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DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre
By Robin Rowe on Tue, 2007-06-05 01:00. Audio/Video
DreamWorks Animation pushes the limits of CG filmmaking with Linux.

All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and more than 3,000 server CPUs.

It is really great to see Indian students achieving so much with their talent in a international competition.

A team of student animators from Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics Ltd (MAAC), one of India's leading Animation and Visual Effects training academy won the Best Student Animation Film- Social Welfare Award at the FICCI BAF Awards 2006 held in Mumbai. The film that won the award, titled 'Takes You Higher?' dealt with the social message of anti-smoking. The other two films nominated in Social Welfare Award category: ' Just the last puff' and 'Fusion' were also from MAAC, thus students from MAAC swept all nomination slots in this award category.