Big Buck Bunny Officially Released - Amazing !!

[din]

First - Please, please do not make this thread another battlefield for OS or company war. I am trying to stay away from those as far as possible.

Second - I downloaded the movie, it is about 885 MB (1920 x 1080 one, format - MP4), I am posting this only after viewing it. Amazing work. I never thought such things can be done in opensource. An Excellent one.

And it worth downloading. Highly recommended.

Now the news -

The much awaited second installment of the Open Movie Project after "Orange" called "Peach" has released "Big Buck Bunny" on 30/05/2008.

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

What is an Open Movie ??

The movie has been entirely made using Free and Open Source Software*. And it is released entirely as open content, means the entire production files( like source code ) is made available to the public, and they have all the freedoms.

The main Free Software tool used is Blender, which is under the GPL License. Blender(www.blender.org) has evolved to become a powerful 3D modeling animation tool.

Also Gimp(www.gimp.org) (and other FOSS tools ) has really utilized the power of Free and Open Source Software and the community such that
the result can challenge any mainstream animation movie.

Indeed has undoubtedly proven the power of the FOSS community and all cheers to the Peach team.

( and especially to Ton Roosendaal, the man behind it )

From http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/about/

Source : An email from ILUG

[Faun]

even i hav use GIMP for my website deign and file editing, its really a nice piece of software.

Btw is what is the runlength of movie ?

[din]

9 mins 56 seconds !!!!!

[nvidia]

^^Thats a little too short for a movie..
But its a nice move to make an OS movie.

[Faun]

i guess ther is a less than 300MB version too, i hav the torrent for that. Will download tonight. Already the queue is full.

[nvidia]

What? 9 mins movie and its 300MB?

[Faun]

^^there are 3 resolutions available for PC
1920x1080 885MB
1280x720 300MB~
854x480 90MB~

or watch it on youtube

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4

[nvidia]

Aww... Bandwidth limitations...
Maybe digit will add this in their dvd next month... Maybe...

[din]

The story is very nice as well. Loved it

[nvidia]

^^Whats it all about?

[Faun]

^^why cant u see the youtube version ?
its not very taxing

[MetalheadGautham]

I always find most of these softwares like Gimp, Blender and Inkscape rather difficult to use.
But I seem to have no trouble at all when I use audio production related suits.

[Voldy]

thks for the news will d/l it

[MetalheadGautham]

yah btw, I forgot to tell... I downloaded it. This night. Forgot to post in Insomaniac thread. Sorry.

[din]

I see an Indian name in that. At the ed of the movie, the scrolling

Neha Pandey

That is really nice. Proud to be an Indian.

[neelu09]

thnx for the info...downloading it right now.......

short and sweet movie

[hullap]

hmm,
downloading it

[sagargv]

what softs are used to make films like icebreak ?

sorry for the noobish questions.. and how do they do the drawings of characters and various objects in games ? what softwares are used in making games like most wanted , crysis etc.. ?

[x3060]

thanks for the news..will download it...