Gumball Wars from Scott Thierauf on Vimeo.
One of my favourite pieces of animation is Pixar's Luxo Jr. which features the antics of an anthropomorphic anglepoise lamp and it's son. The reason I love it, is that the animators have managed to successfully humanise an inanimate object to the point where, with a tip of its lamp shade, or a wiggle of the stand, you can tell what Luxo Jr. is thinking and feeling.
In Gumball Wars, animator Scott Thierauf has managed to successfully create a similar anthropomorphic relationship between two gumball machines. The two childlike characters portrayed by the red and blue gumball machines have quite different characters, one teases, taunts and sniggers its way through the short and the other stoically takes it, until it's his turn to have a giggle.
As always, good things come to all who wait.
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Listening: Jack Peñate - Spit At Stars
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