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, a real juggler.

Premise

The film opens with a

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juggling a pack of

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(circle, square, cones, etc.) and showing the computer animation film the shapes and objects around the scene. As the version included in the DVDs and Blu-rays bonus material is taken straight from one of the company's demo reels, a

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logo is seen inside the green ball, which was not in the original short film. The film ends with the juggler vanishing the scene.

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* Computer animation {{compu-graphics-stub