The movie itself is a blast, and really well done. But I’m fairly certain this book is the one Chris keeps referencing, and hearing more projects like Blender and Big Buck Bunny gets my gears going from a “what’s the future look like” angle. I added it to my Amazon account, but just haven’t pulled the trigger on getting more reading material, as my time hasn’t been too conducive to reading lately. It’s akin to, say, a group of folks bandying together, raising funds, and then purchasing MS Word… and making it free for anyone in the world to use.Īdditionally, the animation was released using a Creative Commons license, and all the animation files are available.Ĭhris has been talking a lot about The Wisdom of Crowds at work, and I really need to get this book and add it to my to-read list. Learning that really sort of blew me away. I found out that this animation was made using Blender – an application that used to be commercial, but which was then purchased by the open source community and released under the GNU General Public License. She came over to my computer, and we watched it together, laughing through almost all of it. On seeing it mentioned today on BoingBoing… I fired it up before heading out to do some errands with Liz.
I downloaded Big Buck Bunny a few days back, but haven’t paused long enough to really sit down and watch it.
