Big Buck Bunny
About Big Buck Bunny
Big Buck Bunny's day in the forest runs into Frank the flying squirrel, Rinky the red squirrel, and Gimera the chinchilla, who throw fruit, nuts, and rocks and kill two butterflies. After they hit him, he sets traps and takes Rinky and Gimera first. Frank glides in, grabs a twig the rabbit is holding over spikes, and is snatched up. A butterfly then flies Frank as a kite.
Cast & crew
More about Big Buck Bunny
Sacha Goedegebure wrote and directed. Ton Roosendaal produced it at the Blender Institute, the Blender Foundation's studio, under the code name Project Peach. It was rendered on Sun Microsystems' Sun Grid. The Amsterdam premiere was April 10, 2008, with a further release on May 20, 2008.
Themes
Technique
The short was built in Blender to exercise fur, hair, particles, ambient occlusion, and the render pipeline, then rendered on Sun Grid.
Music
Jan Morgenstern wrote the score. The film has no spoken dialogue.
Notes
- There is no spoken dialogue.
- The picture is under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Jan Morgenstern's score is under a separate Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 license.
- Work on fur, particles, and the render pipeline in this project went into Blender 2.46.
- It followed the foundation's first open film, Elephants Dream, and dropped that film's dark tone for a cartoon revenge joke.
- A bird soils Frank in a shot after the credits.
Scenes
- Frank grabs a twig and sees the spikes under it.
- A butterfly tows Frank like a kite.
Influenced by
- Elephants Dream (2006), the Blender Foundation's previous open film
Also available
- Internet Archive (BigBuckBunny1280x720Stereo)
- Wikimedia Commons (Big Buck Bunny 4K.webm)