‘Big Buck Bunny’ was released on 35mm film format, on DVD and Blu-ray for a small price and a free download in multiple formats. Currently 14 people are working full-time in the Institute, (…) working on an Open Game based on the characters from the movie.

The promotion of Open Content creation and distribution is one of the main goals of the Creative Commons, the organization that created the ‘Creative Commons’ licenses, which have been widely adopted by artists, musicians, and other creative individuals who wish to freely share their creative endeavors.īlender Institute in Amsterdam is one of the first companies worldwide exploiting Open Content professionally and commercially. Not only open source tools such as the 3D suite ‘Blender’ were used to create the movie, but also the movie itself – including all materials as used in the animation studio – will be freely accessible for everybody to reuse, to learn from it or just to enjoy it. The movie differentiates itself mostly by its totally open character. “The primary intent of the movie was to stimulate the development of open source 3D software” said producer and Institute director Ton Roosendaal, “But the result equals on artistic level as well as on technical ingenuity the quality of what you would expect from large animation studios”. In the typical 1950ies cartoon tradition Big Buck then prepares for the rodents a comical revenge. ‘Big Buck Bunny’ is a comedy about a well-tempered rabbit “Big Buck”, who finds his day spoiled by the rude actions of the forest bullies, three rodents. The team members got a great studio facility and housing in Amsterdam, all travel costs reimbursed, and a fee sufficient to cover all expenses during the period.įrom the Joint press release of Blender Foundation Again a small team (7) of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender community have been invited to come together to work in Amsterdam from October 2007 until April 2008 on completing a short 3D animation movie. It’s also the first download to be featured in 2009 to the p2p community.Īs a follow-up to the successful project Orange’s “Elephant’s Dream”, the Blender Foundation initiated another open movie project.

After a production period of over six months, this short film premiered in the hip new Amsterdam cinema ‘Studio K’ and is now available for everyone else to freely enjoy and share.īig Buck Bunny is the first Creative Commons film to ever be featured on the FrostWire welcome screen. ‘Big Buck Bunny’ is a short 3D animation movie created by the Amsterdam based ‘Blender Institute’ and a small international team of creators.

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