John Montgomery, fxguide

Generation's flexible open architecture and extremely high level of collaborative functionality is brought to market after extensive use in production environments. Designed for, and specifically integrated with, eyeon's current highly-integrated VFX applications, eyeon Generation solidifies the demand for an end-to-end vfx environment.

The 64 bit technology has an industry-standard scripting engine for unprecedented integration and access of versatile working environments with multi-core processors and GPU acceleration. While scaling over an array of networked machines, a full floating point deep pixel image system gives high color fidelity and significant processing speeds. Live annotation and paint tools make communication of shot adjustments and fixes to the team easy and precise.

"Generation fits perfectly into our existing Fusion pipeline. Keeping track of multiple versions and doing reviews is a blast! The ability to assemble an entire project and manage the content is just awesome! Playing back, editing and collaborating on shots from all departments are essential to our workflow."

Theodor Groeneboom, Head Of Fusion, Prime Focus London

What Is Generation
Generation is a family of products for visual effects studios and broadcast facilities worldwide to collaborate on highly-optimized workflow. The Generation product line does not require constrictive databases or additional server hardware to optimize your current workflow. Brilliant open ASCII project architecture is powered by a infinitely-customizable scripting engine.

The Generation product line is comprised of three components that work together in a group capacity as part of the larger pipeline:

Generation Suite
Generation Suite sits at the head of the Generation product line, managing and administering projects from a few artists to thousands of artists, in a single facility or spread across multiple international sites. Generation Suite is a fully integrated compositing, editing, versioning and collaboration system designed to be the master suite in a film pipeline. Generation Suite contains all of the composting tools available in eyeon's award-winning Fusion, with seamless interoperability between compositing and full timeline editing. This complete versioning and revolutionary collaboration system brings together hundreds of shots from a complete project. The comprehensive annotation system provides accurate communication of shots or the timeline with easy interaction from the client to the supervisor and to the artist.

Generation Studio
Generation Studio contains all of the editing, versioning, annotation, and collaboration tools found in Generation Suite. Generation Studio is designed to augment current Fusion pipelines by expanding your Fusion facility towards a Generation workflow. Generation Studio allows supervisors and artists to work alongside their current Fusion pipeline and project by adding the ability to edit multiple shots, create version histories and collaborate across the project. Generation Studio integrates seamlessly with Generation Suite, Generation Player and eyeon Fusion.

Generation Player
Generation Player is the everyday workhorse of the Generation product line. Adding Generation Player to your current Fusion pipeline, or into multiple departments such as 3D, Lighting, and animation, instantly gives your artists access to a Generation project. Generation Player can open any part of the current project version history and insert the current version created to view. This gives Fusion artists and every member of your team the ability to play back their work, alongside the latest version of the project. Generation Player also contains all of the collaboration and annotation tools in the Generation family, providing complete integration into the project, into the latest version of shot, and into the complete international team working on the job.

Storyboard


GUI


Proxy Setting


Paint Annotations


Comparing Versions


Version Stack


Farming


Rendering