Big Buck Bunny Sighted at Disney

Bart · July 28, 2010

Michael wrote: “I saw a screenshot of Big Buck Bunny at the new Disney Research Institute in Zurich! The sighting is from Euronews”.

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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COOOooooool!!!!

28 July 2010 at 06:11

COOOooooool!!!! I wonder if they knew what they were looking at…

Maybe it will inspire them to make better movies. ;D

dominik

28 July 2010 at 07:39

What??? Disney?

Disney = PIXAR

PIXAR = Awesome Animation Movies (Maybe the best ones)

Disney uses BBB??? :-D AWESOME

iCandy 3D

28 July 2010 at 08:27

Nice to see BBB is still famous all around the world :P recently I saw BBB too for less than a second in the Adobe Photoshop CS5 demovideo

iCandy 3D

28 July 2010 at 08:28

*it was the adobe Flash CS5 demovideo ^.^

Teragone

28 July 2010 at 08:30

Better….

Disney uses Blender :-D

daniele

28 July 2010 at 08:48

it looks like bbb is from disney. I don’t like this

trayrace

28 July 2010 at 09:45

i was there for one day and they just showed their realtime seam carving/video retargeting software working with big buck bunny… probably the researchers just like the movie :)

mutze

28 July 2010 at 09:52

BBB and Ed Catmull in the same video… that is cool :-)

Lasse R. Bruntse

28 July 2010 at 10:56

Coooool! Blender Foundation have achieved much fame with BBB!

toontje

28 July 2010 at 11:45

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?

txrx

28 July 2010 at 11:54

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 :)

LOGAN

28 July 2010 at 12:19

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.

DMRadford

28 July 2010 at 21:10

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

perpetual

28 July 2010 at 22:37

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

DoubleZ

29 July 2010 at 16:16

@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.

meltingman

29 July 2010 at 23:01

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?

Frank N. Blunt

30 July 2010 at 14:25

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.

Bart

30 July 2010 at 14:32

Remember: don’t feed the troll, people!

ChicOrtiz

31 July 2010 at 17:43

@Mutze:

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

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