Big Buck Bunny builds a better Blender

"Big Buck Bunny is the colorful product of the Peach open movie project: an animated short released online and on DVD. But in addition to the 'toon itself, Peach has produced an altogether different yield: improvements to the Blender 3-D modeling application."


http://www.linux.com/feature/139454


http://www.blendernation.com/2008/06/06/an-animation-using-a-big-buck-bunny-character/