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INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Eyeon Offers Generation AM E yeon Software recently released its Generation visual effects and postproduction workflow management system, now referred to as Generation AM. With a global push for higher efficiencies, studios need to accelerate creativity while mastering the recurring demands of production. Generation AM provides the essential tools to organize the entire team, automate tasks and deliverables, and Where There's Smoke 2013… A utodesk recently began rolling out Smoke 2013, the latest version of the company's professional video editing software. Smoke 2013 is designed to meet the needs of professional editors working in video production, corporate video, online video, and other competitive creative environments where productions require editing and effects. The new Smoke offers editing and effects within a single, efficient timeline-based workflow and a sleek user interface; it runs on a wide variety of Apple MacBook Pro and Apple iMac computers. Extensive customer research and feedback received during the pre-release trial actively helped drive the product development. New features, which grew directly out of user recommendations, include: the ability to drag and drop a clip from the source player into the timeline, the ability to expand/collapse the timeline FX pipeline area, and the redesign and streamlining of the UI and interface elements to speed up workflows. Autodesk revamped Smoke to address a growing niche for editors who need to do more than just edit. In a recent survey of over 300 active users of the trial download, over half of which were new to Smoke, many respondents called out the benefits of having an all-in-one package that integrates editing and effects. Autodesk Smoke 2013 is priced at $3,495 per license. sustain precise communication. This transparent collaboration supports up-to-the-minute details of jobs, talent, and deadlines. Designed with a scripting engine from the ground up, Generation AM is a flexible and customizable visual front-end to any studio's pipeline. Generation AM can run both Lua and Python scripts to match any facility's environment. Users can control everything remotely via script, and since all the metadata is stored as XML, all implementations, from adding comments to modifying entire projects, can be done from within other applications as well. Generation AM sells $995. Animation Mentor Builds Distributed Pipeline A nimation Mentor, an online animation and VFX school, has unveiled the AMP fully distributed studio production pipeline. The pipeline is a key element in the addition of the school's new VFX curriculum and restructured animation program. Starting with the Spring 2013 term, Animation Mentor students will train on this professional production pipeline. The AMP pipeline is a professional-grade distributed asset and shot management tool that allows students to collaborate with other Animation Mentor students around the globe to produce finished films and sequences under the direction of their mentor. The education takes place on the school's Studio Learning Platform, a series of proprietary tools that work together to provide students with the real experience of working on a studio production. January/February 2013 CGW0113-Spotlightpfin.indd 5 5 1/31/13 5:01 PM