Big Buck Bunny
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| Original title | Big Buck Bunny | ||
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| Country of production | Netherlands | ||
| Publishing year | 2008 | ||
| length | 10 mins | ||
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| Director | Sacha Goedegebure | ||
| script | Sacha Goedegebure | ||
| production | Ton Roosendaal | ||
| music | Jan Morgenstern | ||
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Big Buck Bunny is a computer-generated short film that was produced primarily using free software , specifically the 3D graphics software Blender . The working name of the film project was Peach .
Both the finished film and the production materials such as animation data , characters and textures were released on May 30, 2008 under the free Creative Commons naming license. When the film was announced, it was described as "funny and furry", which is mainly achieved through slapstick comedy.
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The main character is an unusually large and plump rabbit ("Big Buck Bunny"), who enjoys flowers and butterflies at the beginning of the film. However, when the flying squirrel Frank, the squirrel Rinky and the chinchilla Gamera appear, kill two butterflies and throw fruits and nuts at the rabbit, it decides to give up its gentleness and take revenge on the rodents. To do this, it sets up various traps.
The film
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On June 10, 2007 Ton Roosendaal announced a successor to the Blender Foundation's first project in 2006 - Elephants Dream . In August 2007 a production team with eight members from seven countries came together at the Blender Institute in Amsterdam. This studio was set up by the Blender Foundation to make free movie and game creation easier.
Work began in October 2007 under the code name Peach . In addition to the actual film, there were also improvements to the Blender software used, such as systems for displaying fur, trees and volumetric light as well as some bug fixes. After the premiere of the film on April 10, 2008 in Amsterdam and the mailing of pre-ordered DVDs from May 20, it was released on the Internet on May 30, 2008.
The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, donations from the Blender community, pre-sale of the film's DVD, and commercial sponsors. Based on the film, a computer game called Yo Frankie or code name Apricot was created at the Blender Institute .
Another short film by the Blender Foundation called Sintel was also produced by Ton Roosendaal and released on October 1, 2010.
People involved
- Sacha Goedegebure - director
- Andreas Goralczyk - Artistic Director
- Enrico Valenza - Artistic Director
- Nathan Vegdahl - animator
- William Reynish - animator
- Campbell Barton - Technical Director
- Brecht van Lommel - Technical Director
- Jan Morgenstern - composer
- Ton Roosendaal - producer
Used software
- The 3D graphics software Blender
- The Linux ( Ubuntu ) operating system
- The image editing program GIMP
- The vector editor Inkscape , for example for the logo
- Subversion for version management
- The programming language Python
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The main character "Bunny"
Frank, Rinky and Gamera (from left to right)
Scene at the end in which Bunny catches Frank
The landscape
Scene of the film in Blender
Previous picture, overview
The three "bad guys"
Web links
- Big Buck Bunny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site with download of the film (English)
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- ↑ Dahna McConnachie: Open source on the big screen: Matt Ebb tells tales of Elephants Dream. (No longer available online.) In: Computerworld. Archived from the original on February 18, 2008 ; accessed on January 15, 2008 .
- ↑ a b About. In: Peach Open Movie. Blender Foundation, accessed February 4, 2008 .
- ↑ Tim Formica: It's HERE !!! Retrieved March 20, 2008 .
- ↑ Blender Institute. (No longer available online.) Blender Foundation, archived from the original on May 10, 2008 ; accessed on February 4, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rui Paulo Sanguinheira Diogo: Modeling 2.50. In: Linux magazine. December 2007, accessed March 19, 2008 .
- ↑ BBB premiere. In: Peach Open Movie. Blender Foundation, accessed March 19, 2008 .
