Interesting discussion this is becoming. The studios will be interested, altho they will need to be approached, I think. For a while CinePaint was being
used at some facilities and now Krita is used to some degree.
As far as the no. of paying customer goes, this is exactly why we need a kickstarter. The price is affordable for people outside US, which is a
huge factor, I wud buy AdobeCC apps if they were available on linux and I am sure many others wud. So why not Affinity, permanent license for a
capable software which can be depended upon in production... Does the campaign need to come from the community or can Serif work on it.
Do you guys have interns, put an intern on it... ;)