Krita demo at Digital Domain London was a success.

[Simon Legrand]

To expand on that.

The job of a VFX supe is as follows:

-Budgets for the shot = X.

-Artist budgeted for 10 weeks on shot.

-Artist gets it right on the first week.

-Supe gets artist to do 9 more different versions for the remaining 9 weeks
on the of-chance the artist might come up with something better.

-10 weeks are up. First version was better and gets approved.

-Artist jumps out the tenth floor window and makes bloody mess on pavement.

-Artist picks himself off the pavement and goes back to work the next day a
little more dead inside than 10 weeks and 1 day before.

:) YAY for the Hollywood machine!

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Oh and I almost forgot the possibility for a rather non-linear workflow.
>>> Filter layers, layer groups and a lot of the layer management features are
>>> great.
>>>
>>> As VFX artists and TDs the more we can do non-linearly the happier we
>>> are. The hard thing about what we do isn't creating cool 3D things, it's
>>> implementing the Director's changes over and over again. For this we need
>>> to 'bake' as little as possible of what we do. Hence the popular workflows
>>> of packages like Nuke and Houdini and why packages like 3dsMax and After
>>> Effects aren't really used in large studios.
>>>
>>>
>> Interesting, never thought about it that way. I remember the Krita
>> meeting where we discussed these things e.g. to using nodes instead of
>> layers. The conclusion was that great artists would get it right the first
>> time.
>>
>
> Lol. Wow. Hmmmyeah, that kind of statement would get you shot where I come
> from. :)
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Simon Legrand <legrand.simon at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> The most successful aspect of it is that it seemed to be able to deal
>>>> with pretty large images at high bit depth natively. The next thing was the
>>>> familiar UI. People in my industry feel at home with QT as most of our
>>>> vendors use it. Also Krita has a photoshop-esque design that made everyone
>>>> feel comfortable. But it was the brush engine got the biggest wows.
>>>>
>>>> Of course it was merely a preliminary demo to see if artists were
>>>> willing to put a bit of a 'bump' in their workflow (by using Krita instead
>>>> of photoshop) for the greater good. Most were and by next week I have to
>>>> have a 64bit version installed in our package manager. {Gulp}
>>>>
>>>> The best thing about it was that even artists with a windows machine
>>>> and potatoshop installed in addition to their Linux box showed a definite
>>>> interest in testing Krita. I was expecting to only win over the poor sods
>>>> who only have access to Gimp, but it seemed to win over a lot more people
>>>> than I expected.
>>>>
>>>> Photoshop has a lot of bells and whistles that we don't need in VFX, if
>>>> Krita focuses on performance and scalability, it will take photoshop's cake
>>>> in VFX quite easily I believe.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Simon Legrand <
>>>>> legrand.simon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Last Friday I ran a Krita demo at Digital Domain London which went
>>>>>> amazingly well.
>>>>>> The feedback from the artists was along the lines of: "Wow. I didn't
>>>>>> realise it was going to be THAT good".
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What feature was that? What were the favorites?
>>>>>
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