{"id":6672,"date":"2018-12-07T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T23:51:19","slug":"day-night-the-pixar-short-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/day-night-the-pixar-short-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Day & Night \u2013 The Pixar Short Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDay & Night\u201d is the much-loved Pixar short that played before Toy Story 3 <\/em>in 2010, and it still stands as one of the most unique shorts in the studio\u2019s history.
\nIt explores the inspired 2D-3D world of Day and Night \u2013 two polar opposite characters with, to begin with, a total lack of empathy for each other. The short opens with a fully 3D animated scene, and the audience is lulled into a false sense of familiarity: Pixar does 3D animation! This is what we\u2019ve all come to expect (the genius Ratatouille <\/em>short \u201cYour Friend the Rat\u201d is a clear exception here, along with lots of creative credits scenes). This is where \u201cDay & Night\u201d hits us with the first of many clever surprises \u2013 this 3D world we\u2019ve been looking at is all inside not one, but two 2D animated characters. Inside Day are sunny fields, bright mornings and singing birds, while inside Night are moonlit meadows, glinting stars and chirping crickets.
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\nThese two characters live in the same world \u2013 in fact, the entire short only uses a single camera \u2013 but the \u201cDay & Night\u201d crew managed to pull off this seamless day-night contrast between scenes inside each of the characters. They live in the same world, but they see it so differently. It\u2019s only as they discover more about each other that they begin to see the beauty in their opposite\u2019s perspective. This is such <\/em>an important message \u2013 one that can apply to absolutely everyone who\u2019s had the joy of watching the short.
\nThere are so many things to appreciate about \u201cDay & Night\u201d: the particularly relevant message, the knitting together of wildly different animation techniques, the use of sound\u2026 Initially, director Teddy Newton wanted to use only natural sounds to create the soundtrack of the film, but eventually Michael Giacchino was enlisted to compose music for it too. The music was only used where music would naturally be \u2013 playing on a radio on the beach, or blasting out of Las Vegas casinos.
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There are so many smart visual and audio gags in “Day and Night” – ducks quacking to mimic laughter, squeaky bicycle wheels to imitate Day rubbing his eyes. Here, Night is hanging off a cliff edge.<\/p><\/div>
\nThe finale to \u201cDay & Night\u201d is perhaps what sticks with people the most \u2013 Day and Night are distracted by a radio broadcast, which is a snippet from a Dr Wayne Dyer (author and motivational speaker) lecture.<\/p>\n

\u201cFear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on \u2026 if something is new, I reject it immediately because it\u2019s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe are the most mysterious.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s after hearing this recording that Day and Night finally understand the beauty in one another\u2019s world views \u2013 it\u2019s people\u2019s differences that make our world so full of wonder. A synchronised sunrise and sunset show that Day and Night may be very different, but it’s still possible to connect with one another.
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\nIn the commentary for \u201cDay\u00a0& Night\u201d from director Teddy Newton and Camera Polisher and Stereographer Sandra Karpman, Newton comments on the fact that many viewers\u2019 favourite part is when Day and Night almost seem to become <\/em>each other and switch places. He explains that they don\u2019t turn into each other. \u201cThey\u2019re still who they are. They\u2019re still the same person. It\u2019s just that the thing inside them has changed. They come out of the experience seeing the world in a new way, empathising with the other\u2019s world view.\u201d
\nThat\u2019s a pretty brilliant message to be putting out there.
\nSome fun facts:<\/p>\n

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  • Director Teddy Newton would hear this recording of Dr Wayne Dyer while he was growing up because his mother owned an audio recording of one of his lectures. He felt the quote so perfectly fit the theme of \u201cDay & Night\u201d and it couldn\u2019t not <\/em>be included.<\/li>\n
  • Pixar treated Dr Wayne Dyer to a screening of \u201cDay\u00a0& Night\u201d as a way of saying thank you.<\/li>\n
  • Initially, Newton came up with the idea of a keyhole character with the 3D world inside it. In the end, he decided the characters needed to be more mobile to be able to tell a story, so the keyhole concept gradually evolved into the walking and (kind of) talking Day and Night characters that we see now.<\/li>\n
  • Newton lent his voice to Chatter Telephone in Toy Story 3 <\/em>and Mini Buzz in the Toy Story Toon \u201cSmall Fry\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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