On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM, shreekant bohra skbohra123@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I always come across discussion about gnu/linux not being good for design and animation, here is some eye opener . Dreamworks, the worlds largest movie production house uses gnu/linux more than anything else. Check out
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9653 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803
Thanks for the links; however the use of open source in SFX and Animation goes back a long way, to name a few block busters Titanic, Shrek, .... In fact, when Titanic was released, one of the main stream weekly mags in the US carried an article on how the special effects of the movie had been done along with a picture of the HP render farm (blade servers). I'll venture most high quality work has been done on open source platform - workstations and render farms.
IIRC, Houdini releases it's new versions first on Linux.
Local to Mumbai, Rhythm N Hue (sp?) and another 3 studios (known to me) run on open source platform and Python is the favorite programming language. The graphics artists are non geeks and they are comfortable with both the GNOME and the KDE desktops.
IMO, the problem with the nay sayers to FOSS is their unwillingness to learn something new. There is always some learning curve involved irrespective of the OS - they are perfectly willing to expend the time and energy to learn the new UI of every release of Windows but not on the Linux desktop.
-- Arun Khan