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Blender is widely used for 3D I believe.

You are right but Blender is the exception rather then the rule.

Krita ? OpenColor.io ? Blender ? MyPaint ?

Krita is awesome and getting traction, but most people are still on Photoshop.

How does that have anything to do with viability? If you are an artist and there is an amazing tool with a fairly big user base but not as big as photoshop how does that stop you using krita in any way?

Its not viable if you ignore all the ways it is viable.

The discussion is about visibility, not viability. The opening post says:

>open source is not that visible in the graphics/animation space

It's visible, but only really in terms of libraries and frameworks, not as user-facing tools.

OpenEXR, Alembic, USD, OpenImageIO, OCIO, Open Shader Language, OpenSubDiv, etc, etc.

GIMP is an open source graphics program and Blender is an open source 3D graphics program. Both incredibly high quality products that are open source

Pixar would like a word.

What OSS are they using? :o

I believe they use Linux only for rendering.