Digital Ordnance was founded by Daryll Strauss, a major force in Linux development; having been involved with the product since it's inception. As a pioneer in the use of Linux for the post production industry, Daryll Strauss has been writing graphics software since the late 70's. He began his career writing image processing code in the Aerospace industry before taking his graphics skills to Hollywood to become a developer of visual effects software, in the process, changing the way the film industry creates special effects.

He is the man who first ported hardware accelerated 3D support for Linux on the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics cards, allowing them to be used for video game animations and Hollywood graphics, subsequently he wrote drivers for many other graphics cards, some of which are still in use today. For the film industry he has worked at with several big name facilities designing software for film scanning and recording, color calibration, production, rendering, and facilities management.

In 1997, while at Digital Domain, he designed and built the now famous Linux cluster used to render images for Titanic. In addition to working on the visual effects oscar winning Titanic, Daryll was involved with What Dreams May Come which also won the visual effects oscar and the nominated Apollo 13. Since then he has also supported the 3Dfx hardware implementation under Linux. His diverse set of skills includes device drivers, 3D hardware, and high level rendering.

Strauss has written so much code for Linux and Hollywood graphics in general that it is a good bet that your company is already using some of that code. He has literally changed the way that Hollywood creates digital effects. Because he understands production, he is committed to creating tools that will improve production at your facility. Call Digital Ordnance today and let us help you do post production better.