[ale] SCO article (sorry)

[dhurst at kennesaw.edu (Dow Hurst)]

On this note if you haven't looked at blender for your own fun you ought 
too.  You can create your own animated movie!
Would be great to get a kid setup with it for a school project or just a 
hobby.
Dow


Preston Boyington wrote:

> <snipped>
>
> >Since Hollywood is saving money on the computer part...
>
> Check out the latest LinuxUser & Developer magazine.  Their cover 
> feature "Lights, camera, Linux!" talks about the movie industry and 
> their move to Linux and open source products for film making.  
> Dreamworks combines HP computers, Red Hat Linux, and software such as 
> Cinepaint (Film Gimp), Maya, Lightwave 3d, and Side Effects Houdini to 
> create the bulk of the films we see currently.
>
> A couple of interesting quotes from the article are:
>
> "Dreamworks considered all the options and balanced the alternatives 
> of going with Windows, Linux, or BSD" (they went with Linux)
>
> and
>
> "The $5,000 Linux workstation was running circles around the $35,000 
> machine"
>
> Although not mentioned in this article (think it was in Linux 
> Journal), the Hulk used a beowulf cluster to render (with Renderman) 
> the CGI effects.  Star Wars III will use twice the power to bring 
> George Lucas's vision to the screen.
>
> The LU&D issue also comes with a three disk binary version of Red Hat 9.
>
> now if we could just see Tux on the screen at the end of the credits...
>
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