Golden Eagle Snatches Kid 

The students who made this are going to go far in their animation careers.

At first glance I thought it was real but through some digging it's actually just an animation. Props to the guy for making it look real.

Nice to know "oh shit" is multilingual.

Good job on the A in your class. XKCD for the win!

I give these guys a lot of props because they definitely payed a lot of attention to the detail in the camera quality in which they were able to integrate the 3d model smoothly.

Legends say that after some days that eagle picked up the same child again and they both are living happily since then....

That little kid needed some FREEDOM

coming back to this in 2023 man, i remember when i first watched this and thought it was real. You guys are amazing at animating can tell you really paid attention in this. good job!

I laughed my ass off when the music came on

Even though the vid is fake, a scenario like that is possible. An eagle that size can kill animals bigger than that kid.

Behold the power of video editing! Well done to all involved!

A fake video but surprisingly well done.

Nope, I'm a small person, and now I'm never going outside again. Thanks RU-vid

This is amazing! Well... Not the baby snatching but how you guys edit the video! =D Good job you guys!

The reason I know it's made for fun is the fact that the eagle stops really fast without flapping much and the wingpatterns are wrong. But in the rest of the animation I'd give it 5/5

I seriously would have believed it if they didn't add the chariots of fire music at the end.

The “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to RU-vid on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital Design.

That was some badass 3D animation! I legit thought it was real. xD

Fake. if you notice in the background there is a unicorn

Hawk: Heh heh heh heh... Looks like I'll be adding something PC to my menu! (Grabs toddler) Damn, this thing's heavy... (Notices his dad approaching) Uh-oh. (drops toddler)

Congratulations on being able to read the description! You deserve some kind of medal you know.

The baby needed some freedom

FYI, the eagle and the kid are both computer generated animation.

I know it's fake but when I first saw this years ago I was soooo upset! 🤦🏾‍♂️ I once saved a 4 yr old from a huge korso. I don't know where I got the strength from but I jumped that fence and threw dog around like a rag doll. I am so happy I did. Because I believe I save that kids life and his parents came out hysterical devastated we were all crying. They don't speak English but we are friends still. We hug, we have tea. And that was 17 yrs ago when I was a teen. Still friends 🤝🏾

You know, the thing about all these viral videos, is that people just "happen" to be randomly recording while something crazy but fake happens.

eagle says, TOWING CAPACITY, EXCEEDED !!!!

Thunderbirds are said to have picked up adults in Alaska and Washington state. Though rare. A woman dissapeared off of a mountain in Alaska shortly after a thunderbird sighting.

I held it together until the music hit. Omg I know I shouldn't be laughing this hard at this, but hot damn if this ain't the dammedest thing. 🤣

good mythical morning brought me here :)

A condor swooped down and snatched a lady's dog at a rest stop while he was still on a leash, whether fake or not, it's possible

This will give parents nightmares.

The stork wanted a refund but he had the flu, so he asked his friend to run the errands for him

Oh I see how this is fake; The kid doesn't cry even after being dropped by the eagle, hat still on the same way, only cries when the man with camera reaches him making noise. Those 3 students who made this video this deserve a 100% in that 3D exam.

It's Mr. Steal Yo Girl.

This video was actually made with CGI. There's a glitch in the wing at the start if you look closely and also the kid floats in midair for a while after being dropped if you look closely and pause it a lot.

Didn't know Anakin was into falconry

A few ppl are still unnecessarily thinking it's real. Makes me concerned what they might do to an eagle under this mistaken belief.

I don't know if it's fake or not (the baby looks fake to me), but, a Golden Eagle is an absolutely massive bird that could easily fly off with a 10lb kid. People need to respect this predator because it could happen to someone's kid. These eagles have been documented killing and flying off with deer. Some people even use them to hunt coyotes and wolves. They're no joke.

That kid drank some red bull

First part is so mean, but when 0:30 comes it's HILARIOUS!

I know it's fake but it looks so fucking real

yo that kid was the first to experience airtime without needing an airplane lol

yes I know this bird, it s the parc eagle, a subspecies(aquila parco), hunts overpopulated areas for little children, builds its nest on fairgroundattractions.

If it's fake it's a very good job, and I am speaking as a fairly good CGI artist. Someone would have had to do a lot of work to make that look so real. Why would they do that. Look at the way that the shadow of the bird comes in so perfectly, the picking up and dropping of the child, not to mention making the whole thing look as if it's been taken on a cameraphone.

That was extremely satisfying to watch for some reason.

When Chariots of Fire starts playing 😂😂😂

Considering that golden eagles are known to try and pick up things that are heavier than them, I'd say this video would've had me fooled back in the day.

You could be all proud and say it's FAKE...but I remember the first time I saw it I fell for it! And to think this went mega viral, is because millions of others did. This fake totally WON. The exposure it gave these guys.Damn. I remember showing my friends at work and we all thought it was real. Then I had to break the news and say it's fake! Haha...classic video this is.

fucking bird have sent us to the bottom of the food chain

so that’s where babies come from

The video may be fake but a golden eagle is definitely capable of carrying a toddler if it wanted to.

