"The Steadfast Tin Soldier"
Piano Conceto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102

Composed by Dmitri Shostakovich
Animation Director: Hendel Butoy
Art Director: Michael Humphries
CGI: Steve Goldberg
Story: Hans Christian Anderson

The music, "Piano Concerto No. 2" by Dmitri Shostakovich, the story, Hans Christian Anderson's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier." The story is based on three major characters: a Tin Soldiers, a Ballerina, and a Jack-in-the-Box. A one-legged toy soldier is rejected by his fellow soldiers and discovers a ballerina dancing on one foot, but discovers that she really has two legs. Thinking she too would reject him for being different, finds that she has fell in love with him. Meanwhile, an evil Jack-in-the-Box is in love with the Ballerina, but she is not love with him. So to push them away from each other, the Jack-in-the-Box washes the soldier out to sea and tries to win the Balleria's love. This segment is a combination of Computer Generated Images with hand-drawn animation.