When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda ForbisThe Animation That Changed Me: Jérémy Clapin on ‘When The Day Breaks’|Cartoon Brew and featuring the voice of Canadian singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright singing the titular song.
Summary After witnessing an accidental death of a humanoid rooster, Ruby, a humanoid pig, seeks comfort from her everyday life in the city.Short of the Week
Technique To create the film, directors used pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel.When Rotoscoping Goes Very, Very Right|Animation Obsessive
Accolades Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999, the 9 min. 40 sec. film garnered numerous awards, including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short, the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, TIFF – Best Canadian Short, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Animated Short, Grand Prix for short film at Animafest Zagreb and the Banff Television Festival, Best Animation Program. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.Animation Show of ShowsWhen the Day Breaks, by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Preview) on Vimeo
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to another animated short produced in Montreal: Aleksandr Petrov's Old Man and the Sea.
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Excerpt on Acme Filmworks