Big Buck Bunny (code-named Peach) is a short animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. Like the foundation’s previous film Elephants Dream, the film is made using free software. Work began in October, 2007 and the film was released in an April 10th, 2008 premiere in Amsterdam.
The short is the first project by the Blender foundation to be created by the Blender Institute, a division of the foundation set up specifically to facilitate the creation of open content films and games. The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, donations from the Blender community, pre-sales of the film’s DVD and commercial sponsorship. Both the final product and production data, including animation data, characters and textures are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
Have you ever wondered what could be done using a free open source 3D content creation suite? Check out Big Bug Bunny! Sure, Blender might not be as powerful as Maya or Cinema 4D but the cool stuff you can do with a free tool is quite impressive..
One last thing, you should take a look at Elephants Dream as well.
