[berkut]

Erm, I don't understand where this impression there's no high quality media content creation tools available for Linux is coming from...

I guess it depends what segment of the market you're looking at: 80% of the large VFX houses in the world use Linux to do the modelling, texturing, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing, using programs like: Maya, Mari, Mudbox, SoftImage, Houdini, Katana, PRMan, Arnold, Nuke.

All those high-end apps that are used everyday to create feature films (and tv shows and adverts) work on Linux.

[jfaucett]

sorry, I should've been more specific... I meant linux in the sense that they're open source. The only contender in my book for high end open source media creation tools is really Blender which can hang with the Max/Maya lot. Also Linux tends to be used almost purely for the processing side, ie render farms, for film, 3d, etc. The designers and content creators themselves are rarely on linux though.

[berkut]

As I said in my post, 80% of the big VFX studios like DD, Weta, SPI, ILM, Dreamworks, DNeg, Framestore, MPC, FuelFX, RSP are using Linux for everything. Not just renderfarms - everything - creating the original content, modelling, texturing, lookdev, etc, etc.

So I don't know where you're getting the "Also Linux tends to be used almost purely for the processing side" from.

[cutie]

Everything you've said is true, but it's a relatively small industry, very custom (where linux shines), and little overlap with others.