Behind The Scenes at WETA

ZDNet has a good article on the making of Avatar by WETA showing some KDE 3.x desktops running Maya.

Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Shown recently on BBC Four, as usual when they visit NASA Linux/UNIX dominates with a few Macs and an occasional Windows box.


At about 23 minutes there's a simple Dell dual-monitor setup...















...running what looks like Red Hat possibly, judging by the theme...

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At 23 minutes we see what looks to me like a Debian desktop
















Then at 36:56 there's Andy Rivkin's (John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) nice dual monitor Linux desktop (and a Macbook):





























You can still at the time of writing watch the programme on BBC iPlayer here.