Why Big Buck Bunny Still Holds Up
An open movie from 2008 that remains a masterclass in comic timing.
Author
Sana Iqbal
10
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Motion designer who studies open movies frame by frame. Teaches an evening class on storyboarding and timing.
A Flower in Slow Motion
Eight seconds of CC0 footage and why we keep rewatching it.
Sintel, the Full Short, on a Rainy Sunday
Fifteen minutes of dragons, loss, and remarkable open-source craft.
Caminandes and the Economy of a Gag
A llama, a fence, and three minutes of perfect escalation.
Spring: Colour Script to Final Frame
How a colour script guides every shot of a short film.
Sintel in Full Resolution, Revisited
Returning to the Durian project’s trailer at 480p on a big screen.
The Bunny Trailer as a Lesson in Editing
Cut on action, hold on reaction, and never explain the joke.
Watching the Sintel Trailer Frame by Frame
What ninety seconds of a trailer can teach about pacing.
Agent 327 and Storyboarding for Action
Studying how a chase sequence is planned before a frame is rendered.
Tears of Steel and the Art of the Composite
Live action, green screen, and a lot of open-source compositing.