Technical students can explore configuration, automation, integrations and pipeline behaviour.

How the education offer works

Eligible educational institutions can request AYON Studio licences for free.

The default option is to run AYON on-premise or on infrastructure managed by the institution. In that setup, there is no licence cost for AYON Studio.

If an institution would prefer to use AYON hosted on Ynput Cloud, that is also possible. The AYON Studio licences remain free, but the institution pays for the cloud hosting.

The offer for schools:

• AYON Studio licences are free for eligible educational institutions

• The offer applies when AYON is run on-premise or on your own infrastructure

• Ynput Cloud hosting is available as a paid hosting option

• The licences can be used for teaching, training and student production work

Speak to us at Annecy MIFA

We’re announcing this during Annecy MIFA week because education plays a vital role in the future of animation.

If you’re attending Annecy MIFA and want to explore AYON Studio for your school, come and speak to the AYON team. We’ll be available throughout the week to show the platform, discuss education use cases and explain what deployment could look like for your institution.

If you’re not attending Annecy, you can still get in touch with us directly.

We’d love to help more students learn the production workflows behind great creative work.

Request AYON Studio for education.