Just discovered Bjørn Hansen’s blogging from OSCON, the Friday 26th of July notes are really interesting: Open Source in VFX, its a short excerpt of the session held by Milton Ngan, the IT Manager for Peter Jackson’s Weta Graphics.
I always liked the flashy machines from SGI (Although they have been falling behind for a long while now, IMHO), but its nice to see Linux taking over as the primary platform for the movie industry.