I am so glad that that child is okay! It was so close to a true tragedy!

Aw man too bad, it's a fake. I was hoping to find a bird big enough to take the wife...

Remember when this was all around the news

And the oscar for best sound effects in a short film goes to....

I know this is fake but good job, this is really, really, realistic.

Clever

Transcript for those curious: Fr-En « Hey, ton enfant est-il correct? » _”Hey, is your kid alright?”_ « Ah ouais, mais t’a vu ça là? » _”Oh yeah, but did you see that?”_ « Ah, ça va? Ah, non! » _”Hey, you ok? Oh, no!”_ « Hey, il est où là, où là…? » _”Hey, where is he, where is he (the hawk)?”_ *Enfant pleure* _Child cries_

I still cant believe that it's just an animation

Golden Eagle: that looks like a baby. Come here kid im gonna eat ya! Im bigger than you, im hiring a food chain. Get im my belly!! Come on! **Baby escapes** Also Eagle: you are a luckily Man.

If it wasn't a hoax, it would've been real.

Such impressive work even the news didn't realise that it was fake

The sound effect of the eagle always gets me 😂😂😂

While I am sorta envious of the enterprise to pull this off, I must add that I think it's bad for eagles because people may panic and do stoopid things (like hurt one needlessly) over the mistaken impression that an eagle can fly away with someone's kid. They can't. An eagle can only lift about half its weight at most and fly away. Sometimes eagles catch very large fish and cannot lift them out of the water; in such cases, they essentially swim to shore while not letting go.

Guys its fake, it was an assignment for some Canadian film students.

I can't believe this is more than a decade old, I remember when I first watched it on =3

I only watched this on =3, so I was pleasantly surprised to know that the music was actually from the original video lol

Well, it fooled me.

imagine when the eagle eat the kid alive up in the tree

There are many tiny clues that this was computer generated, if you are knowledge about that kind of stuff. But the thing that tipped me off was the eagle's hunting behavior. When taking down prey larger than it's self, golden eagles don't try to fly away with it, instead they crush the spine of the animal with their massive claws. Actually they try to do this regardless, but even more so for the larger animals. They'll even fight on the ground if they miss the first time, rolling around with their quarry. They do this with freaking coyotes, and if food is scarce enough, farm animals and deer.

Super animation bien joué ^^

I can’t be the only one who wanted the eagle to fly away with him right¿?

Song name is Darude Sandstorm

Closest we'll ever get to a video of a Thunderbird...

Great animation, looks so real without careful analysis.

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Golden Eagle: Wild wingspan 8 ft., Domesticated wingspan 9 ft. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!

when the child's neighbours don't believe he can fly ..

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Poor baby... Good thing Eagle realized he was too heavy and dropped him. I have literally (no joke whatsoever) seen a bald eagle pick up a Chihuahua and carry him away for probably 200 feet before dropping and injuring him. It was so sad. They will eat anything that they think they can carry away. They usually catch mice and rats and such though. NOT KIDS! People don't realize it, but I have seen a dead eagle adult up close. They are HUGE and have great big talons that are used to easily grip and hold onto prey. Even slippery stuff like fish. Alaskan Eagles pick up and fly away with 10 pound salmon easily in my home state of Alaska. They literally could pick up a toddler like that if they thought that they were edible prey. (which thy probably could be... sadly)

Every parent's worst nightmare...animated (great job)

The baby positioned himself for the fall perfectly.

awww i thought they were gonna kill the baby

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If the kid were half as young, it might have been lifted into the higher sky

WHY IS IRON MAN YELLING AT ME.

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why it this a fake?

Other birds of pray: You can't really mess with humans they'll hunt you down... CGI Golden eagle : Hold my beer!

Gotta say, I have known this was fake for years, but still watch it, because it is so good.

Canadian French sounds so funny

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I remember seeing this at news like 11 years ago and my mom yelled ''WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE CAMERA?!?''

Amazing that people thought this was real. The bird stayed in the same angle the entire time

learn to monetize a video. could have earned a couple of thousand bucks with 40 mil views

Fake. If you notice when the eagle lets go the child is hovering

This is one of the reasons I want to understand what animals are thinking

Just one thing : this is not real. This is the final project of a student. Great FX from this guy !!! Juste une chose : ce n'est pas une vraie scène. C'est juste le projet de fin d'année d'un étudiant en cinéma. Superbes effets spéciaux mec !!!

I called this video out as a fake the second I saw it... It was supposedly shot on Mont Royal in Montreal, the weather clearly indicates that this was shot in mid fall but the footage was only released on Dec 18th. It’s an obvious fake for this reason alone. A stunning piece of viral footage would have most certainly been uploaded immediately, not 2 months later. There is no snow on the ground and the grass is still relatively green. There were no reports describing the event in the media at all prior to the RU-vid release date. The video editing is excellent but not perfect; there is a noticeable speed envelope mismatch in the flight of the eagle when it swoops around in the approaching arc. Its brief, but noticeable to a trained eye. If the creators had pushed the release date to the following autumn it would have lent much more credibility to the footage.