The rodents amuse themselves by harassing helpless creatures of the forest by throwing fruits, nuts and rocks at them.Īfter the deaths of two of Bunny's favorite butterflies (one by an apple falling on top of it and the other by Frank smashing it with a rock) and an offensive attack on Bunny himself, Bunny sets aside his gentle nature and orchestrates a complex plan to avenge the two butterflies.
The plot follows a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents, Frank (the leader of the rodents), Rinky and Gamera. The film was followed up with an open game titled Yo Frankie!, in August 2008. The film was officially released in an Appremière in Amsterdam while online movie downloads and files were released on May 30, 2008. It was released as an Open Source film under Creative Commons License Attribution 3.0. Like the foundation's previous film Elephants Dream, the film was made using Blender (software), a free software application for animation made by the same foundation.
Big Buck Bunny (code-named Peach) is a short Computer animation comedy film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation.
