Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:19:39 -0800 (PST) From: Rick K <biojavachicago@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? Message-ID: <20020331191939.93845.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <001001c1d8b2$98e187a0$93611f41@none>
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--- Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> wrote: > Subject: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry?? > > Hi, > > I have read on the Internet that FreeBSD is > used in making the effects > > of the movie, The Matrix. Is that true? > > > > Are there any movies whose effects are made > using freebsd?? > > If so,does that mean that an ordinary PC can also > produce such effects if > > the PC is running freebsd and the apporopiate > hard/software? > > As far as I know, IRIX was used and is used to make > most of the SGI for > games and movies. Because IRIX is a part of SGI's > supercomputers, it is > directly used. > > Later I think FreeBSD was used for "The Matrix", although for a long time IRIX was THE system used. "Phantom Menace", "Perfect Storm", "XMen", and "Gladiator" are a few recent movies that used IRIX. Linux is starting to replace IRIX. I think "Shrek" was done with Linux. "Lord of the Rings" was done on SGI hardware running Red Hat Linux. I've read that LucasFilm is going to Linux too. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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