Wire Cutters [Animated Short] by Jack Anderson

A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet.

Created By: Jack Anderson
Original Score By: Cody Bursch
Sound Design By: Jackie! Zhou
Additional Animation: Jen Re, Erica Robinson, Hunter Schmidt, Justine Stewart, Jacqueline Yee
Additional FX: Danny Corona, Matthew Robillard, Tim Trankle
Cloud FX: Chase Levin
Colorist: Bryan Smaller
Rigging: Katelyn Roland
Advisor: Bill Kroyer

[codymartinson]

Moral of the story: give your smashing robot a scanner, and your scanning robot a smasher.

[Jovian]

This is an awesome analogue to our reality. Greed over the most trivial things can have catastrophic consequences. Great short in all aspects.

[Mrstealth]

And that's why its always a good idea having a power cable adaptor with you.

[BuddieGui]

Team work makes the dream work until someone gets greedy. Then, everyone looses.

Wicked video!!

[Virtually_Char]

That's why when you're in the position of control you should always chose to be giving. The smaller robot was already finding stones much faster with the help of the big one, so it was a huge error to risk it all for one little extra.

[bumfie]

Came back to this years later . Still a VERY good piece of art + Great story with a nugget at the end . Thank you Jack

[stb]

the moral of the story is that standardization of equipment is very important. everyone should've chosen betamax over vhs. wakka wakka

[bigbuba]

Thats why you should always have a spare wind catching solar panel

[xThirdOpsx]

The story was really good :)
A bit sad the ending :(
Really nice work!

[leonc]

This is absolutely beautiful, I’m blown away by the animation and visual story telling. I can only imagine how painstakingly long this took to create! Soo good

[BatFlightThylacine]

That whole confrontation at the end could have easily been avoided if they just left the stone there until they mined more so they could equal it out.

Edit: 7 years later and I'm still getting replies to this comment. At this rate I'll be dead and people will *still* be replying.

[lisfree]

Такая потрясающая анимация была сделана 8 лет назад, этот человек был восхитителен в своём деле. Жаль что он ушёл

[thTimeLord]

You leave the rock there until you get another odd set, tada. I should be a lawyer.

Cheers, good work. When we got to see the cable up close it looked phenomenal. Looked good, fun story.

[grizzlybearmc]

Ladies and gentlemen this is why we should standardise all charging ports

[kaytlinjustis]

In a way, it reminds me of a childhood story of a happy dog because he was given a bone. One day, he comes across a river of a lake and sees another dog holding its own bone. In his greed, the dog thinks he can just take the other dog's bone. But when he opens his mouth, he drops his own bone because the 'other dog' was only a reflection. The morale is that you should be thankful for what you have, otherwise you may wind up with nothing. These robots paint a very similar picture, so thank you for the story and animation! ^^

[kennycurran]

A simple and wonderful illustration of how our differences could be a blessing to one another, if it weren't for the cancer of greed.
It would be great if they could show content like this in our elementary schools.

[asoawrahman]

A very nice story, that speaks for itself, when look from the technological perspective, you see that the first robot uses clean energy (wind-power) and also equipped with functional robot-arm, and lenses for the eyes, while the second robot uses nuclear energy which is radioactive, they focused more on power and longevity of the robot, not the functionality. It show case that these two technologies were made by one creater(Human).
Our knowledge and power to build the future, only works when we collaborate with each other, and share our power and technologies as a HUMAN beings!!

[DanHaddock]

That was a masterpiece in strorytelling as well as well crafted animation. Keep up the great work man, you got massive potential.

[heidilane]

The little robot’s face and eyes are so expressive! Loved it!

[auroralong]

This really made me think. it was kind of predictable that they would eventually get an odd number but i didn't predict the ending, loved it