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Film Gimp Continues Hollywood Takeover
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February 16, 2003 (8:00:00 AM)
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- By Robin.Rowe -
Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in making feature films. Film Gimp, a sophisticated image retouching program designed to manipulate high dynamic range 35mm film images, is a collaborative open source project that branched from GIMP in 1998. After years behind the scenes in Hollywood, Film Gimp had its public launch on SourceForge on July 4, 2002.
Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in making feature films. Film Gimp, a sophisticated image retouching program designed to manipulate high dynamic range 35mm film images, is a collaborative open source project that branched from GIMP in 1998. After years behind the scenes in Hollywood, Film Gimp had its public launch on SourceForge on July 4, 2002.
ComputerCafe, based in Santa Maria, California, is best known
for creating elaborate photorealistic 3D sequences for Spy
Kids 2, including attacking skeletons, a miniature menagerie,
and mutant animals. The studio created special effects for Panic
Room, Hulk, Imposter, The One, Armageddon, Flubber, and Battlefield
Earth. ComputerCafe is using Film Gimp in current feature
film productions.
Film Gimp is in use at three studios besides ComputerCafe.
At Rhythm & Hues it was
used in Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle
2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, and Planet
of the Apes. Hammerhead
Productions used it for Showtime and Blue Crush,
and is using it for The Fast and the Furious II. Sony
Pictures Imageworks used Film Gimp for Stuart Little II.
Although not in movie production yet, developers at DreamWorks
and ILM are contributing to
the Film Gimp code. ILM recently made open source its OpenEXR
code, the studio's wavelet compression image file format for high
dynamic range images. Film Gimp was one of the first external
applications to support OpenEXR, thanks to a Film Gimp plug-in
developed at ILM.
In Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 18th, a distinguished
panel discusses the past and future of Film Gimp at the Linux
Movies conference track during Creative
Cow West in Los Angeles. This is the first time an open source
project has figured so prominently at a motion picture industry
event. The all-day Linux Movies track features speakers from motion
picture studios describing the
state-of-the-art in Linux motion picture technology. The Film
Gimp panel includes Ray Feeney, winner of four Academy Awards
for Scientific and Engineering Achievement, president of RFX,
and founder of the Film Gimp project in 1998; Caroline Dahllöf,
a programmer at Rhythm & Hues and a founding developer of
Film Gimp; Sam Richards, a CG supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks
and release manager of Film Gimp; Thad Beier, effects supervisor
at Hammerhead Productions and a user of Film Gimp; and Robin Rowe,
a partner at MovieEditor.com and project leader of Film Gimp on
SourceForge. The all-day Linux Movies track costs $100. Immediately
following the event at the Westin LAX there is a free open meeting
of the Linux Movies Group.
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Works in Opera just fine...
Shows they're not OSS evangelists (you know, the kids who have Stallman posters on their walls) - and that they're not using FilmGimp because it's only the best OSS knockoff of commercial software they could find. The fact that they use their tools regardless of developer or platform lends a whole lot of credence to their choice to use FilmGimp. This helps show that a lot more, and better, artistic suites are now being developed for linux than for MS.
I've been using it for years for drawing images and inking comics etc., and I must say it's one of the best programs Linux has. Gimp is the main reasion I don't switch to Windows; Wingimp is faulty and unstable.
If I switched to Windows than I would need to buy a new evrsion of Corel Draw or Photoshop.. And I would need to upgrade to WindowsXP is get the features I use most in Linux. If I could affford Corel Draw and WindowsXP, I would just buy a Mac.
Gimp is one of the best examples of open source engineering around.
Side note; Battlefield Earth has religious significance to the Scientologist.
If I switched to Windows than I would need to buy a new evrsion of Corel Draw or Photoshop.. And I would need to upgrade to WindowsXP is get the features I use most in Linux. If I could affford Corel Draw and WindowsXP, I would just buy a Mac.
Gimp is one of the best examples of open source engineering around.
Side note; Battlefield Earth has religious significance to the Scientologist.
Note that the Gimp Toolkit, a widget set of menus scrollbars, textboxes, radiobuttons, etc. Was originally the gtk, later to be used by the gnome project and renamed to the gnome toolkit.
Gimp helped Gnome get a jumpstart.
Gimp helped Gnome get a jumpstart.
Yeah, Gtk was originally made for Gimp, so you could say the whole Linux desktop is in part based on Gimp.
Unless you use KDE, like I do.
The program's importance to Linux, Hurd and the BSDs extends far beyond image editing and creation.
Unless you use KDE, like I do.
The program's importance to Linux, Hurd and the BSDs extends far beyond image editing and creation.
Sorry for being pedantic, but the article is about Film Gimp not Gimp. They aren't the same beastie. Film Gimp is a child of Gimp, used for, er, Films. You know, those moving pictures?
All that being said, however, I certainly agree that Gimp rocks. I just put some digital art up on my site, and folks keep asking me if I used Photoshop for it. (grin) Nup. Gimp all the way.
