It's a bit late, but I'd like to congratulate the folks over at the Blender Foundation for recent success with their animated short Big Buck Bunny. Released back in March, the film is being released online under the non-restrictive Creative Commons Attribution licence as a means to widely demonstrate the free open-source 3D animation software Blender. I think this really goes to show that in many cases free, open-source software is equal if not superior to commercial off the shelf solutions.
