On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM, shreekant bohra skbohra123@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I always come across discussion about gnu/linux not being good for design and animation, here is some eye opener . Dreamworks, the worlds largest movie production house uses gnu/linux more than anything else. Check out
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9653 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803
While your point is valid, the usage scenario of rendering/animation for movies is quite different from the usual DTP shops and the gimp/inkscape/photoshop debates. The former is a very specialist domain, where budgets are much larger due to which they tend to have their own in-house animation apps and in some cases, even drivers. The kernel is powerful, fast and clean enough to handle whatever is thrown at it. Add to it, the kernel can be modified to suit their needs perfectly. This is why FOSS is such a brilliant alternative for them.
When people complain of FOSS alternatives not being good for multimedia, they generally talk about the small studio and dtp alternatives, where their budget is only enough to acquire these application and use, not modify them to suit their needs. Either their budgets are not big enough for it or they simply _don't_ want to get into those details. So they might use gimp and/or audacity, but will not pitch in to improve it if there is a feature missing due to the above constraints. They will drop it and move on.
So the statement gnu/linux not being good for design is very subjective and has to be put into context. In the latter context it is probably true to an extent, since there are no big spenders using (and hence contributing to) it.