WETA Digital uses Linux+KDE
25/12/2004 19:29 | Categories: Movies | 0 Comments
I spent this afternoon watching almost all the extra contents of DVD 3 and 4 of the extended edition of the The Two Towers. One of the documentaries shows how Gollum was designed and transformed into a computer generated creature. During the video they show several shots of the computers used by the 3D artists at WETA (the company who took care of all the effects in the trilogy) and to my surprise, they all seem to use the KDE desktop environment which is, in my opinion, the most flexible and powerful environment for Linux (and the one I have been using non-stop since version 1.0
) I managed to capture some screens of those computers so that you can believe me:shot 1(this one requires a bit of imagination)
shot 2
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shot 6
You can tell it is KDE because of the big 'K' on the bottom left corner of the screen (as in the Windows "Start" button) and because the big colourful icons in the desktop bar. This is hopefully a good exampe that Linux is not anymore for hobbyists and geeks and that we're getting close to world domination, mwahahahahahaha!!!