[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Scooby-Doo, the computer-generated dog in the Warner Brothers
film of the same name, was created using Linux. Scooby-Doo was
released on June 14, 2002 and stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, from the
popular TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Live footage for the
film was shot in Australia, and the Scooby-Doo character was added
electronically later.“Animators at the Los Angeles post-production studio Rhythm
& Hues used Maya, Houdini, Film GIMP and proprietary
Linux-based tools. ‘We utilized about a hundred Linux desktops to
create Scooby-Doo’, says Technology VP Mark Brown. ‘My biggest
problem was all the animators yelling at me for more Linux
boxes.’Film GIMP is the motion picture version of the popular
open-source GIMP image editing program. Scooby-Doo was in
production at the time I visited the studio for my article, ‘Film
GIMP at Rhythm & Hues’, which appeared in the March issue of
Linux Journal. Both a developer and a user of Film GIMP, Rhythm
& Hues keeps a few Windows and Mac OS X machines around, mainly
for compatibility with Adobe Photoshop…”