The animation too. The project was codenamed "Project Peach", just like the previous one (who gave us the short movie "Elephants Dream") was codenamed "Project Orange" :
Elephants Dream and
Big Buck Bunny (which redirects to
Big Buck Bunny)
These are the two first free movies ever : free not only as in free beer, but also and mainly as in freedom. The movie is available to anyone, the movie sources are available to anyone, etc.
Both projects are responsible for a great improvements in Blender. It's no surprise than Blender leader, Ton Roosendaal, was producer for Big Buck Bunny.
There is a third project : not a movie this time, but a free video game :
Yo Frankie! - Apricot Open Game Project - Yo Frankie! - Apricot Open Game Blog, codenamed project Apricot (so
Yo Frankie! - Apricot Open Game Project - Yo Frankie! - Apricot Open Game Blog will redirect you to
Yo Frankie! - Apricot Open Game Project - Yo Frankie! - Apricot Open Game Blog)
(edit : take a look at links URLs, I can't put them with preventing vBulletin to replace them with website titles)