Comment Any place in the market for this? (Score 1) 577
With the gimp for raster imaging, Inkscape for vector imaging, and blender3d for 3d modeling and animation, there is no doubt in my mind that OSS has come a *loooong* way since my days as a computer artist. However, I don't see the production world moving away from Photoshop/Illustrator/Maya/SoftImage just yet. There are too many unknowns, and the last thing a production office wants to worry about is missing a deadline because the software stopped working.
As someone who may fiddle around with these programs in his free time, that is a little different than making my living and serving customers with it. The one guarantee the consumer has with pay-for-play software like Photoshop or Maya is support.
On another note, has the OSS community come up with an alternative to layout programs like QuarkXpress yet?
As someone who may fiddle around with these programs in his free time, that is a little different than making my living and serving customers with it. The one guarantee the consumer has with pay-for-play software like Photoshop or Maya is support.
On another note, has the OSS community come up with an alternative to layout programs like QuarkXpress yet?
