Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 10, 2007 06:45 PM
Which is why Hollywood is such a big user of Linux.. With a big budget and limited time they can't wait for someone to add a feature or fix a problem - they take the option of doing it themselves. From the story below is seems that they even require most of their commercial software suppliers to make their sources available.
A very interesting read: <a href="http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/video_linux_hollywood/" title="digitalcon...oducer.com">http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/vid<nobr>e<wbr></nobr> o_linux_hollywood/</a digitalcon...oducer.com>
"At the software level, studios are using Linux versions of some of the leading commercial applications for 3D animation, compositing, special effects, and rendering — Alias Maya, Apple Shake, and Pixar RenderMan. Internally, the major studios have ported millions of lines of proprietary code to Linux and are creating their new programs in Linux."
"An irony of the migration of software to Linux is that Apple and Pixar became leading suppliers of Linux software. The most popular motion picture compositing software — Apple Shake (Linux in 2000) — and the most popular renderer — Pixar RenderMan (Linux in 1999) — are both sold by companies headed by Steve Jobs. Jobs hasn't made any pro-Linux statements regarding the future of his products (and recently Apple dropped the price of the Apple version of Shake so much that the Apple computer to run it seemed free). How the Mac/Linux equation will play out remains a concern for studios intent on controlling their destiny by staying with an open-source operating system rather than beholden to a proprietary third-party platform."
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 10, 2007 06:45 PMA very interesting read:
<a href="http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/video_linux_hollywood/" title="digitalcon...oducer.com">http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/vid<nobr>e<wbr></nobr> o_linux_hollywood/</a digitalcon...oducer.com>
"At the software level, studios are using Linux versions of some of the leading commercial applications for 3D animation, compositing, special effects, and rendering — Alias Maya, Apple Shake, and Pixar RenderMan. Internally, the major studios have ported millions of lines of proprietary code to Linux and are creating their new programs in Linux."
"An irony of the migration of software to Linux is that Apple and Pixar became leading suppliers of Linux software. The most popular motion picture compositing software — Apple Shake (Linux in 2000) — and the most popular renderer — Pixar RenderMan (Linux in 1999) — are both sold by companies headed by Steve Jobs. Jobs hasn't made any pro-Linux statements regarding the future of his products (and recently Apple dropped the price of the Apple version of Shake so much that the Apple computer to run it seemed free). How the Mac/Linux equation will play out remains a concern for studios intent on controlling their destiny by staying with an open-source operating system rather than beholden to a proprietary third-party platform."
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