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It has become tradition for our family to make a Christmas Video in lieu of sending out Christmas cards. This is our third year doing so.

See 2008 here:
vimeo.com/2400199

See 2009 here:
vimeo.com/7935720

This video was made exclusively with the Canon T2i, using the stock lens {18-55}. Because we experimented with stop motion & photo motion, over 6000 photos were taken during the course of making the film.

While our Christmas Videos started out as a means of saying Merry Christmas to family and friends, it's been vastly rewarding to have such a positive response from everyone here on Vimeo. Thanks and hope you enjoy!


Music: Here Comes Santa Claus - Doris Day

Read about the making of this video here:
melancholysmile.blogspot.com/2010/12/behind-scenes.html
  • Great job once again man! Merry Christmas!
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  • VideoBuilders pro 1 year ago
    All I can say to that is WOW. You and your family are very talented. Thanks for sharing. I will definitely be sending this to some people. Amazing job. Merry Christmas!
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  • Thury Foster plus 1 year ago
    Unbelievable! I have no idea how you made that video. It looked incredibly time consuming but the end product is a masterpiece. Bravo!
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  • VideoBuilders pro 1 year ago
    One day, someone is going to pay you to do their family Christmas video. ;)
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  • Dacy Nottingham plus 1 year ago
    Great job as always. Thanks for sharing. :)
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  • Shoot Me Films plus 1 year ago
    (this is from lucinda btw, not nate)--OH MY GOSH, that was unbelievable!! totally amazing. you have to enter that into something. it was just more than words. :) p.s. natasia: woot-woot!
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  • dewde plus 1 year ago
    I smiled the whole time.

    peace | dewde
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  • Trin plus 1 year ago
    Awesome! What did you do for lights? Looked great!
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  • Jon Bryant plus 1 year ago
    Brillant, as usual Jared. Stop motion was excellent throughout. Well done!
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  • Steve McGowan 1 year ago
    this is brilliant, nice feel and nicely filmed
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  • Viperos 1 year ago
    Jared, what would Christmass be without Your Family Christmass greeting? We waited for this for some time, and here it is, and we watched it with our whole family (3 so far). Very very veeery amusing and smile making. Thank You for sharing. Merry Christmass.
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  • emeric plus 1 year ago
    Great work Jared ! Great stop motion and ideas, well done to the whole family ;-)
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  • rick fiduccia plus 1 year ago
    Now it's official - Christmas is ON!

    Excellent as always Jared. Love the stop motion on the candy canes.
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  • dibbv 1 year ago
    Nice video, so what's the deal with the wall? Did you paint that or is it some kind of giant chalk board??
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    Yes. My wife painted the wall in craft paint. She has plans to repaint the wall another color after the holidays. In the meantime we have this mural for the holiday season.
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    Awesome, as always Jared. Your Christmas videos are a staple video that I look forward to every year! Love all the great stop mo, this was so good.
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  • Ben 1 year ago
    Creative Christmas Greeting. Beautiful made! (added to HDTime channel)
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  • kiki 1 year ago
    SO CUTE....So Loved ittttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Cédric Poitras plus 1 year ago
    This is nice Jared ! Happy Holiday !
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  • Ryan Gully plus 1 year ago
    Good form, my man. Your Christmas Greeting vids are always so great.
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  • Jesse Springer plus 1 year ago
    Awesome work.
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  • Eddie Johnson 1 year ago
    Very cool. Merry Christmas
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  • Lynn Mercurio 1 year ago
    Now THAT'S a Christmas greeting!!!
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  • Adam Johansson 1 year ago
    haha, thanks for sharing!
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  • Jana Julian 1 year ago
    Aw, so lovely! Stop motion rocks...!! :-)
    Like your other work aswell, very nice.

