Day & Night (2010 film)
Day & Night is a animated short film from 2010 by director Teddy Newton for Pixar Animation Studios and the Walt Disney Company. The film was shown as a supporting film of Toy Story 3.
Action
Day is a cartoon character on the body surface to play scenes in daylight. If Day changed its position, the projection changes on his body. Night is a same figure, on the body surface to Play Scenes at night. Both figures show about the scenes and their emotions, which they emphasize their respective actions indicated in addition. The characters themselves do not speak, but operate pantomime, which is enhanced by music and sounds of the projections.
Day met the Night sleeping during a walk. For abstraction Day projects a sun and a moon night, including a small sheep jumping over a fence. After Night of Day was awakened, both marvel at the other. Whatever the one projected on to show up the other as opposing scene. For example, Day shows a woman sunbathing on the beach, while Night shows the same scene at night, with no wife, but with little waste as a legacy.
Both dam on aggression and it comes to a slugfest in which there is no winner. When they realize that, they start each show off their best scenes, providing in each other with great enthusiasm. In a radio broadcast of the projection you can hear the profound message of the film: " Everything that is new, I reject, because it scares me ."
They embrace it as sunset comes at night to sunrise and at Day. The six suns of both characters meet and appear together for a moment. Night then changes into day and day into night. Both rejoice and start the best scenes in the other to project onto itself.
Background
- The radio voice spoken in the original by Wayne Dyer is spoken in the German version of Claus Brockmeyer.
- In contrast to previous short films from Pixar, Day & Night is a combination of 2D and 3D film elements. Where the cartoon characters in 2D, the projected figures in the scenes, however, are animated in 3D. According to a statement by production designer Don Shank it differs from anything Pixar has ever made.
- The film was shown along with the premiere of Toy Story 3 for the first time on June 18, 2010 in the cinemas of the USA and Canada.
Awards
Day & Night was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2010 for Best Animated Short.