NewsForge: Film Gimp Continues Hollywood Takeover

“Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth
motion picture studio to use it in making feature films. Film Gimp,
a sophisticated image retouching program designed to manipulate
high dynamic range 35mm film images, is a collaborative open source
project that branched from GIMP in 1998. After years behind the
scenes in Hollywood, Film Gimp had its public launch on SourceForge
on July 4, 2002.

“ComputerCafe, based in Santa Maria, California, is best known
for creating elaborate photorealistic 3D sequences for Spy Kids 2,
including attacking skeletons, a miniature menagerie, and mutant
animals. The studio created special effects for Panic Room, Hulk,
Imposter, The One, Armageddon, Flubber, and Battlefield Earth.
ComputerCafe is using Film Gimp in current feature film
productions…”

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