Open Source in Use/Film Industry
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From http://www.linuxmovies.org/index.html Robin Rowe
In the film industry, Linux has won. It's running on practically all servers and desktops used for feature animation and visual effects. LinuxMovies.org met monthly in Hollywood for years, but now rarely meets.
Linux is used to create practically every blockbuster movie in theaters today, movies produced by Disney/Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Sony, ILM, and other studios.
Linux is the most popular operating system for big budget feature film animation and visual effects, with more than 95% of the servers and desktops at large animation and visual effects companies. People outside the film industry, and even inside the industry sometimes, don't realize that Linux is so big at large studios. Linux is the norm in Hollywood and considered the state-of-the-art. In this upside-down world where Windows and Mac are minority operating systems, Linux evangelists would be hard-pressed to find anyone left to convert. The free operating system built by the people for the people has been embraced foremost by film studios.
Links
- Robin Rowe and Gabrielle Pantera presentation at FOSDEM 2008 on February 23rd in Brussels.
- http://www.linuxmovies.org/index.html
- http://studio-linux.org/studios/index.html
- http://www.cinepaint.org/
- http://blogs.computerworld.com/if_its_animation_or_special_effects_its_linux
- http://blogs.computerworld.com/pixars_rendering_software_big_on_linux_servers_not_mac
- Animal Logic
- The Matrix Trilogy
- House of Flying Daggers
- Happy Feet http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1653823406;fp;4;fpid;1968336438
- IBM Blade Center: http://www-07.ibm.com/systems/in/bladecenter/facts/animal_logic.html
- http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,14315,srn,4,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
Studios Using Linux Farms
From: http://www.linuxmovies.org/studios.html
- 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
Movies made with Linux
From: http://www.linuxmovies.org/studios.html
- Dantes Peak [2/7/97] D2
- Titanic [12/19/97] D2
- Stuart Little [12/17/99] R&H
- Little Nicky [11/10/00] R&H
- Grinch [11/17/00] R&H
- Sixth Day [11/17/00] R&H
- Enemy at the Gates [3/16/01] Double Negative (England)
- Cats & Dogs [4/4/01] R&H
- Shrek [5/16/01] Dreamworks
- Fast & the Furious [6/22/01] Hammerhead
- Dr. Dolittle 2 [6/22/01] R&H
- Final Fantasy [7/11/01] Square (ceased operations)
- Planet of the Apes [7/27/01] R&H
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin [9/17/01] Double Negative
- Harry Potter [11/16/01] R&H
- Lord of the Rings 1 [12/19/01] Weta
- Collateral Damage [2/8/02] Flash Film Works
- Blade II [3/22/02] Tippett
- Death to Smoochy [3/29/02] Flash Film Works
- Star Wars E2 [5/16/02] ILM
- Spirit [5/24/02] Dreamworks
- Scooby-Doo [6/14/01] Rhythm & Hues
- Haunted Lighthouse (IMAX) [summer 2002 Busch Gardens] Island Fever
- Men In Black 2 [7/3/02] Tippett (limited Linux, chase scene through Manhattan)
- XXX [8/9/2002] D2
- Pluto Nash [8/16/02] Flash Film Works
- Blue Crush [8/16/02] Hammerhead
- Below [Q3 02] Double Negative
- Santa Clause 2 [11/1/02] Tippett
- Harry Potter 2 [11/15/02] (not confirmed this is Linux)
- Star Trek Nemesis [12/13/02] D2
- Lord of the Rings 2 [12/25/02] Weta (New Zealand)
Most big animation and effects movies since 2002 are Linux-based.
