| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
CIO
November 15, 2001
Meridith Levinson |
Nixed for Linux The master of illusion in the entertainment industry, Industrial Light & Magic -- George Lucas's visual effects and 3-D animation studio -- is undergoing its own metamorphosis and sloughing off longtime partner SGI in the process...   |
Linux Journal
August 2001
Robin Rowe |
DreamWorks Feature Linux and Animation The process and benefits of making animated movies with Linux... |
Linux Journal
January 1, 2003
Robin Rowe |
Linux and Star Trek Digital Domain talks about using Linux to render special effects in Star Trek Nemesis and other films. |
Linux Journal
June 5, 2007
Robin Rowe |
DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre DreamWorks Animation pushes the limits of CG filmmaking with Linux. |
Linux Journal
February 28, 2002
Michael J. Hammel |
Industry of Change: Linux Storms Hollywood The visual effects industry is struggling to shake the bondage of single-vendor solutions and high-priced specialized hardware. It's also an industry that tested the waters of Windows and found it flowing in the wrong direction. Enter Linux, in a big way... |
Salon.com
November 1, 2001
Michael J. Hammel |
Linux goes to the movies Who says free software is passe? Hollywood's special-effects industry can't get enough of the operating system built by hackers, for hackers... |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Michael Sragow |
Building the perfect catastrophe A special-effects wizard for "The Perfect Storm" talks about crafting virtual victims (and heroes) and the evolution of computer graphics, from morphing to "The Matrix." |
Linux Journal
February 2001
Robin Rowe |
Linux as a Video Desktop Rowe introduces a new article series on developing Linux multimedia applications from scratch... |
Fast Company
April 2004
Scott Kirsner |
Poof! Movie Magic On location with three cinema-tech all-stars, just in time for this summer's blockbusters. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Tom Russo |
Movies 2.0: Digital Effects Magic Explained In today's digital Hollywood, cameras capture scenes in bits, not frames and computer wizards conjure up everything from impossible beasts to cliff-top battlegrounds. Film is dead. Long live the movies. |
Wired
February 2005
Anne Thompson |
F/X Gods The 10 visual effects wizards who rule Hollywood |
InternetNews
May 7, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Open Source 'Blending' Into Animation A new 3D graphics platform is set to take on the animation industry as well as rivals Maya, SoftImage, and Houdini. |
Linux Journal
June 1, 2002
Thad J. Beier |
Product Review: Hewlett-Packard x4000 Workstation We tested this x4000 as an artist workstation as well as a batch renderer... |
Wired
May 2005
Jessie Scanlon |
The New Heart of the Empire Lucas built his 850,000-square-foot, $350 million gaming/film effects facility the same way he makes a movie - with a sweeping vision, an obsessive eye for detail, and a geek's reliance on computers. |
Macworld
January 31, 2007
Sean Wagstaff |
Maya Complete 8.5 This is a powerful, 3-D modeling, texturing, and rendering application, with all of the tools needed to do nearly every type of animation imaginable, from simulations of real-world physics to character animation with a wide spectrum of emotive expressions. |
Popular Mechanics
July 15, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Inside the New Harry Potter Movie's VFX Tech In the newest film, ingenious special technical effects were created for the Millennium Bridge collapse sequence and the Inferi creatures. |
Wired
June 2002
Lawrence Weschler |
Why Is This Man Smiling? Digital animators are closing in on the complex system that makes a face come alive... |
PC World
May 1, 2000
Matthew Newton |
Is Linux Right for You? We put Linux on a test PC, and in eight weeks it never crashed. But are you any closer to ditching Windows than you were six months ago? Here's what you need to know before you decide. |
Wired
October 2001
Russ Mitchell |
Open War It started as a crusade for free source code. Linux zealots turned it into a full-frontal assault on Microsoft. Now the battle for the desktop could snatch defeat from the jaws of moral victory... |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Judith N. Mottl |
Learning to Love Linux Hungry for computing power, life science companies are turning toward Linux clusters as the preferred high performance solution. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2011
Susan Karlin |
Masi Oka: Acting Like a Nerd The graphics programmer and "Hawaii Five-0" actor channels his inner geek |
CIO
January 1, 2002
Scott Berinato |
How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop A handy 12-step program for switching to Linux. |
Linux Journal
November 16, 2001 |
Editors' Choice Awards After much deliberation, here are our choices for 2001... |
Bank Technology News
August 2003
Michael Sisk |
Linux Woos Wall St. The operating system's surprising popularity has turned the Linux revolution into a day at the beach. With firms such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs becoming recent converts, it's clear that what began as a hobby has now become a full-fledged measure of technology adoption savvy. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
Virtual Stars Boffo in Tinseltown A new breed of actor is taking a star turn in Hollywood. They don't hide out in their trailers, check into rehab in the middle of a shoot or sleep with their costars. They do their own stunts, can shoot take upon take and don't require residuals. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2011
