9 Oct
2003
9 Oct
'03
3:13 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:56:53 -0500, Reuben Martin wrote
Most of the major cg companies in London are now using linux in day to day
production. It's the main desktop OS for everybody except office staff.
This said, a lot (if not all) of the users (animators/modellers/r&d
programmers etc) come from a unix (SGI) background and arent scared of the odd
commandline task. :)
dave
I'm
probably showing off my inexperience here, but what about SGI? I
thought all the Silicon Graphics stuff had been ported to Linux and
Linux was becoming the OS of choice for Hollywood DM people who used
to rely on SGI because it's Unix-based, and all that. Is that not
true?
It is true that lots of the major pipelines, especially ones heavily
into CGI work, are turning to Linux systems. However, most or them
are the huge industry powerhouses (Pixar, Dreamworks etc) who have
their own in house software and developement. They are just simply
porting their software over to Linux. So even though they are
proving that Linux works as an excellent OS for media production,
very little of the apps they use are available to the public. And
of course they are willing to get their hands dirty... :o)