Big Buck Bunny sighting: Google Nexus S Phone

Bart · December 8, 2010

This one has been flooding our inbox: the webpage for Google’s new Nexus S Phone shows the Big Buck Bunny trailer to illustrate the ‘Entertainment on the Go’ section.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

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Milad Thaha

8 December 2010 at 07:22

Go Blender, GO!

Pawel

8 December 2010 at 09:08

Yes, nice, but maybe we should stop those sightings, what do you think? It looks a bit like jumping at every scrap of news that is somehow Blender-related, as if the community had serious self-esteem issues :)
“You know, my uncle mentioned Blender when he was shaving” ;)
I mean it’s fun and all, but maybe it should no longer make the headlines here. Let’s have our “dignity” :)
Blender is pretty-well known already, we need not get excited over every bit of acknowledgement that it exists. I wonder if I’m alone in this sentiment?

Alex

8 December 2010 at 09:13

@Pawel I understand where you’re coming from. I find the sightings interesting though, as it mainly shows where the open content created by the Blender Foundation is used. It seems like when it comes to “free” full HD content the Blender movies are very popular!

Grandmaster B

8 December 2010 at 10:28

Here is Proog Elephants Dream in the first video at 16:20 with realtime “lip-sync”:
http://away3d.com/

Daniel

8 December 2010 at 11:00

Big ‘Bug’ Bunny?

Always cool to see BBB pop up!

epima

8 December 2010 at 12:05

@Daniel
yeah, nice catch ;-)

Lucas

8 December 2010 at 12:38

Please correct the title. He’s not Bugs Bunny :/

Eages

8 December 2010 at 12:39

A Google phone uses blender movies in it’s advertisements!? SOLD!

Middlefinger

8 December 2010 at 13:43

@Daniel Lol didn’t notice that

Jens

8 December 2010 at 21:49

Big “Bug” Bunny is a name given to a bug in a crappy german tablet PC (Wetab) where, after a software update, every user video on the device was replaced with the Big Buck Bunny video.

Markus

8 December 2010 at 22:01

@Pawel I want this kind of news… this shows how good open content is for all of industry and us – everybody that wants to use it can do so without asking. Try this with Micky Mouse and I’m sure you get a law suit after just one minute after you publish…

Moolah

9 December 2010 at 00:08

Actually this “bug context” isn’t so funny! It may be funny between a game (or a program) creators when they are talking about their OWN creature and their well known issues. But not this. It’s a crap reference that a free software must be full of bugs – not a commercial one. EVERY software is full of bugs in the middle of a development, especially.
So it’s not about licensing – it’s about slander.
Guys who have a free time to write few words to those crappy jokers – you may ask them to remove such pics with bad names. It’s not a big deal but if you want to harras some idiots – I think that you may do it with a clear conscience.

blendNmix

9 December 2010 at 02:20

Pawel: +10

Tynach

10 December 2010 at 00:31

Anyone notice that it says that BBB is ‘Coming Soon’?

Joey

11 December 2010 at 12:38

Haha on a other mobile device XD

I also saw BBB on the Archos Android tablets in Big Buy when i was over in America.
Got a video somewhere

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