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

Blender foundation announced another open movie project after successful project “Elephants Dream” . The new short film is named as “Peach. If you are an animator and like to join this project you can apply to participate in the team, Last date is June 25th so hurry up.

For more visit http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/2007-plans/peach-open-movie/

Blender is a free open source 3D object creator. It is very easy and you can create a 3D art with less experience. I am very attracted with its simple interface. There are many tutorials you can get for blender. Official tutorial and tips can be found at http://www.blender.org/tutorials-help/. Using one of the tutorials am also created a 3D image. There is also a open animation cinema project named elephants dream . Another animation project using blender is plumiferos . There is a gallery for images created using blender. Please download and try it you will surely love it.

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This is my experiment with blender. Need to improve

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More :

http://www.blender.org/