Case Study: Walt Disney Feature Animation Not Confidential: Distribute Far and Wide Page 2 of 4 Walt Disney Feature Animation Overview: With the help of CodeWeavers’ CrossOver Office product running Adobe Photoshop, Walt Disney Feature Animation was able to hasten its move towards a Linux-centric production environment. Walt Disney Feature Animation is the oldest, and most famous, animation studio in the world. Operating from two physical locations (Orlando, Florida, and Burbank, California), the studio is constantly pushing the limits of what can be done with computer animation technology. Long a bastion of Silicon Graphics IRIX-based applications, in 2001 the studio began exploring alternatives to its Unix workstations, in reaction to SGI’s inability to offer a compelling c

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