Big Buck Bunny (nome in codice Peach) è un cortometraggio animato del Blender Institute, parte della Blender Foundation.Come il precedente film della fondazione Elephants Dream è un film a contenuto aperto. Il lavoro di un piccolo team di sette animatori reclutati nella comunità Blender di artisti 3D, è iniziato nell'ottobre 2007, e il film è stato ufficialmente pubblicato il 10 aprile 2008, debuttando ad Amsterdam. Il download del film e dei contenuti è stato reso disponibile il30 maggio 2008.

The film tells the story of Emo and Proog, two people with different visions of the surreal world in which they live. Viewers are taken on a journey through that world, full of strange mechanical birds, stunning technological vistas and machinery that seems to have a life of its own.

The film follows a girl named Sintel who is searching for a baby dragon she calls Scales. A flashback reveals that Sintel found Scales with its wing injured and helped care for it...

“Tears of Steel” is a short film made in Amsterdam the Netherlands by the Blender Institute, well known for realizing the open source short animation movies “Big Buck Bunny” (2008) and “Sintel” (2010). As usual these films get financing by crowd-funding in online communities of 3D artists and animators. For “Tears of Steel” the funding target was to explore a complete open source pipeline for producing a high quality visual effect film, with as theme “Science Fiction in Amsterdam”.