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[[caption-width-right:324: A Bad Hare Day]]

A GentleGiant bunny who loves nothing better than watching the butterflies is harassed by a gang of nasty little critters, until he's [[BewareTheNiceOnes pushed too far]]...

The second short film from the Creator/BlenderFoundation after ''WesternAnimation/ElephantsDream'', made partly to drive development of Blender, an open-source 3-D authoring software package, and partly to showcase its capabilities. The plot is simple but the characters are quite charming and the whole thing is reminiscent of {{Creator/Pixar}} shorts of old.

This short is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, and is downloadable [[http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ here]] or [[http://www.archive.org/details/BigBuckBunny_328 here]]. Because it's free in all senses, and visually attractive, it's become a standard example clip for showing off what video players can do.
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!!''Big Buck Bunny'' provides examples of:

* AdorableEvilMinions: Granted, all three are fuzzy squirrels, but the chinchilla and red squirrel are cuddly and barely count as evil.
* AlliterativeName: '''B'''ig '''B'''uck '''B'''unny
* AllThereInTheScript: The Blender Cloud page reveals that the characters have names: the bunny is called JC, the red squirrel is Rinky, the chinchilla is Gamera (and also female), and the brown squirrel is Frankie.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Oh yes. When Buck snaps, he really goes all out for revenge.
* BigFun: Buck. As long as he's in a good mood.
* BigThinShortTrio: The [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel is the short one (not exactly short, but he is the smallest), the red squirrel is the thin one, and the chinchilla is the big one.
* BirdPoopGag: The very last shot of the video, [[TheStinger after the credits]], is a bird defecating onto [[spoiler:the flying squirrel kite]]. The video ends just before impact.
* BullyingADragon: Somehow, a trio of small animals thought it would be a good idea to torment a giant rabbit.
* ChasingAButterfly: Buck chases a butterfly before the squirrels attack and kill it.
* ComicallyCrossEyed: The red squirrel is cross-eyed and the stupidest of the squirrel trio.
* ComicTrio: A more serious variant. The [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel comes up with evil schemes, the red squirrel carries them out while acting stupid, and the chinchilla pretty much gets dragged along.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Buck is surprisingly competent when he's mad.
* CuteIsEvil: Who knew that cute-looking rodents would be so evil as to kill two butterflies and bully an innocent bunny ForTheEvulz?
* DeathTrap: Buck creates an [[DeathCourse entire course]] of them to teach the trio a lesson.
* TheDitz: The red squirrel.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The squirrel gang's leader deserves what he gets, but the red squirrel and chinchilla seem to take severe beatings for just following it.
* TheDogBitesBack: TheStinger at the end of the short. That bird that the [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel bullied (twice!) [[spoiler: defecates on his head]].
* GentleGiant: Big Buck Bunny. At first.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: The flying squirrel becomes used as Buck's kite. [[TheDogBitesBack And gets pooped on by the bird he bullied]]]].
* {{Jerkass}}: The [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel enjoys tormenting the wildlife a bit too much.
* LockAndLoadMontage: When Buck starts setting up the traps to get even with the squirrel gang.
* KickTheDog: The [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel knocking the bird out of the tree with an acorn. Twice. (The bird gets his revenge)
* MisplacedWildlife: One of the squirrel trio is a South American chinchilla in a short otherwise featuring European / North American fauna.
* RepeatCut: When the squirrel reveals he's a [[spoiler:''flying'' squirrel]].
* OhCrap: All villains have their BSOD moments.
* PrettyButterflies: Purple ones, which Buck likes. And then the squirrel trio had to kill them ForTheEvulz...
* RascallyRabbit: Buck may not look the part on first glance, but he can definitely be very cunning when the situation calls for it.
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler: Buck saves the flying squirrel from falling onto SpikesOfDoom... then uses him as a kite]].
* ScrewballSquirrel: The three rodents mercilessly torment Buck. The leader is a brown [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel who seems to be the planner behind the pranks, whereas the red squirrel clearly [[CloudCuckoolander has some screws loose]]. The third one, who is the least active of the trio, is notably not a squirrel but a chinchilla.
* ShoutOut: To ''Myth/RobinHood'': Several of Buck's traps.
* SlasherSmile: Buck flashes a very nice one to the [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel once he has it in his clutches.
* SpikesOfDoom: One of Buck's {{Death Trap}}s.
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The flying squirrel gets turned into Buck’s kite. And then the bird who the squirrel bulled twice in the film gets his revenge.]]
* TerribleTrio: The brown [[spoiler:flying]] squirrel, red squirrel and chinchilla.
* ThisMeansWarpaint: The montage of Buck building traps includes a shot of him applying black markings under his eyes.
* TookALevelInBadass: Buck really becomes badass after fleeing the squirrels - although he does take a break at one point to use a tripwire as a jump rope.
* WhiteBunny: Buck, the titular bunny.
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