She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. Crawling inside, she finds herself face-to-face with 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 a blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Eventually, she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly and angrily 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. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. Plot īunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. Influenced by the classic Uncle Wiggily illustrations by Lansing Campbell, the short features the music of Tom Waits.īunny won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1998 as well a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica. It was featured on the original 2-disc special edition DVD release of Ice Age from 2002 and the 2006 "Super-Cool Edition" re-release to coincide with the release of Ice Age: The Meltdown. Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: The bunny sprouts wings (like a moth) as it flies off into the light.Bunny is a 1998 American computer-animated short film by Chris Wedge and produced by Blue Sky Studios.Together in Death: The wedding picture of the bunny and her husband comes to life as they embrace each other, meaning that they are together in the afterlife.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.
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.
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