Re: Animation for Television

Hello; Sean could you please explain what a "production pipeline" is? It
sounds good but I could only guess it speeds up production. I've started
playing with video on Fedora for just a year now and appreciate any
knowledge that makes this hobby more fun.

Thanks
Dallas

Sean Novak wrote:
> Sri,
> 
> For one, I know that Linux will make the production of your shows 
> cheaper.  Like Alan said, Linux typically is a lot more technical, but 
> very powerful in the hands of experienced TDs, artists, etc. 
> 
> Blender has many of the abilities that you would need to produce a show 
> (modeling, animation, rendering, non-linear editing, compositing).  
> There are however, packages out there that do a better job at 
> specializing in some of these tasks.  (ie. mac/final cut).  I'm a Maya 
> user for the most part, but I'm doing what I can to transfer my entire 
> production pipeline to Blender.  If I can give you any more information, 
> just ask.
> 
> Sean
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 	-------Original Message-------
> From: Alan Jones
> Subject: Re: [Linuxmovies-general] Animation for Television
> Sent: 03 Apr '07 04:38
> 
> Hi Sri,
> 
> I've got no doubt that it can be cheaper on linux. At a minimum I'd
> suggest you use linux for your servers and workstations. I've also
> written renderfarm management software that may interest you
> http://sf.net/projects/splish (no official release yet as I need to
> make a few things easier for general users - unfortunately setup is
> one of those - which is annoying as it's a on off task).
> 
> The main challenge you'll have using OS software for the actual
> artistic work will be getting good artists who are familiar with open
> source packages such as blender. However if you can get someone in who
> can trainyour artists and a good pipeline TD prepared to learn the
> packages and get it all integrated then I've got no doubt you can
> successfully run a full scale children's television production on
> FLOSS software.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan.
> 
> On 3/12/07, srinivasa rao gantenapalli <[email protected] 
> <https://mbox.snovak.com/compose.php?to=gantenapalli-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>> wrote:
>  > Hi Group,
>  >
>  > 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.
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance.
>  > ---Sri
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