Gimp In A Studio?

[michael-johnson--10]

I guess this questions is geared toward those of you who have already expeirenced life working inside of a studio, its demands, and toolsets required. Do you guys think GIMP could hold its own creating content for video games? I mean, I'm not texture genius, but, I've managed to pull off some decent textures using GIMP.

I ask this for obvious reasons, if I ever get the chance to open up my own CG production studio, being able to use GIMP would save a great deal of money.

[joojaa]

sure why not, imean ive done stuff with programs that were worse than PAINT is.

[dunkelzahn]

I used to work in a virtual studio for national broadcasting and us production people used Gimp a lot. Gimp is (still?) supporting the old SGI machines and that meant we could use those for creating textures and photo retouching. But we also used it on PC

[deke-kincaid]

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Do you guys think GIMP could hold its own creating content for video games? I mean, I'm not texture genius, but, I've managed to pull off some decent textures using GIMP.
Yes it can, but Photoshop is only $600, which is pennies when it comes to the cost of running a business and it's a tax write off(cost of doing business). Why settle for the free tool, when the pro tool which every artist knows is only a cheap purchase away. I'm not saying Gimp is a bad tool, but it's not as good at Photoshop. Also, especially in film, Photoshop supports 16 bit(and limited float support in CS2) and Gimp is only 8 bit.

[joojaa]

Well especialy if you ever need to print anything!

[user_deleted]

There's also Cinepaint which is capable of HDR 32-bit like Photoshop CS 2.0 where as with Gimp it's currently only capable of 16-bit. Another thing to consider is that Photoshop CS 2.0 is ported to Windows and OSX but Cinepaint and Gimp are offered for Linux, Windows and OSX to meet the flexible needs of studios. An important factor is that neither Cinepaint or Gimp cost studios anything because both products are released under the GPL. Since both Cinepaint and Gimp are released under the GPL studios can contribute code to further developing the software so as to meet their particular production requirements.