Big Buck Bunny
June 7th, 2008I’ve played around in the open source 3D modelling software Blender a little bit. It may not be as fancy as the retail software on the market today, but if you compare it with versions of Maya or MAX from just a few years ago, it blows them out of the water.
A team of creative folks used the free software to make a short animated cartoon, Big Buck Bunny. They were funded by Blender foundation support and pre-orders of the DVD by the Blender community.
It’s licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, so it’s free to watch and distribute so long as the credits are attached. Theoretically you could even download the source files, remix the movie and then sell it for a profit. Here is the original movie via YouTube:
Watch Big Buck Bunny now on YouTube or one of the many other official viewing options.
June 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That was great.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Yeah, it took an incredible amount of volunteer time and effort. Truly a labour of love.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
It’s way better than the turd parade open source movie Elephants Dream. Not that I could really do better… but dude, I expect them to do better.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I didn’t really like Elephant’s Dream myself, but you have to hand it to them, they are improving.