Okay, big food brands – here’s your free product idea of the day…. dog gum. Huge, huge idea. Cuz apparently dogs should be chewing every waking hour of the day, a fact I learned in this new TV spot for Gnawin’ Forever, the long-lasting dog snack. The stylish stop-motion was created by Bent Image Lab, and the dog gum idea was created by me. Pay up, Purina!

Kirsten Lepore’s latest work was produced for Yo Gabba Gabba!, the hit show on Nick Jr. It’s a perfect lead-in to the Christmas weekend. Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks for joining us in 2011, and here’s to an amazing 2012!

Paris-based artist Steven Briand is either a wizard with the ability to conjure objects, or he’s really good at animation. I’m going to leave that one for you to decide. Here’s his new short, Proteigon, which he produced during an internship at Partizan.

Around the :17 second mark of this new CollegeHumor holiday short, your eyes will get christmas presents in the form of stop-motion animation. Buddy System Studios wrapped those gifts, while LowBrow Studios dropped in a few bits of Flash animation for good measure. Here’s Your Six Christmas Movies, which was written by Ben Joseph:

ParaNorman has risen from beneath the soil to haunty your Monday grind. Here’s the first full trailer for the upcoming Laika feature that hits theaters in August 2012.

The other night on SyFy, the entire cast of Eureka were transformed into animated versions of themselves for a Christmas special. Curious Pictures handled the design and animation, which reportedly spanned the gamut of styles, from anime, CG, traditional 2D and stop-motion, which you can see in the clip below:

Following up on the pilot episode launched this summer, College Humor has revealed the 2nd installment of Dinosaur Office. As with the original episode, the gang at Buddy System Studios put their stop-motion stink on this one.