holy schnikes!! that's amazing!! phenom...

I saw that yesterday. He's so good it is almost to hard for me to beleive it is really him. AMAZING!

Thats just mind blowing. A beautiful thing !

Hm, assuming this isn't a bit of video prestidigitation, which I don't, most people have to go to art school to learn how to draw/paint like that. The way that he was working all over the picture instead of dwelling on one part at a time as most children do was pretty amazing, as was the bit of darkening that he did by layering the paint towards the end.

Hm ... I'd prefer to believe that this is real, but several aspects of the video make me a bit suspicious. If it's real, the little dude is a bit of a prodigy.

The 'montage' effect near the end of the video is what ruined it for me.

I can belive the kid started it off and had a LOT to do with the final piece, but there had to be some outer interferience between point A and B.

maybe not, but my buddie won the craola coloring contest in like '85 and he still cant do this shit.

Someone is holding his elbow. Notice there is no full shot of him puting down any of the form, just poking some color in random spots.

I noticed you don't get to see much of him laying down paint from a wide shot. All close up time lapse style. Suspicious, but I hope it's real. Amazing if so.

Exactly. I watched it again and am almost certain it's a clever and entertaining hoax. Not so much because the kid appears to be so good, but because of the techniques used to accomplish the finished product and because of the evasive camera, as you noted. That's art school stuff, not childish intuition. There are child art prodigies to be sure. I knew one when I was a boy, my bud Craig Hayes, now a VIP in the special effects realm in cinema. He was an exceptional artist even at the age of ten, with no formal training, but this three-year-old's alleged work does appear to be the result of someone else's trained art skills. I'd love to be wrong about that though!

no way man... it's real

you guys are way too cynical.

you gotta BELIEVE!!!

I like your attitude Kirkland.

I believe it too!

Even if there was someone holding his elbow, the kids fingers are still laying down the paint and determining how much value is being applied.

Amazing kid, makes me a bit envious!

i liked my drawings of Ninja Rabbit as a kid better

Send him a toy, Im sure he will do a bang up job!

Plus the painting looks way too glossy at the end. I want to believe but the fact that it's hosted on an advertising website (http://turtlekid.com/) along with other movies trying to look like home videos makes me suspicious.

I'm an art teacher. that was not real. I'm pretty sure. and it if was he has been trained to paint that way. that kind of methodical style is reminicent of certain types of savants but they usually paint what they see in a realistic but semi stylised way. If he was using the toy as his subject, which was inferred in the video, you'll notice that the painting was representative of a more "life-like" tmnt, mask flying in the breeze!?

or maybe I'm just jealous my turtles don't look that good.

100% fake, pure marketing by Playmates.

Ninja Turtles was probably one of the first thing that got my doodling when I was young.