The Nutcracker – by Sam Wilson (16)
Merry Christmas from The Familyman!!!
This animated short was created and animated by my son, Sam (16). Hope you enjoy it and may you have a wonderful Christmas with your family.
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Nice. What software did he use?
Animation Master
That was awesome!
This is as good or better than most of what I saw in my Computer Graphics course in college 🙂
Well done!
That is awesome! Is that a family portrait above the fireplace? I recognized Todd’s shirt. 🙂
Very cool – good job!
That is very awesome!! Great job Sam!!
I was only going to watch for a few seconds, but I watched the whole thing because it really drew me in! Great job with the graphics and actually telling a story — without words. Sam appears to be very talented!
Wow! That’s some serious talent. You should send this to Big Idea and see if they’re hiring for Veggie Tales movies!
Awesome. Great job!
Sam – that was too funny! You had my kids all gathered around my computer laughing their heads off!
Sam is very talented! That was fun to watch!
Great work Sam!
You did a great job!! Looking forward to more.
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That was fantastic Sam!
Great job Sam. Have you ever considered using animations to more clearly express the truths of the Bible? I have a couple very simple examples at:
visualwisdom.org
Wow! Nicely done. Keep up the great work.
That’s real talent. Would love to see more!
Amazing! My 12 year old can’t believe a 16 year old could do that! Keep up the great work!
Awesome job! I could not take the smile off my face while watching! 🙂
Great job! It had me watching until the end.
Great job. I enjoyed it.
That was great! My kiddos will be amazed!
That was great work and another way to introduce classical music to people that never give it a try!!!!!
That is some talent. Great short.
That was really cool. I’m impressed. My boys were laughing the whole time at the poor nutcrackers feeble attempts. Very cool animation and creativity. It’ll be interesting to see how the Lord uses this!
You ‘da kid!
You are truly amazing! This is awesome. I’m going to share this with my readers. I publish http://issuu.com/tellitonthemountain emagazine. It will be in the Christmas edition. Blessings to you, God bless!
I recommend Sam submits this to the National Film Festival for Talented Youth @ http://www.nffty.org – NFFTY is “the largest and most influential youth film festival in the world”. Also check out AutoDesk’s professional 3D animation software like 3Dmax and Maya – FREE for students to download. I’m just getting my 14 year old started on that.
Excellent,a really talented young man!
Would you like to share this on The Homeschool Channel?
-Paul
Paul,
We would love to do that…what do I need to do?
What an awesome job! My kids ask all the time why we can’t actually use the nutcracker. I’ll show them why.
Love it! Great job Sam. Are you going to start marketing Todd bobbleheads?
I watched this with my children and we all enjoyed it. Reminded me of Wiley Coyote or Scrat. Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.
Great Job! My kids and I enjoyed that so much!
VERY nicely done! My kids and I really enjoyed it. They begged to watch it twice. lol
So cool! Awesome ninja nutcracker
We LOVED this! Excellent animation and awesome laughs!! 🙂
That was fantastic! My kids loved it so much that they wanted to watch it again and again… Thanks for sharing it!
Loved it! My 9 year old son and I enjoyed it together!
We all thought it was really funny and my 6 year old wants to watch it every time I turn on the computer! My 9 year old likes when he gets smashed by the brick and my 11 year old likes when he lights himself on fire. Mommy liked it because that is often how she feels at the end of the day!!!
Great video! Very well done! Merry Christmas to all the Wilson Family!!
My 4 kids and I watched it today. We thought it was great! Too funny!!!
Love, love, LOVE IT! Great job, Sam!
That was very funny – the kids loved it! Well done 🙂
This is totally a new Christmas classic for my kids! They just saw The Nutcracker ballet, so they weren’t too excited to watch it, but they giggled like crazy through the whole thing! Please share it again next year.
That’s really funny! 🙂
Hilarious concept, Sam. I am going to show my kids tonight. They’re gonna love it.
Wow, great job! I can’t wait to show my kids! Merry Christmas!
Fantastic!
Great job Sam! My kids want to do this kind of thing. I’m going to show this to them. Keep it up!
Thanks so much! This had my five year old son rolling in laughter.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Looks like it should be a “short” for some Christmas movie. Well done!
That was wonderful. So funny. Pixar better watch out!
Funny but oh poor nutcracker!
Great amount of talent! Look forward to more productions!
Very entertaining; thanks!!
Awesome job!
I laughed so hard. It was great!
agree with everything everyone else said 🙂 Could it be sold to Pixar for a ‘Shorts’ ??? !!!!!!
Great job!!
Great job, Sam!!!!
So funny!
This was fantastic; sitting here watching alone but look forward to having my kiddos join me for the second watch.
My homeschool kids loved this, especially my eight year old son. I
wish I could share it with all my facebook friends. Very clever.
That was awesome!
Sam, you’ve got a real talent. Keep using it.
just shared this with my coworkers, everyone is laughing. what fun, and only a guy could have made this! it was so good. hope to see more in the near future.
Wow. Wow. Hi-lar-i-ous! =)
Sam, you have been given a talent from the Lord. I can’t wait to see how He uses it for His glory! I’m sharing this on my FB page.
Great job!! Poor Nutcracker 🙂 Merry Christmas!
That was fantastic! Quite a talented son! Have a very Merry Christmas 🙂
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! since it’s on Youtube I would like to share it with our homeschool group. Merry Christmas
Great Job! I thought it was a link at first, until I read the words above the video.
That was so fun! Thanks for telling the Nutcrackers side of the story! Great humor and fantastic talent! Merry Christmas!
Great work! And very funny!
Ruble kids love it!
Wow! Wish we had that software as teenagers Todd!
Excellent work, Sam!
That was funny. This is the third time we’ve watched it.
loved it!!!!!!!!
too cool
Our family liked it. Especially our Dad!
I feel sorry for the poor fellow. but still enjoyed watching him!
WOW!!! Fantastic, so much fun to watch. A real treat!! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Fantastic—
I still can’t even post pictures on the internet!!
I loved it! It was hilarious!! Way to go Sam!
Merry Christmas!
That was fun!!! Thanks
Great job with this!
Very Clever!
Wonderful! Merry Christmas! Great Job, Sam!
Wow! That was fun! Keep it up Sam – I’ll be watching more of your videos, I’m sure!
Totally hilarious!! The Nutcracker’s stunts and facial expressions are a masterful mix of Wile E. Coyote and Inspector Clouseau’s boss-gone-bonkers. Thanks for sharing your creative talents with your internet family!
Awesome! We loved it.