At the last moment, Frank grabs onto what he believes is the branch of a small tree, but discovers it is just a twig Bunny is holding over the spikes.

[11][12] As in Elephants Dream, Blender developers worked extensively to improve the software in accordance with the needs of the movie team.

[17] High-resolution, stereoscopic, high-frame-rate versions of the film were released in 2013 by Janus Kristensen's Big and Ugly Rendering Project running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing platform.

The main character (called Big Buck Bunny) was also used in short films created by Studio Lumikuu and Renderfarm.fi: What is Renderfarm.fi?

(2011) telling about the advantages of render farms and BBB loves CC (2012) promoting Creative Commons licences.

[20] Frank the flying squirrel is also the player character in the Blender Institute's 2009 video game Yo Frankie!.

Big Buck Bunny is commonly used to test video playback since it is royalty-free as well as being bright and colorful.