Made entirely with open source software. Modeling, animation, compositing, and editing were done with Blender 3D. Postpro and texturing in the Gimp.
This movie was made following the process of Open Source Software and was released under a Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license.
The movie was conceived and created by the Orange team over the course of about 6 months. The rendering alone required 125 days on a supercomputer farm comprising over 200 processors.
Winner of award for "Best Use of CGI with Linux/Open Source" at the UK Linux and Open Source Awards 2006. Losing nominees in this category were Dreamworks' Over the Hedge and Sony/Imageworks' Monster House.