Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 19, 2007 03:01 AM
Studio Users
Studios such as Sony Pictures Imageworks and many smaller studios use CinePaint. Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar funded Crossover (Wine) to make Adobe Photoshop for Windows run nicely on Linux and that's what they use. Some studios use proprietary or internally developed tools. CinePaint is open source software. Nobody is obligated to tell us they use it. Studios use many Linux motion picture applications, not just CinePaint. This list of studios using CinePaint is just some we know about.
* Amalgamated Pixels
Elf, Looney Tunes
* Computer Cafe
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
* Flash Film Works
Duplex, The Last Samurai
* Hammerhead
Showtime, Blue Crush, 2 Fast, 2 Furious
* Rhythm & Hues
Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, Planet of the Apes
* Sony Pictures Imageworks
Stuart Little II, Spider-Man
What's Special about CinePaint?
CinePaint is fundamentally different from other painting tools because it handles high fidelity image formats such as Kodak Cineon, SMPTE DPX, and ILM-NVIDIA OpenEXR. To do that properly requires a 32-bit per channel color engine core so that data isn't crushed into 8-bit color channels. The CinePaint core is 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit as needed. It's different from GraphicsMagick which also supports different color depths but only as a compile-time switch. (GraphicsMagick has better support for film industry file formats than ImageMagick.)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 19, 2007 03:01 AMStudios such as Sony Pictures Imageworks and many smaller studios use CinePaint. Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar funded Crossover (Wine) to make Adobe Photoshop for Windows run nicely on Linux and that's what they use. Some studios use proprietary or internally developed tools. CinePaint is open source software. Nobody is obligated to tell us they use it. Studios use many Linux motion picture applications, not just CinePaint. This list of studios using CinePaint is just some we know about.
* Amalgamated Pixels
Elf, Looney Tunes
* Computer Cafe
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
* Flash Film Works
Duplex, The Last Samurai
* Hammerhead
Showtime, Blue Crush, 2 Fast, 2 Furious
* Rhythm & Hues
Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, Planet of the Apes
* Sony Pictures Imageworks
Stuart Little II, Spider-Man
What's Special about CinePaint?
CinePaint is fundamentally different from other painting tools because it handles high fidelity image formats such as Kodak Cineon, SMPTE DPX, and ILM-NVIDIA OpenEXR. To do that properly requires a 32-bit per channel color engine core so that data isn't crushed into 8-bit color channels. The CinePaint core is 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit as needed. It's different from GraphicsMagick which also supports different color depths but only as a compile-time switch. (GraphicsMagick has better support for film industry file formats than ImageMagick.)
Ref: "http://cinepaint.org/
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