Passed in Their Sleep: What happens to Bunny.The Mourning After: Bunny is shown to be deeply affected by her husband's death.Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: No dialogue.The Grim Reaper: The moth becomes this, leading the bunny's soul into the afterlife.The bunny winds up going into the light just as the moth does. Go into the Light: The moth being attracted to light eventually becomes symbolic of death.Becomes something far darker after the bunny goes into the oven. Halfway Plot Switch: Mostly physical humor regarding the bunny's battle with the moth in the first half.Early-Installment Weirdness: This somber, elegiac short film does not match up well with the madcap antics of the Ice Age sequels or most of the rest of the Blue Sky canon.Dying Dream: According to Word of God, Bunny dies after she dozes off.Bittersweet Ending: The main character passes on, but she and her late husband are finally together.A moth fluttering into her and being attracted towards her lights is symbolic of death and when the bunny enters the afterlife, her spirit sprouts the wings of a moth. Animal Motifs: Aside from the obvious fact that the main character is an anthropomorphic rabbit, her mortality is symbolized through moth imagery.Tom Waits himself sings the song over the end credits. The short itself is available as a bonus feature on the first Ice Age's DVD. Winning Best Animated Short film at the 1998 Academy Awards, Bunny was the first film produced by Blue Sky Studios, best known for the Ice Age series. She sets the timer and falls asleep-and very odd things begin to happen. The bunny eventually knocks the moth into the cake batter, which she then chucks into the stove. She is especially annoyed when the moth bumps into her wedding picture (her husband has apparently died sometime in the backstory). She is baking a cake, but she is being bothered by a persistent moth that keeps flitting about the light in her kitchen. The gift honors Wedge’s fondness for Purchase-a place he credits for helping to build the foundation for his enormously successful career.Bunny is a 1998 animated short film directed by Chris Wedge and produced by Blue Sky Studios.Īn elderly bunny lives alone in her cabin in the woods. Their generous donation is helping to fund the renovation of the film sound stage in the music building. He recently completed his first live action/hybrid film Monster Trucks, released in 2017.Ī long-time supporter of the college, Wedge and his wife, Jeanne Markel ’81 (visual arts), donated a major gift to the School of Film and Media Studies in 2017. He directed Epic, which was released in 2013. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, and the global hits Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Ice Age: Continental Drift. He was executive producer of Ice Age: The Meltdown, Dr. Wedge went on to direct Blue Sky’s first two computer-animated feature films, Ice Age (nominated for an Oscar® in the category Best Animated Feature Film) and Robots. He wrote and directed Blue Sky’s first film, Bunny, which won more than 25 international awards for animation excellence, including an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1998. Wedge also holds an MA in Computer Graphics/Art Education from Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. He started his career in computer animation at MAGI/Synthavision, where he animated key sequences for the 1982 cult classic, TRON. As co-founder and vice president of creative development of Blue Sky Studios, FOX, Wedge is the driving force behind the rise of Blue Sky Studio’s prominence as one of the most respected computer animation studios in the world. Chris Wedge ’81 was honored by Purchase College with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009.
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