    Greetings from Sweden!
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  • Noushin Nourizadeh 1 year ago
    Short and Sweet! I really enjoyed it
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  • Worawut Tham 1 year ago
    Lovely!!
    Merry Christmas...
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  • Marco La Nave 1 year ago
    Nice job!
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  • Rob Potvin plus 1 year ago
    Awesome! Merry Christmas mate, video rocked!
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  • Kiss Vivien 1 year ago
    theyre soo cuuuute! lovely!
    merry xmas for everyone! : )
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  • Nigel Lewis 1 year ago
    I found your video by chance and was so ooo impressed what a brilliant way to involve and evolve your family and share your love. A huge well done !
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  • Atomic Greetings 1 year ago
    WOW! What a great video. Lot's of hard work done there, but much appreciated by the staff here at Atomic Greetings. We all enjoyed it.
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  • WACOAN plus 1 year ago
    Awesome video. Our whole family watched in amazement.
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  • Laurent Gauthier 1 year ago
    All the magic of Christmas!
    Merry Xmas, Joyeux Noël!
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  • Luis Poveda plus 1 year ago
    LOVE IT! My kids have played this video more times than Toy Story 3!.
    Happy Christmas
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  • Cheryl L plus 1 year ago
    Wonderful! A talented family!
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  • Thad Manning 1 year ago
    Now I know it's Christmas time! I look forward to your video every year. Thanks!
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  • Kalle Jaeck 1 year ago
    wonderful
    Happy Holiday
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  • Jake Myers 1 year ago
    This is like Michel Gondry making an ad for target. Accessible as hell while still being creative and fresh. Hard to do!
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  • Another stellar Christmas greeting Jared! I love the chalkboard wall.
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    Funny thing is that is not chalk. My wife plans to repaint that wall after the holidays. She's ready for a new color and good excuse for use to the wall for our set.
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  • catherine lucas plus 1 year ago
    Accidently stumbled upon this video. Great stuff... I am a nana who does not get to see her grand daughter because DIL hates me with a passion. To see your family perform and sing and laugh is the true spirit of Christmas. Love the baby Santa... So wonderfully done! Thanks for sharing with us...
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  • tom j. langlet 1 year ago
    Magnifique.
    Joli travail, great video.
    it makes people happy!
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  • Greg Smith 1 year ago
    I like to :]

    Waiting for more videos. Have a great Christmas Jared and all your family!!!!

    Regards
    Luke
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    I'm confused. Your Vimeo name is Greg Smith but you sign your comments from Luke? That makes me smile.
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  • Richard Holdman 1 year ago
    Good Job! Loved it!
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  • Buckshot Pictures 1 year ago
    Nice work!
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  • Lisa Wu plus 1 year ago
    so awesome
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  • Jan van Egmond 1 year ago
    very, very nice! and a merry christmas ;)
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  • Boxer Design plus 1 year ago
    Good work again, very nice feel to this film.
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  • Lorene Amet plus 1 year ago
    Wow!!! I love your work! And so refreshing to see everyone in the family involved!!! Big cheers to all and Merry Xmas!
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  • Linda Alex 1 year ago
    This is absolutely incredible! I love the idea, the actors:), the result! This is the best card I have seen! Merry Xmas!
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  • martha ander 1 year ago
    I love it and the music is right on spot,multi media parcel.
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  • Rompolmedia 1 year ago
    wonderful... just wonderful. you have a beautiful family (all great actors)... Good job!
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  • Dave Geyer 1 year ago
    seriously, just watched all your holiday vids and they are so freakin' fantastic. Thanks and Happy Holidays.
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  • Rafa Muñoz 1 year ago
    Espectacular. Enhorabuena!!!!
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  • Julie Frye Sanders 1 year ago
    you're incredible! i just watched many of your videos - and wow, you do exactly what i want to do with all of my family videos - but a million times better than i could ever imagine doing them.... you're family is beautiful too... so beautiful video/photo/post production plus beautiful subjects = absolutely beautiful videos!!!!!!
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    I too watched your videos and you are doing just fine! Your twins are great. I like the expressions of the snow falling. So innocent. Keep up the good work and come to vimeo often for inspiration. That's what I do.
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  • Zack Olson 1 year ago
    I love your Christmas cards! what programs do you use for editing/post production/special effects?
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    I use Final Cut Pro to edit but the real effects of this video are done with the camera. The effect is stop motion. Take a picture, move the candy cane, take another picture, move the candy cane, ect. The Candy cane scene took 3 hours to animate but is only 6 seconds long in the video. You can do this with any camera.
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  • Zack Olson 1 year ago
    Thanks for the quick reply! I am just getting used to the Final Cut Studio Suite. My wife and I LOVE your Christmas cards. We want to create one of our own similar to your card from last year. We laughed our heads off that you did the lip syncing with the baby!!!

