Linux Powers The Spiderwick Chronicles
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| A Linux-based production pipeline is a perfect choice for a major motion
| picture like The Spiderwick Chronicles, with its many goblins and magical
| creatures. Hollywood has been the realm of Linux since 1997, when the movie
| Titanic proved that Linux can do big computer graphics jobs like rendering a
| sinking ocean liner. With an industry tradition of using UNIX-based operating
| systems for high-computation jobs, and due to the better, faster, cheaper
| nature of Linux, every major effects or animation movie today is produced
| using Linux. Visual effects facilities ILM and Tippett Studio each created
| visual effects for Spiderwick. Having multiple effects houses work on the
| same movie became common after 2003 when The Matrix Reloaded used a dozen
| effects houses.
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http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1350000/1344214/9951.html?key1=1344214&key2=2488623021&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
Yesterday (Linux on NASA's PCs):
Fedora on the Final Frontier
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| There has been a long standing rumor regarding NASA running Fedora which all
| of us in the Fedora community have been always intrigued by. Is it true? What
| are they doing with it there? Why don't they run RHEL. Fortunately enough, a
| couple of weeks ago, I got to experience NASA behind the scenes, first hand,
| and hang out with the coolest members of the Fedora community, and find out
| the answer to these questions and lots more.
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http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2008/02/fedora-on-final-frontier.html
Related:
Open source on the big screen: Matt Ebb tells tales of Elephants Dream
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| Lead artist from Elephants Dream speaks about what it is like to make your
| own open movie using open source tools and the power of the community.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1111810628
fluffy puffy peach posters
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| well here i am again, and the characters are finally completed! as a peachy
| xmas holiday present we decided to publish some posters / wallpapers to
| decorate your desktop!
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http://peach.blender.org/index.php/fluffy-puffy-peach-posters/
Peach Open Movie
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| As a follow-up to the successful project Orange's "Elephants Dream",
| the Blender Foundation will initiate another open movie project.
| Again a couple of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender
| community will be invited to come together to work in Amsterdam on
| completing a short 3D animation movie.
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http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/2007-plans
Can open source methodology make a movie?
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| We all know that open source is being used to help make movies. Linux
| and open source software have been used in rendering farms for major
| pictures like Shrek, Lord of the Rings, and many others. Earlier
| this year the Blender project released Elephants Dream, the first
| movie made entirely with open source graphics software. But can
| the open source methodology be used to create a movie? The folks
| behind The Digital Tipping Point (DTP) are betting it can.
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/07/2014209&from=rss
Hollywood, Linux, and CinePaint at FOSDEM 2008
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| At first, studios had no choice but to develop Linux applications in house.
| The film industry has millions of lines of Linux code, both desktop
| applications and server pipelines. Studio Linux programmers write code in
| C++, Python, Perl, and Java. What does all this secret proprietary Linux code
| do? And, why do they do parallel programming with grid computing? How does
| the film industry use renderfarms with thousands of CPUs?
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http://linuxgazette.net/147/rowe.html
DreamWorks wins an award for its innovative use of Linux
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| Behind that effort sits Ed Leonard, chief technology officer at DreamWorks,
| who has been recognized for his work with an Annie Award for "promoting the
| Linux open system for animation in animation studios and gaming software
| development."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9865829-16.html
Linux Goes Hollywood With New Terra Soft Film Rendering Tool
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| Y-Film is a product formed from two separate applications. The first is a
| cluster construction suite supported by Terra Soft's Y-HPC platform. The
| second is the Artist Productivity and Asset Management Tools developed by
| Scott Frankel, president and VFX supervisor at Circle-S Studios and the lead
| developer of Y-Film. The tool set runs on x86 Linux, Power Linux and Mac OS
| X.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60254.html
Linux in Hollywood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636VZ_R-NVs
Studios Using Linux
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| * Digital Domain
| * Disney
| * Double Negative
| * DreamWorks Animation
| * Flash Film Works
| * Hammerhead
| * Industrial Light & Magic
| * Moving Picture Company
| * Pixar
| * Rhythm & Hues
| * Sony Pictures
| * Tippett
| * Weta Digital
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http://linuxmovies.org/studios.html
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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html
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