Anders Bylund |
George Lucas Wants Disney's Core Customers How many sheriffs can you fit into Hollywood's Toontown? |
Macworld
January 2002
Sean Wagstaff |
Maya for Mac OS X 3.5 Long-awaited 3-D suite hampered by OS-compatibility issues... |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 13, 2003 |
Open Source: Closing, Closing... It might look like the battle of David and Goliath, but in the case of the SCO Group vs. IBM, not too many people are rooting for David. |
Linux Journal
January 15, 2003
Steve Neuner |
Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System With 64 processors and 512GB of memory, SGI claims the title of world's most powerful Linux system. |
Linux Journal
August 1, 2002 |
Linux Timeline 100 of the most significant events in Linux history. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Linux: It's Growing More Popular, But Can It Do Windows? Can Linux gain market share on the desktop? |
InternetNews
December 3, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Tom Hanrahan, Linux Engineering, OSDL What do enterprise Linux, ISVs and herding cats have in common? OSDL's new Linux exec explains how they all come together and how it will make Linux even better than it is today. |
Linux Journal
May 1, 2002
Don Marti & Richard Vernon |
Interview with Ted Ts'o Ted discusses his work on the Linux kernel, Linux International, Linux Standard Base and other areas of the Open Source community... |
Linux Journal
February 1, 2003
Michael Surran |
Linux from Kindergarten to High School Moving the school computer lab to Linux was not an easy decision to make -- but it was a beneficial one. |
InternetNews
April 19, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
SCO Loses in China as Linux Gains The Linux market in China continues to grow, according to a new research report from IDC. And it is apparently growing partially at the expense of Linux nemesis SCO. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Hugh Hart |
Quest for Fire: Look for Searing FX on the Next Harry Potter Movie studios spend billions to morph strings of code into giant robots, flying superheroes, and apocalyptic mushroom clouds. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 7, 2005
Ivan Schneider |
Win, Place or Show? The influence of Linux has created new choices in the marketplace, resulting in an unparalleled opportunity for banks to develop ground-breaking technology architectures, whether or not they eventually adopt the new operating system. |
Linux Journal
March 2000
Randy Jay Yarger |
LUIGUI--Linux/UNIX Independent Group for Usability Information A new Linux group has been organized to look at user interfaces and help formulate a standard in an effort to ease the way for Linux to move onto the desktop. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2003
Michael Surran |
Making the Switch to Open Source Software While it has been a bumpy road, our switch to open source software has shown itself to be the perfect solution to a problem that more and more school systems find themselves facing. |
PC World
November 2002
Scott Spanbauer |
Linux vs. Windows: The Rematch Can a frustrated Windows user dump Microsoft? Even with lots of improvements, Linux is still no cakewalk. |
InternetNews
February 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
OSDL Tackles Desktop Linux The organization's working group comes out with a list of requirements to make desktop Linux successful and is looking for feedback. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2002
Doug Bartholomew |
The Attack Of The Giant Penguins Linux makes inroads among manufacturers. |
InternetNews
April 15, 2004
Clint Boulton |
SGI Sheds Graphics Software Business Server company, looking for market share in the burgeoning Linux space, unloads high end graphics software unit. |
InternetNews
April 12, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Motorola Takes Linux to Mobile Task Motorola is now positioning Linux to be its default platform for innovation. |
InternetNews
October 11, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
In Focus: GPL and What You Need to Know A Free and Open Source Software primer to help you make sense of open source and the General Public License in a hurry. |
Inc.
June 15, 2000
Dan Orzech |
Bidding on Linux The Linux operating system is hot. It's cheap. And it works. But can you run your company on it? |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2000
Michael Cowpland |
Linux in Education Even those with a remote connection to the computer world will likely have heard of something called Linux. The value and application of the technology is being hotly debated among computer developers and industry insiders.... |
Macworld
December 2004
Sean Wagstaff |
Maya Complete 6 This isn't a radical upgrade. But for people who need an all-purpose visual-effects app, Maya Complete 6 packs a bunch of new features and improved usability, and it's still less expensive than most of its competitors. |
InternetNews
August 31, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Report: Linux Won't Wipe Out UNIX or Windows Yankee Group drills into the reasons behind the growth of Linux. They may not be what you'd expect. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2004
Michael Kerner |
'Asianux' Sets Sights on Asian Linux Market Japan-based Miracle Linux is teaming up with China's Red Flag to form a Linux development environment called 'Asianux' that has far reaching implications for the open-source operating system in both Japan and China. |
