[Mailinglist] Big Buck Bunny Officially Released

[shirish]

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On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Sameer Mohamed Thahir
<sameer.thahir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ILUG Members

Hi all,

> 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/

The link given above does not work. It gives an 500 - Internal Server
Error. Would try again in the evening. Although I'm looking forward to
look and share the same with my FOSS friends.

> 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/
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This Open movie project had as main targets:
>
>    * Developing tools in Blender for editing and rendering hair, fur or
>      grass
>    * Improve character animation tools for cartoonish motion and
>      deformation
>    * Test Blender with giant outdoor environments, with large grassy
>      fields and many trees with leaves
>    * Further validate Blender as a professional animation creation suite
>
> And secondary:
>
>    * Create a great and good looking animation short, licensed freely
>      as open content
>    * Provide content for other artists to learn from or to re-use,
>      including documentation and tutorials
>
> And of course: Have lots of fun!
>
> The results of the Peach open movie project has been licensed under the
> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> license. This includes all
> the data we'll publish online and on the DVDs, and all of the contents
> on this website. If any content on this site is not licensed as such, it
> will be clearly indicated.
>
> In short, this means you can freely reuse and distribute this content,
> also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.
>
> The attribution is:
> *(c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org*
>
> Excluded from the Creative Commons is: all logos on this website
> (including Blender logo, Peach logo, Creative Commons logo) and
> associated trademarks.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Find more information
> www.bigbuckbunny.org
> www.peach.blender.org
> www.blender.org
> www.elephantsdream.org
>
> I have got the high definition videos for the movie in ogg theora, h.264
> and mpeg4 ( thanks a lot to Devarajan Sir )
> Will be getting the rest of the formats ( low res ones) and the entire
> production files soon.
>
> Anyone interested do get in touch.

Interested if you can mail me the ogg theora version of the movie as
well as some of the production files.

> Remember big buck bunny will be an opportunity to bring in people
> (especially kids)
> and entertain them ( its just 10 mins ) and also explain to them the
> concept of Free Software and the
> community.

Isn't this a feature-length movie ?

> Anyone interested in screening please let us know.

Interested to screen at my local place, Pune, Maharashtra.

> And people who work with blender or who are planning to, do tell us your
> experiences.
>
> So i guess the party will begin now, and yes firefox 3 party also round
> the corner!!!

Also looking forward to ff3.
> I think it will be party time in kochi for the monsoon!!!
>
>
> Thank You
>
> Regards
> Sameer Mohamed Thahir

-- 
 Regards,
 Shirish Agarwal
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