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Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar Go Linux
robinsrowe writes "Most of the major studios use Linux -- such as DreamWorks with more than 1,500 Linux desktops and 3,500 Linux servers. The MovieEditor Conference is an all-day event on computer-based filmmaking in downtown Los Angeles on August 3rd. Studio technology chiefs and other experts discuss ongoing work using Linux in feature animation and visual effects. Presented in collaboration with LinuxMovies.org."
Pixar should invest in a Blue Gene. Secondly for some time now Pixar had there software running on linux x86 clusters. Before that they had some solution from Sun. Anyway but it looks like Linux is being pushed into the work horse area of the movie world. The only two movies that I know that are based on Linux are Toy Stories and Madagascar. They all have penguins and are big budget cartoons.
It'll be a laugh riot wont it?
Once SCO's charges are proven, and Linux is declared a "Copyright circumvention device" by His Majesty George W. Bush, the movie distributors will end up suing Disney and Pixar for using Linux!
The distributors will be busy suing the movie makers, and the falling sales figures will continue to be blamed on Linux and the piracy it's Communist ideals encourage. All the while, Disney will come out with "Herbie goes Bananas about Being Fully Reloaded for the Next Generation" and sue a 12 year old for making the movie available for download off Kazaa thus causing it to tank at the box office!
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
There is a difference between using Linux and switching to Linux...
And I wouldn't expect a conference entitled Linux Movies Conference 2005 talking about something else than Linux, and it does, they talk about osX. Plus what software do they use to edit on Linux? none, no professionnal software as of now exist on Linux for moviemaking, they use Linux as an OS to drive render farms, which we all know it could do, hardly a statement about the omnipresence of Linux in moviemaking, it doesn't mean people are switching to Linux it just means the conference organisers managed to find people using it in the movie industry.
This events look more like a pep talk for Linux devellopers than anything else, the conclusion they draw only in the program are at most ridiculous:
Many have suggested that BSD-based Mac OS X will play a larger role in studios because of its compatibility with Linux
common! MacoSX is already in every studio and is widely used, Linux is absent except in files distribution, content servers and render farms, Linux will be used because it's compatible with osX not the other way around. BTW I work in studio and I did postproduction...
No one in the movie industry uses Linux to make movies, they use it like they use a hammer, its a tool to get some related task done... And even the conference program lay this down pretty clearly...