[Gllug] Big Buck Bunny 1080p

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 01:55:16PM +0100, Gary Pownall wrote:
> 
> On 11 May 2011, at 11:47, - Tethys wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Gary Pownall <gary.pownall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Fpund this gorgeous animation on youtube based on opensource software: Blender, Gimp and Ubuntu.  Absolutely fabulous in 1080.
> > 
> > If by Ubuntu you mean Solaris, then yes, you're right :-) Because it's
> > published under an open license, BBB tends to be used for benchmarking
> > video compression algorithms.
> > 
> > Tet
> 
> In the credits it clearly states Ubuntu.

It does indeed, but seems to imply that this is what the designers ran
Blender on.  The film was rendered on a network of Sun servers
(http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/our-renderfarm-and-how-it-works/).
Nowadays one would call it a "cloud".  Sun donated the time, which is
just as well considering how expensive both clouds and Sun servers
are.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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