Gimp And Linux In Hollywood
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GIMP Origins
Birth 1995: senior project at UC Berkeley 1996: 0.54
No layers Supported plugins Based on Motif
Me: The Sparkle plugin
Childhood 0.60: GIMP begot GTK+
Peter fed up with Motif limitations GTK+ begot GNOME GNOME begot the desktop Miguel de Icaza went nuts and now we're cursed with
Mono
Teenager Feb 97: 0.99 Me: Oct 97: GIMP in Linux Journal Jun 98: 1.0 Me: Dec 98: The Artist's Guide to the GIMP Nearly 6 years to get to 1.0
Desktop already thriving in many ways Painful lessons ahead
The Visual Effects Society
1998: Film-GIMP Rythm and Hues
Visual Effects company Run by head of Visual Effects Society Paid GIMP developers for deep paint support
16bit and 32bit channels
HOLLYWOOD branch of CVS Never merged with mainline GEGL was better choice
2002: Cinepaint Robin Rowe
Resurrected HOLLYWOOD branch Changed name to Cinepaint Supported by industry
Robin is in Hollywood Visual Effects members can meet about the product
2008: GEGL in GIMP 10 years after 1.0: Finally, work starts on
merging GEGL in GIMP Expected for 2.6 release (2.5.x are developer
releases) GEGL: Generic Graphics Library
graph based image processing framework supports deep paint (16, 32bit color channels) Multiple color models/spaces (re: CMYK, etc.) Text rendering improvements Layer effects
Linux in Hollywood
1998: Titanic Rendering vs Modeling Pipelines
Modeling: Maya, Houdini or (these days) Blender Rendering: RenderMan (Pixar)
1st use: Digital Domain's Titanic render farm Darryl Strauss, Linux Helps Bring Titanic to Life
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2494 Artist's work on SGI's or NTs Rendering on Linux: DEC Alphas
1999: Houdini Port Me, Houdini: Magic doesn't just happen
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2494 Driven by Visual Effects Industry needs Chicken and egg problem
No graphics drivers because no apps need them No apps because no sufficient graphics drivers
Side Effects Software pushed the envelope
2001: Linux goes to the Movies
Me, Salon.com http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/01/linux_hollywood/index.html
Visual Effects Industry Dreamworks, Pixar, Digital Domain, Silicon Grail
1999: Dreamworks decides to migrate completely to Linux – Shrek! is first production
An Industry Migration
VESTECH 2000: Linux Summit Disposable computing
2 year cycle for animations Replace renderfarm with each production
Existing options SGI dying Windows: not enough focus on enterprise issues
Existing expertise was Unix based
A Lesson For All
Lessons from the Visual Effects Industry Share information Open Source “wrong behaviours” are not easily
forgiven The end users are in charge.
