Sunday (cartoon)

Sunday morning. The boy stands near the railway tracks , and then puts a coin on one of the rails and, when the train passes, raises it already become elongated and flat . At this time, his mother approaches him and takes him home, where he prepares for Sunday's campaign in the church. After the service, when they begin to collect donations, the boy puts his flat coin in an envelope and puts it to other donations. After the service, the family goes to visit their relatives. Adults talk to each other and pay no attention to the raven who croak outside, or to the boy. He is bored, he watches her grandmother make fish soup, and then he notices that the bear’s head hanging on the wall in the living room doesn’t look so dead.

He leaves the house, walks around him and sees that the bear’s head in the wall of the house is not a trophy , but a living bear stuck in the window. The boy again goes to the railway and puts on the way a coin that he took from his grandfather’s trouser pocket while he was sleeping on the sofa in the living room. Bear, hearing the sound of the train, breaks out of his trap and runs to the rails, and then sits on them. The boy tries to save him, but does not have time and the train runs into a bear. After the train is hiding, the boy goes to the rails and raises a coin from them. He sees that the image on her has changed: before that, on one of her sides was a bear, and on the second there was an image of a queen, now on one of them was a dead bear, and on the other he was, but stuck in the window of the house.

The boy puts the coin back, and then goes to the car of his parents, who are already waiting for him there and the whole family leaves home.

For Patrick Doyon, a cartoon artist from Montreal , Sunday was the first professional work ^[3] . Prior to this, Doyon created only a three-minute cartoon “Square Roots” in 2006, while studying in one of the programs of the Canadian Public Service of Cinematography for beginner animators ^[4] .

The cartoon was created using hand-drawn animation technology using computer animation . Before starting computer processing, I had to scan 15 boxes of sheets with drawn sketches. As a result, work on the painting lasted two years. In an interview, Doyon said that he used the technology of hand-drawn animation because he believes that such methods of creation help to better reflect emotions, and also that his childhood spent in one of the small cities of Quebec inspired him to create this cartoon ^{[5 ]} .

In 2012, the cartoon was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category , as well as an Annie Award in the same category ^{[6] [7]} . A year earlier, he received a special prize from the Berlin International Film Festival ^[8] and was nominated for the main prize at the Annecy International Film Festival ^[9] .

• Sunday (Fr.) on the site of the Canadian State Service of Cinematography
• Sunday on the Internet Movie Database