Comments on: Big Buck Bunny Sighted at Disney

By: ChicOrtiz

ChicOrtiz — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:43:47 +0000

@Mutze:

Yay! Fully agree! Awesome. What a Honor for Blender Community! :)

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:32:25 +0000

Remember: don’t feed the troll, people!

By: Frank N. Blunt

Frank N. Blunt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:25:03 +0000

No offense, BBB is vulgar. Disney should have better taste but even more so these days it is a point not worth disputing. Though Disney does have its dubious history, regardless, if it brings in cash or publicity then it wouldn’t matter anyway. After all, it’s only a stupid cartoon. Have at it.

By: meltingman

meltingman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:01:52 +0000

hahaha I love this news. MDR.
vive le libre même Disney y trouves son compte :-P.

perhaps on day the BBB II made in Disney?

By: DoubleZ

DoubleZ — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:16:17 +0000

@perpetual : Why they need to do that ? Actually, BBB is under the less restrictive CC license (only “attribute”). In this case, BBB is just used to realize some tests and it was not supposed to be shared.

By: perpetual

perpetual — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:37:23 +0000

I wonder if they had the Blender’s Foundation permission for it or does the Creative Commons License let them use it.

By: DMRadford

DMRadford — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:10:22 +0000

I agree with daniele, it makes it look like BBB is a Disney project in the works. However, they mention that the reason they chose that facility was because of its “open environment”… so it makes sense sort of… a little bitter-sweet though.

-David

By: LOGAN

LOGAN — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:19:17 +0000

I came across a less exiting and older BBB appearance in the Dutch magazine: “FOTO magazine.info” from 2009 in an article about image formats for the web.

By: txrx

txrx — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:54:03 +0000

Seems that this popularity of BBB and elephant’s dream in the CG dev community is part borne from two things.

The first is that it’s cool looking footage, rendered and copyright free so they don’t have to ask permission to use it (unlike if they used another production/studio’s IP etc).

Secondly, it’s almost like acknowledgement in various places that people know blender exists and what it does and is capable of. If I could get away with firing in BBB in a tech demo I’d be glad to.

Nice sighting :)

By: toontje

toontje — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:45:01 +0000

That’s very ironic since they have a complete library of world class animations of which they own the copyright. Why use BBB? Or are they confused?