


Bunny dies in her sleep, and the oven serves as a gateway to the afterlife. The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder the shadows and reflections of two moths play across the image as well.ĭuring his introduction to the film on the Ice Age DVD, Wedge offers his interpretation of these events. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. There is another book describing the Blue Sky approach to animation that. Crawling inside, she finds herself confronted by the moth and begins to float through an otherworldly space toward the source of the light, with a pair of giant moth wings sprouting from her back to propel her as the insect leads her along. She then sets the kitchen timer and falls asleep, only to be awakened by loud rumblings and blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Eventually she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly pours into a pan and shoves into the oven. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. 1999 Academy Award Winner Best Animated Short Baking alone in. He also voices Scrat in the film series, performing the character's 'squeaks and squeals. Wedge later directed Blue Sky Studios' first computer-animated film, 2002's Ice Age, and served as a producer for its sequels. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. In 1998, he won an Academy Award for the short animated film Bunny.

The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder the shadows and reflections of two moths play across the image as well.ĭuring his introduction to the film on the Ice Age DVD, Wedge offers his interpretation of these events. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. The website offers the following synopsis:īunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. It is featured on the Ice Age DVD released in 2002. It was released in 1998, 4 years before the release of the first Ice Age movie. He directed 2 other shorts over ten years earlier already, but his big breakthrough came with 'Bunny' and you may know him today because of his prolific work with the 'Ice Age' franchise.
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You can help Blue Sky Studios Wiki by expanding it.īunny is the first short film released by Blue Sky Studios. 'Bunny' is a 1998 7-minute movie that won an Academy Award in the 'Best Animated Short Film' category.
