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Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux
Ex-MislTech writes "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated movie from DreamWorks Animation Technology that hits theaters July 2, is the first Hollywood production created entirely on Linux. More than 250 Hewlett-Packard workstations running Red Hat Linux make up the core of DreamWorks' graphics platform."
"The biggest problems were the women and the water."
Isn't that the problem that most men have to deal with anyway?
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"And may your days be long upon the earth."
Strange, being a Linux user women are my biggest problem too.
Look at these:
Pixar moves to Linux from SGI
Pixar switches from Sun to Linux
I find it highly amusing that the only place I could find clips for this new movie was on WindowsMedia.com!
"Created using Linux, advertised by Microsoft."
Actually, most of the workstations of the animators are linux.
:(
The animation director's is a dual 2ghz xeon running limux. He told me so. He also told me they'd be changing in a few years, but wouldn't tell me what to
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
That makes about as much sense as putting a screen door on a submarine.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
More proof that Linux users are a bunch of pirates
Karma: Chameleon (mostly affected when you come and go, you come and go)
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc
version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/bugreports.html
and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide
this information when reporting a possible bug.
(and, yes, that was a joke, folks...)
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
In other news:
"Making coffee proved a very difficult task for my Ford Explorer."
...that "an entire Hollywood production was created on Linux", at least according to this
Hey, it's even the same company.
A few years ago I replaced an SGI cluster with a Linux cluster. Due to the reduced cost of hardware and software (they even bought from VA Lin^H^H^HSoftware), they paid less to purchase the Linux cluster than the yearly lease fee of the SGI cluster.
And the Linux cluster had at least twice (probably 3-4x) the performance.
Each 'strand' is one curving segment of hair that can be manipulated and curved to a great degree. Compare to typical japanese-animated hair, which has only two segements, the front hair that covers the character's face, and the back that appears behind their face. Yeah, I know it sounds like they only have 16 hairs, but it looks quite a bit better than that. Check out this character picture for a clearer idea of what each 'strand' really is:
w w.wired.com/news/images/full/sinbad_b800_f.jpg
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091437/w
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
And you have to ask yourselves, does anyone need more proof that Linux is as capable as any other operating platform out there?
No. I sure don't. In fact, we've been getting beaten over the head with this for a few years now.
Linux used by company X! It'll be taken seriously now! Wohooo...that was in like 2000.
Now, for whatever reason, geeks have this frigging complex that their operating system needs to have some sort of global warm fuzzy. This ain't all hollywood people. This isn't Sally Fields gushing about how we like her (we really like her!). Folks, use what you like, influence (if you must) who you can and just move on.
LET...IT....GO.
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Well, you've never been married.
Or maybe you have...no paycheck, AND no sex!
And you have to ask yourselves, does anyone need more proof that Linux is as capable as any other operating platform out there?
About 95% of the world's computer users.
Since when has a Linux user honestly given a cr*p what anyone else thinks?
As long as I can remember. I'm not saying it's bad, but linux users are just as fanatical as Mac users. Almost any negative commentary about linux is met with a slew of rebuttals.
If linux users are really independent of popular opinion, why is it that every high profile article stating that maybe linux isn't all it's cracked up to be generates several hundred comments on slashdot?
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I wonder if Dreamworks will ever come up with some original concepts for their animated films.
A Bug's Life/Antz (Obvious.)
The Emperor's New Groove/Road to El Dorado (These were much closer originally, but changed quite drastically after rewrites on both sides).
Monster's Inc./Shrek (This is quite a stretch, but hey, green monsters star in both, heh.)
Treasure Planet/Sinbad (Hardy har har!)
Finding Nemo/Sharkslayer (Something smells fishy here.)
Obviously these movies aren't all complete ripoffs by any stretch of the imagination, but it is quite interesting that Dreamworks/PDI movies that closely follow the release of Disney/Pixar ones have similiar basic ideas behind them.
Most TV producers are not computer scientists and don't see the irony and/or don't care.
Can you imagine how awful TV would be if it WERE produced by computer scientists?
Channel 45: The Slashdot channel! Geeks rant and rave about Microsoft, SCO, and RIAA! Then they geek out over Linux, *BSD (which they always seem to point is dying), and Mac OS X!!!
Channel 52: The Microsoft Channel! Bill Gates discusses his plans for world domination!
Channel 54: The Linux channel! Kernel hacker Alan Cox takes you line-by-line through the Linux source code!
Channel 58: The Apple Channel! Steve Jobs demonsrates his famous "Reality Distortion Field" and exaggerates a lot about Apple's latest G5 computers!
Channel 62: The FSF Channel! RMS talks about how Channel 54 should be called the GNU/Linux channel!
Channel 69: The SCO Channel! *** programming unavailable ***
My journal has hot
In this slashdot article it claims that Spirit was the first movie to be created in a 100% linux environment (in April 2002). How can this Sinbad movie be the first one if Spirit was... Over a year ago. Am I missing something here or is this just another PR attempt?
What does a multi-million dollar installation in the entertainment industry do to help Linux?
It means another customer for content production applications on Linux, to help ensure that these applications will continue to be produced
It means another support contract for Red Hat or whoever is going to be supporting the render farm
It means another job for a Linux sysadmin
It means more customers making sure that whatever hardware/software they buy works on Linux
It means more publicity for your favorite OS
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy
I work in one of Europe's largest post production houses, and we've moved most things over to Linux now. However, we still need Windows to run Adobe Photoshop, as there's still nothing suitable yet in Linux. The GIMP just doesn't cut it, and I'm sure it's the same with them.
Sure, the modelling, animation and rendering were probably all done on Linux, but it's probably not correct to say that it was done exclusively on Linux. I bet there were a bunch of Windows or Macs with Photoshop on them being used there, and unless they did all their compositing on Shake, they'll have probably used some dedicated compositing systems.
Linux works quite well in visual effects, largely because all those who grew up using IRIX workstations find it quite familiar. The pipelining and scripting stuff is easier than it is in NT/2000/XP. However, it's worth noting that the vast majority of the actual graphics software we use is still commercial/proprietary - there's not much in the way of Open Source stuff out there of a sufficiently high quality. The notable exception to this is 'Liquid' a maya->Renderman convertor, and to a lesser extent FilmGimp - useful because there's not much else that will edit High Dynamic Range images, but less useful because it still appears to be rather unstable...
It was created using various applications. Those applications could have been running on FreeBSD, OS X...it doesn't really matter all that much. In fact all of these applications can already be recompiled to run on OS X or whatever. That the name of the kernel providing virtual memory, process switching, device drivers, and some low-level services is "Linux" in this case, well, that's something that really only matters if you're a hardcore geek.
I don't mean this as a flame at all. It's just that this story is misguided advocacy. Generic putdowns of "Windows" are equally as meaningless. People don't use an operating system. People use applications. Being fixated on operating systems is like being fixated on tires instead of cars.
Channel 54: The Linux channel! Kernel hacker Alan Cox takes you line-by-line through the Linux source code!
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Hot Damn! I would LOVE to see that
Finkployd
Well, Pixar president Ed Catmull said at WWDC last week that the dual 2 GHz G5 Power Mac was the fastest desktop computer for RenderMan.
In addition, Final Cut Pro only runs on Mac, Apple sells Shake for $5000 on Mac OS X and $10000 on Linux and other platforms, 25% Maya sales go to Mac OS X. It looks that Mac OS X on G5 is a far better 3D and video solution than Linux, particularly now that the dual G5 Power Mac is cheaper than the dual Xeon Dell.