"The Present" has been capturing the heart of its viewers since its release in 2014. Ever since then, it has garnered 59 film awards and its creators are getting job offers from animation companies like Disney and Pixar.

The story is as simple as its title.

The boy, the main character, is no different than any other boy - playing video games with intensity and concentration, getting annoyed at his mother when she gives him a present of a dog with one leg during his video game playing - but it is only at the end of this film that we see that our "normal" impression of this boy is nothing but wrong - there's more to him than any one would expect.

Originally, this animation was a graduation project made by Jacob Frey and Markus Kranzler while they were students at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Since its release, the artists have been offered jobs at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, respectively.

Also, their project received numerous accolades - 59, to be exact - from multiple countries including the U.S., Canada, Portugal amongst others.

This short is absolutely adorable. Watch it yourself!

The first time I had ever watched this video I felt nothing short of stunned. I had read an article that gave me a pretext of the video before hand (similar to how the beginning of this article is). The ending haunted me to the core, not because it was particularly scary or anything but because I felt I should have figured that that particular ending would have played out.

After seeing this, I understand why these men were recruited into their highly respected animation studios. This short emulates the type of stories that Pixar and Disney have been trying to expose to the public: a story so simple that it is kid-friendly and adorable but presents a big and universal message.

Take "Inside Out" for example. That movie blew my mind because of how simply they carried out this story of different emotions running through an adolescent's mind and made sense of complicated life problems in the scene towards the end (*SPOILER* DO NOT READ THE REST OF THE PARAGRAPH IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN "Inside Out" YET) where Riley realizes that sadness needs to be felt in order for happiness, or joy in the movie's case, to really shine through in a person's life. That was just absolutely mind blowing.

Anyway, "The Present" rings the theme of deceiving appearances and how, at times, it is better to look past the "flaws" and focus on what really matters. Another theme that also shines through in this short is that everyone on this planet should heavily consider having a puppy in their home, or any other domesticated pet for that matter!