Jacob is an award-winning and well-known sand animation artist. After the first time Jacob saw sand animation on the internet, he was totally fascinated and immediately started learning this art by himself. Prior to his first wedding anniversary, Jacob spent several nights and made a sand animation video for his wife as a surprise gift. The video was later posted on-line, and had over 30000 hits on the first day. Soon after that, a young man contacted Jacob to make a video for his wedding. Jacob