In the recent times, Linux has dominated the movie making industry, with moves such as Titanic, Blade, Star Wars, Final Fantasy, XXX, Harry Potter , Load of the Rings , Shrek and many more high profile movies. Studios such as Disney, Pixar , Sony Pictures, Dream Works and ILM has been known to widely use Linux in there productions.
Here is a useful list of Free and commercial related tools for Linux
Linux is the most popular operating system for big budget feature film animation and visual effects, with more than 95% of the servers and desktops at large animation and visual effects companies. People outside the film industry, and even inside the industry sometimes, don't realize that Linux is so big at large studios. Linux is the norm in Hollywood and considered the state-of-the-art. In this upside-down world where Windows and Mac are minority operating systems, Linux evangelists would be hard-pressed to find anyone left to convert. The free operating system built by the people for the people has been embraced foremost by film studios. - Robin Rowe
Here is a useful list of Free and commercial related tools for Linux
- ATI - workstation graphics drivers and GPU
- Baselight - grading and finishing
- Boujou - matchmove
- Conform - editing system
- DaVinci Revival - color correction
- Deadline - render queue
- Flint - visual effects
- FrameCycler - playback
- Gelato - renderer
- Houdini - animation and compositing
- Maya - animation
- Massive - crowd simulation
- Mental Ray - renderer
- Mokey - stabilization
- Monet - motion tracking
- NUKE - compositing
- NVIDIA - workstation graphics drivers and GPU
- Photogenics - HDR painting and retouching
- Piranha - editing system
- Platform LSF - render queue
- qube! - render queue
- RaveHD - DDR playback and HD conversion
- RealFlow - water modeling
- RealSoft - 3D modeling, animation and 3D paint
- RenderMan - renderer
- Rush - render queue
- RushPlay - digital dailies
- Shake - compositing
- SoftImage - animation
- Smoke - editing system
- SpeedGrade - color correction
- SteadyMove - stabilization
- US Animation - cel animation
Free Animation Software and Modelers
- AniTMT - animation with POV-Ray
- Blender - modeler
- Celestia - spaceflight simulation
- FL-Inventor - 3d toolkit
- flow - particle animation
- GTO - geometric data format and Maya plug-in
- K-3D - animation
- KPovModeler - modeler for POV-ray
- libGLOOP - particle simulation
- MakeHuman - humanoid animation
- Moonlight3d - modeler
- POV-Ray and MegaPOV - modelers
- TerraForm - terrain simulation
- TrueVision - POV-ray modeler
- VEE - particle animation
- Wings3d - modeler
Free Audio Software
- Ardour - multitrack recording/editing
- Audacity - audio editor
- LADSPA - audio plug-ins
- Sweep - audio editor
Free Cluster Software
Free Editors
- Celtx - Screenplay (text) editor
- Cuisine - DV NLE (Development abandoned due to employer)
- Kino - DV editor (A really simple editor based on the vi interface keystrokes)
- Shotcut - DV NLE (A new FLTK-based editor)
Sometimes people are looking for Linux and open source, but other times people are just looking for free. A nice free editor for Windows/Mac is Avid Free DV.
Free Linux Distros for Multimedia
Free Movie Playback
- CinePaint - flipbook
- Mplayer - AVI, Quicktime, MPEG
- VPC Movie Player - AVI, Quicktime, MPEG
- Xanim - Quicktime
- Xine - AVI, Quicktime, MPEG, DVD
Free Paint/Retouching
- CinePaint - painting and retouching
- GraphicsMagick - batch image conversion
- ImageMagick - batch image conversion
Free Renderers
- 3D Delight - Renderman-compatible renderer
- Aqsis - renderer
- BMRT - removed as part of legal settlement with Pixar
- Cug - equation renderer
- fluxus - animation from sound
- Pixie - RenderMan compliant renderer
- Radiance - renderer
- Surf - equation renderer
- YafRay - renderer
- zRcube - renderer for POV-Ray
Free Render Queues
- BlenderWebRender - tiny Perl render manager
- Condor - render queue
- DrQueue - C-based render queue with Python
- g4u - network hard disk cloner (uses NetBSD)
- ImpFarm - small Perl render queue for POV-Ray
- Maui - render queue
- OpenPBS - render queue
- Platform Rocks - render queue
- Sun Grid Engine - render queue
- SuperConductor - small Qt/C++ render queue
- Torque - render queue
Free Shader and GPU Tools
Free Titler
There's nothing comparable to Apple Motion that's free. Here's a simple Python program called ReelTitles.
Odd Free Tools
Often recommended by those who've heard of them but never used them personally, people enthusiastic for these tools aren't working at studios.
Source http://linuxmovies.org/
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