All that being said, however, I certainly agree that Gimp rocks. I just put some digital art up on my site, and folks keep asking me if I used Photoshop for it. (grin) Nup. Gimp all the way.
GIMP has one fatal flaw in taking over the world - really good RGB to CMYK for publishing. The paper publishing world DEMANDS CMYK, and Photoshop supports this, and conversion from RGB to CMYK, properly.
The next generation GIMP is working on it, but until it is done, GIMP will continue to lack the one essential feature needed for all publishing - conversion to CMYK for printing publication. I do all my work in GIMP, but when I finish for publication, I have to use ADOBE software to make it CMYK properly.
The next generation GIMP is working on it, but until it is done, GIMP will continue to lack the one essential feature needed for all publishing - conversion to CMYK for printing publication. I do all my work in GIMP, but when I finish for publication, I have to use ADOBE software to make it CMYK properly.
Maybe if Adobe didn't have a patent on CMYK, the GIMP coders would have implemented it years ago?
i hope you have an icc profile for that printer
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 20, 2003 02:35 PM
otherwise your better off sending them in rgb and letting them do the color separations. the only danger in working in rgb is going out of gamut, which if you know your range, a simple script can check (but then youd need to know those ranges, and were back to profiles)
Hmmmm<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... yet another example of the boring stupidity of 99% of linux users. THE WINDOWS VERSUS LINUX ARGUMENT IS DEAD. NO ONE FUCKING CARES ABOUT YOUR OPINION ON WINDOWS ESPECIALLY WHEN THE ARTIClE iS aBoUt a 'NiX sPeCiFiC PiEcE oF sOfTwArE.
I like making icons for KDE in it, and its good for KDE styles, and wallpapers too. I even like it better than Photoshop.
The best part is, despite any of it's flaws, the price is right<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;D
BLASPHEMY!
You can't use a GTK program to make icons for KDE!
If you are gonna contribute anything to KDE, it has to be done 100% in KDE. The other mismatch is confusing for the end costumer, who has to choose between KDE and Gnome.
You can't use a GTK program to make icons for KDE!
If you are gonna contribute anything to KDE, it has to be done 100% in KDE. The other mismatch is confusing for the end costumer, who has to choose between KDE and Gnome.
:-)
The trouble is that despite The GIMP's aging and bizarre user interface (at least in the 1.2 series), there's nothing as capable shipped with most KDE distributions.
The trouble is that despite The GIMP's aging and bizarre user interface (at least in the 1.2 series), there's nothing as capable shipped with most KDE distributions.
The GIMP gui is great!
Really? Why not? The GIMP is confusing, since people have to choose between KDE and GNOME. Think about it man! Why pick the GIMP while KDE and GNOME are both in use? This confuses the user. You have to admit that GTK is the base of GNOME, not the other way around. So logically, the GIMP and KDE are both derivatives, in a sense that GNOME is not.
It follows that GTK, GNOME and KDE, are rooted in the same way. This is why it is inherently unwise and insecure to have both together. The problem is one of how each is rooted. This should be clear to anybody with any experience using both. So think about it and stick with either but not any other one. You may have been lucky so far, but everyones luck runs out. The main, but simple technique of rooting the too could get to you, and your data. Then of course there is the issue of derivation. This could be a problem vis a vis QT and the GPL.
It follows that GTK, GNOME and KDE, are rooted in the same way. This is why it is inherently unwise and insecure to have both together. The problem is one of how each is rooted. This should be clear to anybody with any experience using both. So think about it and stick with either but not any other one. You may have been lucky so far, but everyones luck runs out. The main, but simple technique of rooting the too could get to you, and your data. Then of course there is the issue of derivation. This could be a problem vis a vis QT and the GPL.
Good Stuff...
As the film industry adopts open source software, running on Linux platforms of course, They are going to need more and more Linux experts to keep their systems top notch...
Does this mean I still have a chance at working in the film industry?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
As the film industry adopts open source software, running on Linux platforms of course, They are going to need more and more Linux experts to keep their systems top notch...
Does this mean I still have a chance at working in the film industry?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
Its is an interesting twist that the same industry bans playing DVDs on Linux.
Well, it would be legal if a company that develops linux applications (heh) would PAY for the legal decoder necessary for a software dvd player. But that will happen after the sun expands and burns the earth to a crisp. In otherwords, don't hold your breath because no one likes or wants to pay for anything that adheres to the linux anti-capitalist philosophy.
linux is capitalistic. It helps create competition and small businesses which run a capitalistic society. It is the Hollywood industry, Recording Industry, and M$ that is running the anti-capitalistic enterprises. These 3 enterprises suck everything they can suck up, and spit it out, and the only way to combat with them is a free business model. I plan on taking on the recording industry with my label <A HREF="http://www.plutonic-records.com/">Plutonic Records</a plutonic-records.com> because music is my field, but I leave it up to others to take on the other two<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
disasm
disasm
Hmm...
Posted by: OwlWhacker on February 16, 2003 10:27 PM#