After a long wait of months at last it happened, the premiere of Buck Bunny. The premier of Big Buck Bunny was on 9th April 2008 at Amsterdam Film Academy.

After the successful project “orange”, blender foundation started their second movie project on October, 2007. Big Buck Bunny is the second movie project from blender foundation, which is created using free and open source tools.

This movie is based on one big rabbit and three Rodents. Don’t know more about it, need to wait for DVD release and HTTP/FTP mirrors

It will be interesting to look at the tools they used to build the movie, so lets check it

Work station

Hardware : As per the official blog there are 8 work stations for the Peach project which created Big Buck Bunny. 5x Maqina C6850DC 3D Blender Work-station’s and 2x Maqina X5130DC Workstation’s.

Ref : http://www.maqina.nl/product/viewproduct.asp?AreaID=-364187415&ProductFormID=1078838818

They used NIS and NFS facility to connect all the work stations and all of them used Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 as Desktop. Blender was the main animation tool along with Gimp and many other open source graphics tool.

So who said open source will not be able to use in production environment