When the Day Breaks

When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short film by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby from the year 1999.

Action

The day starts. A cock goes shopping after breakfast. Lady pig Ruby noticed during the potato peeling, that she has no more milk at home, and also goes shopping. At the door of the grocery store she bumps into the faucet and a lemon falls out of his shopping bags in drains. In the shop Ruby finally hears the sound of a car accident - the run-over, dead rooster is carried away when Ruby comes from the store.

Back to home draws Ruby shut down the blinds to the gloomy town. About the plug of the current kettle when showing their connection to the rest of the city. The current of the socket allows a cow to iron on electricity the lamp, the path leads to a phoning rabbits, other animals watching TV in his room. A goat shaves listening to the radio, the wastewater leads to the lemon of the cock in the sewer and from there to the leaky faucet in the house of the dead rooster. This is still the half-eaten toast. About the Toaster the connection goes to Ruby's Kettle, where now the water is boiling. Ruby pulls the plug, located brews coffee and eating her breakfast - potato skins in milk. You can up the blinds, it's broad daylight.

Production

Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis had met in 1985 at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in British Columbia. Both worked for about four years to When the Day Breaks, which was animated consuming. First, both filmed the scenes in Hi8, copied it on video and printed the individual frames on thermal paper, which in turn was copied. The individual images were finally drawn directly on the copies with oil paint.

The songs in the movie are sung by Martha Wainwright and Chaim Tannenbaum.

Awards

When the Day Breaks has won numerous international awards, including the Palme d'Or at the International Film Festival of Cannes in the category " Best Short Film" and the Cristal d' Annecy Festival of Animation d' Annecy, excellent.

When the Day Breaks in 2000 was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against The Old Man and the Sea itself.