Big Buck Bunny slated for internet release

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From the Blender Foundation:

Big Buck Bunny Internet release Friday 30th May, around noon! [UTC/GMT +2 hours]

The official release of the BBB movie files will be friday at noon. Will be big fun!

If you would like the HD version and also support the Blender Foundation, go to the E-Shop to purchase the complete BBB kit.

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    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Awesome! I can’t wait for the release!

      Thanks for the news
      Cuby

    • Erik Sejersen

      I smell slow connections and alot of errors :P

    • piXelman

      Just use a torrent…. no need to worry about any errors.

    • Gryphon

      Friday around noon… GMT?

    • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

      Do they have enought seeders? I’m keen to seed! My ISP dont count uploads. XD

    • surt

      Gustav: everyone who’s got the DVD can just download the torrent file and copy the files from the DVD for instant seeds. I certainly will.

    • http://scientification.wordpress.com wayne

      around noon in what timezone?

    • http://scientification.wordpress.com wayne

      oh wait… it’s in the post
      my bad :)

    • An8kid

      Wahooooo!

      can’t wait for the release, I would have purchased the dvd, but im skint :(
      I will also seed for the weekend!

    • Tim F

      Wayne, You’re not crazy. I saw your comment and then added the edit.

    • vilda

      sounds like you won’t get the HD version over net, which isn’t true I guess. But otherwise, I’m really looking forward to see it!

    • elliott

      you ask about timezone?
      [UTC/GMT +2 hours] means east-europe.
      this means:
      around 11 in Berlin, Paris, Rom
      around 10 in London.
      around 5 in New York.

    • Dusty

      Great news!

      So…….

      how down do you think the server will be with all of us loggin in? It could be a loooooong day! ;p

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      Would someone be able to check what happened to my order? I mean, I’m in Germany and it’s really odd that I didn’t get it yet, I assume… (I ordered far before the release)

    • http://thaines.net Tom

      elliot: Its currently British summer time in the UK, which means we are at gmt+1, so that will be 11 in London. Doesn’t matter to me of course, I already have the DVD. I just can’t find the enterprise mushroom…

    • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

      Surt: What do you mean? They have the .avi’s on the dvds? If not, you’d have to rip it. And then it all depends on what codec you used etc etc and then if the hash doesnt match it’ll be one useless seed…

      Am I missing something?

    • http://bartius.crouch.googlepages.com Crouch

      Quick suggestion for blendernation: Put a digg link in the article tomorrow so there is one centralised story to dig. Should make it easier to get to the frontpage of that site.

    • surt

      Gustav: Yep, AVIs and OGGs are on the disks. ISO’s should be identical too.

    • Schlops

      @intrr: Sitting here in germany, waiting for my DVD, too.

    • weidenfels

      Got mine here in Germany also much later than expected, on Tuesday 27th.
      Looks that we are too close to Amsterdam to get it earlyer than those in Australia.

    • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

      Surt:

      Oh! Well that makes it nice and simple then! lol.

      Sweet….

      Is it legal to Torrent the .iso? Just curious.

      I will buy a copy soon. I just want it now. lol.

    • Loy

      Too bad i’ll be at Pinkpop around that time. Watching Metallica and Rage against the Machine. The bunny will have to wait :-)

    • http://blenderman345.googlepages.com blenderman345

      Hey, according to what I’ve heard there’s supposed to be about 16 GB of data on the discs. Those of us who didn’t buy the discs: How are WE gonna download 16 GB?!?!?!?!?!(Unless we download MB by MB which means we’ll probably be sitting at our computer for 10,240 MB!(Okay, 100 MB at a time) :D

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub panzi

      Funny, I’m from Austria and got the DVD on the 23rd, much earlier then weidenfels from Germany. But Germany is nearer to Netherlands than Austria. (It shares a boarder, Austria doesn’t.)

    • http://www.mountuponwingsofeagles.blogspot.com/ Mat

      Will the HD version not be available for download?

    • http://pterandon.blogspot.com Greg M. Johsnon

      I just got that DVD case as pictured there in the mail yesterday. Q: Will the electronic release mentioned above contain the same data as is on the DVD’s I got?

    • Jmh1

      Vids have been up on Youtube for the past 2 days, but I’m still looking forward to the official release in all its Hi-Def glory :)

    • jayh

      I pre-ordered a long time ago but am still waiting here in the USA for my disc :(

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      Schlops: Funny, it arrived TODAY (Amsterdam -> Sundern = 8 days)… pretty descriptive of the current state of society that a letter needs 8 days for 300 km :)

    • Zimbloggy

      Will there be a torrent link on the website?

    • Gryphon

      @blenderman345:
      The DVDs are going to have all kinds of information on them, if I recall correctly. Multiple versions / resolutions of the movie, interviews, tutorials, blend files, etc. Probably tomorrow there’ll be download links and torrents for each movie resolution (without the extras) on the Peach blog, like there used to be for Elephant’s Dream on the <a href=”http://www.orange.blender.org/” target=”blank”Orange blog. No sixteen MB for us!

    • http://drmad.org drmad

      It is time? What time is it there??? :-)

    • http://www.ubuntu.com Socceroos

      I’m from Australia too (Tassie actually) and I haven’t received my DVD either. I pre-ordered it yonks ago.

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      I should still buy the DVD…..
      good job blender foundation…. Soon we will put Maya and Max out of business!
      2.46 is AWESOME!

      open source is the way to go!

    • http://lubrio.blogspot.com Lubrio

      Friday the 30th, and still nothing :(

    • greenboy

      Woowhoo. Got my DVD today. All the way in sunny California :)

    • http://pitel.borec.cz Pitel

      11.07 AM in Czech Republic, and still nothing…

    • not_me

      hei,do you guys know that others have already made it available online, even in high quality,
      I downloaded the movie already a few days ago, you can find it by googling : “big buck bunny 1280×720 stereo”

    • Incredulous Yak

      Uh-oh, BBB website is doing a 404 on me.

    • Incredulous Yak

      EEEK! Something’s happening!

    • MrNoodle

      It shows me this picture of the bunny :)

      http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2649/evolutionmu8.jpg

    • Schlops

      @intrr: Mine arrived yesterday, too. :)

    • http://darsam.spaces.live.com DramaKing

      Huh, so it should be out already? I hope the BF found enough mirrors :) Of course a torrent would probably be slower, anyway.

    • Slurp

      Sorry guys: I expected more!!
      Some Details show that not every detail is 3D and the movie is a addition of a couple of people working on it.
      So its not homogen.

    • CGcrazy

      Blender is functionally probably state of the art.
      But BBB ist not!
      When will Blender have artists working on it and not programmers??

    • http://www.home.com vatslav

      YBIwt6 hi! nice site!

    • http://dogseatfood.org Kirby Deardorff

      Great website. Thank you! see you be back here soon.