Day & Night

When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they discover each other’s unique qualities–and come to realize that each of them offers a different window onto the same world–the friendship helps both to gain a new perspective.

Release Date: June 18, 2010
Running Time: 5 minutes, 57 seconds

Cast
Day & Night

Credits
Music by: Michael Giacchino
Produced By: Kevin Reher
Written By: Teddy Newton
Directed by: Teddy Newton

Tidbits

This is the Teddy Newton’s first directorial effort with Pixar. You can find more info on Teddy on his Pixarian page.
The western movie showing at the Drive In is a homage to the TV show from Disney’s classic animated film, 101 Dalmatians.
Many of the background characters or “extras” can originally be seen in Pete Docter’s Up. This includes the joggers, the lumberjack (a variation on Tom, the constructor worker and the wolf (a variation on Alpha).
During the Drive In Theater sequence, the sign says TS3, the abbreviation for Toy Story 3.
The airplanes projected on Day are modeled after the Bell X-1 that famous pilot Chuck Yeager used to break the sound barrier.
Those cars during the Vegas scene look a lot like those seen in Cars.
Pixarian Doug Dooley handled all the CGI animation. Five animators worked on the 2D animation.
There were 29,888 frames inked, painted and exported from animation for the final versions of Day, Night and the special effects in the film.
The radio broadcast near the end is from a speech by Dr. Wayne Dyer. You can read much more about that quote in a previous post.
The Czech-language version of the short features a dubbed version of the radio broadcast voiced by former President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.
The Croatian-language version of the radio broadcast is voiced by the current President of Croatia, Ivo Josipovic.
Teddy Newton pitched the film using 3D storyboards and 3D glasses. For more tidbits, don’t miss my exclusive interview with writer/director Teddy Newton.