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Re:Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B by mixmastamyk on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @06:08PM (#29168814)
VFX houses avoided opening their common tools for way too long, especially after moving from SGI to Linux around the turn of the century. To their detriment, constantly on the border of bankruptcy. Blender is only just starting to get used.

They don't use much Apple or OSX.

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Re:Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B by tim-- on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @11:19PM (#29171046)
The economics of using OS X for VFX work just doesn't add up. When the machines from Apple are easily double what a machine built by an integrator will cost. Add to that the hardware support has always been flaky (see: Nvidia/Apple spout causing new cards not to work).

When your house requires you to have a large influx of contact workers, you want to have the cheapest most efficient setup possible. Apple just doesn't cut the mustard here.

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