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“While much of the visual effects creation and compositing
itself is still done with commercial tools such as Autodesk?s Maya
or The Foundry?s Nuke, Landauer says open source is asserting
itself in fields such as data manipulation and transformation. One
of the primary attractions of open source tools is their cost ? or
lack thereof. With studios looking to squeeze every last cent out
of budgets, visual effects companies are no longer able to charge
for much of the data handling work. ‘There are a lot of specialist
tools that people were writing for asset management and a whole
bunch of very specialised things, and there has been an enormous
amount of duplication of effort across the industry,’ Landauer
says.”