| Disney Shifting to Linux for Film Animation [NYTimes] |
Jun. 18, 2002
Steve Lohr features the growing use of Linux in movie production studios for the New York Times. Lohr reports that Disney will be using Hewlett-Packard's Linux-based workstations and servers as components in its next-generation digital animation productions. Disney joins a growing list of high profile movie studios that are embracing open source Linux. Lohr writes . . .
"The Walt Disney Company, the doyen of animation studios, is joining Hollywood's embrace of a technological upstart — the GNU Linux operating system . . . "
" . . . The Disney move is the latest commitment by major studios and special-effects houses — including DreamWorks SKG, Pixar Animation Studios, Industrial Light and Magic and Digital Domain — to Linux . . . "
" . . . Movie animation is a rarefied niche market for computer technology. The studios have deep pockets, legions of technical experts and plenty of financial incentive to get just the right look and detail in movies like "Shrek" and "Monsters Inc.," since the payoff for a box-office hit can be enormous . . . "
" . . . the advance of Linux into Hollywood is a sign that a technology once viewed as part of the counterculture of computing is moving steadily into the mainstream . . . "
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