On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:51:48 -0500 jjbenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeremiah Benham) wrote: >On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:56:53AM -0500, Reuben Martin wrote: >> It is true that lots of the major pipelines, especially ones heavily into CGI >work, are turning to Linux systems. However, most or them are the huge industry >powerhouses (Pixar, Dreamworks etc) who have their own in house software and >developement. They are just simply porting their software over to Linux. So >even though they are proving that Linux works as an excellent OS for media >production, very little of the apps they use are available to the public. And >of course they are willing to get their hands dirty... :o) > >Both of these projects had links for purchase if you want to use what >the big boys use: > >Alias Wavefronts Maya is available for purchase: > >http://www.alias.com/eng/index.shtml > >I bet you could purchase Pixars Renderman to do your rendering also: >https://renderman.pixar.com/ http://www.linuxartist.org/3d.php ...Softimage, worldtoolkit, {now smoke}, etc, etc, etc... http://graphics-muse.com/