Rise and Shine

Rise and Shine
Season	2
Episode	2
Publisher	Blizzard Entertainment
Release date	August 24, 2017
Link	YouTube
Transcript	Transcript
Length	9:59
Previous short	Infiltration
Next short	Honor and Glory

Rise and Shine is the seventh animated short for Overwatch, and the second episode of season 2.

Description

Rise and Shine follows Mei, and her robot Snowball, as Mei is awakened from the cryostasis she and her colleagues are forced to go under after they missed on a resource refill because of a polar storm that occured on Ecopoint: Antarctica.

Featured characters

Group picture seen on the computer screen

• Mei
• Snowball
• Winston (On-screen recording)
• Mei's colleagues (one partly on-screen, all pictured)

Featured locations

• Ecopoint: Antarctica

Trivia

Commemorative poster illustrated by Jungah Lee

• Mei's Summer Games pajamas were also depicted in her Anniversary spray.
• Rise and Shine is the longest Overwatch animated short to date, beating Dragons by nearly two minutes.
• The Overwatch Cinematics team made a poster for the short. It was illustrated by Jungah Lee, and it references the theatrical poster for the film The Martian, which follows an astronaut stranded alone on Mars with no way of contacting Earth.
• Winston's broadcast on Are You With Us? is played on the Overwatch emergency frequency at this cinematic.
• Mei's skins featured in this short are Ecopoint Antartica and Pajamei.
• Using the power of the base, Hair Dryer, Water Cooler, a jar of jam and a can of Whipped Cream. Mei creates her endothermic Blaster. Which in debut uses its primary attack.