    Merry Christmas!!!
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  • Gary Parkin 1 year ago
    That was truly cool! It inspired me too. I got this nice video camera last Christmas and never did much with it. Now I think I will.

    Truly a nice music video Jared!!

    Gary
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  • Gary Parkin 1 year ago
    I just sent the link to all my friends to enjoy too.
    And I loved your "making of", almost as much as the actual video.
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  • bob milano 1 year ago
    What a great idea. Your whole family does such a great job. How do you write the story...or do you just "do it?
    Thanks for sharing. Loved it.
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    There is a whole process to these videos. I suspect I will eventually get around to a "making of" video but simply we as a family pick a song. Once the song is chosen the lyrics help us brainstorm more ideas for scenes. We gather all the props and shoot the day after thanksgiving all weekend. I never storyboard but we do have concepts written to help remind us of our ideas. Many new ideas come as we begin shooting and I always allow that. That is the creative part for me. I watch many other Vimeo videos for inspiration.
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  • Brian Quick 1 year ago
    amazing video! I selected your video on my blog [ clipquick.blogspot.com/2010/12/here-comes-santa-claus.html ] Congratulations! and Merry Christmas!!! ^ ^
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for the feature on your blog. I love using google translate to see what everyone is saying and I really appreciate the comments.
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  • Tijmen Kuipers plus 1 year ago
    Great idea, we didn't write any christmas greeting card this year.

    We also produced a video with handpuppets:
    vimeo.com/17951603

    Merry Christmas
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    Nice handpuppets! I was surprised how simple they look but how difficult they were to control. I can't imagine a whole set and video dedicated to this. You are very brave. Thanks for sharing.
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  • Jon Forsyth 1 year ago
    Very cool! I tried a Christmas video this year as well (vimeo.com/18222115). Yours has given me a lot of ideas for next year.
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    Nice work Jon and thanks for sharing. That is the next step for me is writing original music. With your talent and family it looks like you will ready for next year. Have fun!
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  • Caleb Farley 1 year ago
    Very creative, you did a great job adding stop motion in. Just wondered how the 550D did with the photos. I read that its good for video but not the best for photos is that true?
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    Hello Caleb, Thanks for your comments and questions. I am very pleased with the images that I get from my T2i however I use it mainly for my personal/family use. I suppose if I made a living on photography I might invest in a more robust camera. I do however use this camera for 2nd camera in my video shoots and I do get paid for that. It is an awesome camera for the price.
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  • SarahQ plus 1 year ago
    Finally checked in over here for the first time in ages and yours was the first profile I went to. Your videos always make me smile! LOVE this one! Merry Christmas to you and your super cute family :) XOXO
  • Jared Foster plus 1 year ago
    I am so honored by your comments. Thank you and happy new year! I too am a fan of your work.
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  • Jan Fröjdman plus 1 year ago
    What a positive feeling!! Thank you.
    I tried my very best making my Christmas card with some positive stills from a very wintry Finland.
    Well, this was a little late post on Vimeo (I shared it by FTP with my friends earlier), but this was my first post on Vimeo ever.
    Please look at: vimeo.com/18584973
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  • Ming Ming 1 year ago
    I love it!!!
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  • Steve Witt 10 months ago
    This is completely brilliant!!! You are one of the true artists on this website....thankyou for sharing.
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  • Luis Poveda plus 2 months ago
    My kids asked me this morning... "can we see the santa claus video?" - they just love it.
    Is there a new one this year?
  • Jared Foster plus 2 months ago
    We shot it this past weekend and were almost ready to share it. Stay tune soon!
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