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What's the app
by rizzo on Friday 28/Nov/2003, @22:50

What is the app being used to model Golum?

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Re: What's the app
by Philippe on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @00:28

blender ?? refactored for the lotr ?

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Re: What's the app
by eyeballkid on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @01:20

It's Maya (http://www.alias.com).

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Re: What's the app
by anonymous on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @01:47

Hmmm, yes they use Maya. But what another graphic app do they use on Linux plattform?
Gimp, Photoshop (w/cxoffice), VMware?
I don't think they have only one app (Maya) for one PC with Linux. I think Maya is useless if I can't change some textures with ??gimp??photoshop?? on the same machine!?

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Re: What's the app
by rinse on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @04:29

Perhaps they use CinePaint as well?

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Re: What's the app
by Calle on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @05:12

My guess is that they useed Photoshop with Crossover Office. I heard that the US Film Idustry paid Codeweavers $100000 to make it work with Crossover.

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Re: What's the app
by a.c. on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @05:58

It would be nice to see that money used to enhance GIMP to compete against Photoshop iff Adobe is not really going to port it.

While I support Commercial software (I will but it iff I like it and will not use it otherwise), I do think that we need alternatives if these companies are not coming over.

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Re: What's the app
by kjd on Sunday 30/Nov/2003, @20:32

From their perspective, having the exact same application running on either platform may be a greater advantage than having a native, free application that is somewhat different. Pretty much everyone in the industry knows Photoshop.

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Re: What's the app
by Rayiner Hashem on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @10:08

There are a number of custom tools that the development houses have ported over. A lot of these tools ran on IRIX or Solaris already, so the ports were pretty simple. Beyond that, there are a number of other standard pro tools the studios use, namely XSI (used by ILM), Shake, etc.

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Re: What's the app
by LaNcom on Tuesday 02/Dec/2003, @10:02

They could have used Amazon for Linux instead of Photoshop (likely, at least for textures and backgrounds). It's way beyond Photoshop (or the Gimp), but hold your breath, it's _very_ expensive.
http://www.ifx.com

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Re: What's the app
by grovel on Friday 05/Dec/2003, @10:20

I disagree, they probably have only one app for one PC with Linux. These are very specialized guys, there's no way, the animator or the modeller is going to do the textures himself. Probably they use Photoshop on MacOS for it...

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Re: What's the app
by anders on Saturday 29/Nov/2003, @04:50

I think it is Mirai.
Check out one of the main modellers discussion site for more info:
http://cube.phlatt.net/forums/spiraloid/index.php
There is a special thread about Gollum:
http://cube.phlatt.net/forums/spiraloid/viewtopic.php?TopicID=493

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