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.
