Along the way, the film has also become a blueprint on how to create open movies, and how open-source development and art can benefit from each other. “Big Buck Bunny,” the story of a gentle, giant rabbit who loves flowers and butterflies as much as he hates bullies, has been viewed more than 70 million times on YouTube alone.īut beyond animation-loving audiences, “Big Buck Bunny” has also had an outsized effect on the online video industry: It’s been used for everything from video codec development to testing Netflix’s streaming service. In 2007, tasked with making an animated movie that encompassed both descriptions, a small team of creatives began working on a short film that ended up becoming one of the most popular open-source film projects of all time. It all started with a simple tag line: furry and funny.
