Why does the holiday season have to be so damn cheery all the time? People singing, giving eachother crap…. why can’t it be dark and disturbing, like this Christmas animation from Cyriak? Oh, I know – because it will freak you the f&@k out! Cyriak, thank you for crushing the child inside me and for giving young Aaron a rotting skull in his stocking.
The talented gang at London’s Bird Box Studio have delivered one of the more inventive and engaging holiday animations I’ve ever seen. It starts off rather unassuming, but stick with it, put a sweater on and get yer clicking finger ready for some action. Here’s Singing Christmas Hedgehogs (after you hit one of the onscreen buttons, you’ll have to click the play button again):
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:
The talented folks at Bent Image Lab have teamed up with the search engine Bing to create a sack full of holiday-themed TV spots. They all lean on the arsenal of Rankin-Bass characters many of us grew up watching during the holiday break. Here’s two of the spots:
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ABC’s 2009 holiday special Prep & Landing performed well for the network, notching a 5.8 rating, and then at awards time, the half-hour piece snagged an Annie award and a number of Emmys. So it should come as no surprise that ABC is rolling out a sequel, titled Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice. On December 5th, ABC brings back Wayne and Lanny, who are tasked with yet again saving Christmas. Here’s a trailer for the film Kevin Deters wrote and directed.
Nicos Livesey, Azusa Nakagawa, Joseph Pelling and Becky Sloan directed this short stop-motion Christmas card for London-based Sherbet.
Christmas is a time for sharing, friendship and gifts. But over on Robot Chicken, it’s a time for Santa to crack some skulls with a bat. Sorta similiar, no? This Sunday at 11:30pm on Adult Swim you’ll see the all-new episode – Robot Chicken’s DP Christmas Special.
