Re: Animation for Television

Sri,

> I am planning to produce an animation/comic show for television 
> (mainly targeting the children). I am wondering if it can be cheaper on 
> linux platform. Can someone help me regardig where to start / if open 
> source has proven software for this.

FYI, a live animated cartoon I'm working on (in Windows XP):

http://comicstripnetwork.com/cartoon.overlord/

To answer your question, no there isn't proven open source software for 
TV animation. Blender has yet to succeed in commercial TV or film 
production. Linux SoftImage XSI is a more powerful commercial package 
($500) that has been used successfully in commercial work by ILM and 
many others.

SOUTH PARK is the only TV animation I'm aware of using Linux. They have 
a Linux renderfarm and Mac desktops with Maya. They could have just as 
well used Linux desktops with Maya, but like Macs. Macs support video 
codec playback better than Linux. Linux is used by all the large studios 
for film animation, just not TV.

More on Linux motion picture software:

http://www.linuxmovies.org/software.html

Robin
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LinuxMovies.org


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